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41-mpg Ford Escape Hybrid named Top Safety Pick

Green Car Reports

The Ford Escape lineup has improved on multiple fronts this year—and not just with the return of the far more fuel-efficient Escape Hybrid. The 2020 Escape lineup was rated earlier this month by the IIHS as a Top Safety Pick. The IIHS confirmed to Green Car.

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Ford Escape mpg, Lincoln plug-in miles, Taycan 4S driven: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

Fuel economy ratings are out for the Ford Escape Hybrid, and it’s a tick ahead of the RAV4 Hybrid. This and more, today at Green Car Reports. Lincoln’s first plug-in vehicle is rated for range. GM adds diesel to the Suburban and Tahoe. And we take the Porsche Taycan to California canyons and the cold Arctic.

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Tension over MPG, Ford Escape Hybrid, all about the Porsche Taycan: The Week in Reverse

Green Car Reports

What electric car, formerly called the Mission E concept, made its debut this past week? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending September 6, 2019. Where are there many fuel-cell vehicles but not enough hydrogen to keep them filled?

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

The Truth About Cars

Ford launched the Escape Hybrid as a 2005 model (its Mercury Mariner and Mazda Tribute siblings showed up a bit later), so The General had some catching up to do in the green-car department. liter engine and automatic).

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Ford doubles electric drive market share in US from 2012 to 2013; surging with plug-in hybrids

Green Car Congress

2012 was something of a transition year for Ford with its electric drive vehicles; the venerable Escape Hybrid was phasing out, while only the new Fusion Hybrid and the MKZ Hybrid had a full year of sales. But for the first nine months of 2013, Ford’s sales of conventional hybrids (Fusion, C-MAX and MKZ) zoomed to 58,262 units, or 14.9%

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The Fusion and Escape list Ford’s hybrids in Kelley Blue Brook’s “Top 10 Green Cars”

Green Cars News

Kelley Blue Book have today named the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid and 2009 Ford Escape Hybrid in its 2009 list of the “Top 10 Green Cars.”. Nerad says fuel economy was just one of the factors editors of Kelley Blue Book took into consideration when selecting this year’s list of “Top 10 Green Cars.”.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Were a group of entrepreneurs, engineers, environmentalists and consumers promoting high-efficiency, low-emission cars and harnessing buyer demand to help commercialize plug-in hybrids. Formed in 2002, our efforts for "100+MPG Hybrids" took off when we built PRIUS+ , the worlds first plug-in Prius).

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