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Review update: 2021 Honda CR-V Hybrid is 38-mpg mainstream green

Green Car Reports

The Honda CR-V Hybrid is a quiet giant in the grand shift that’s happening in the auto industry. Yes, you might still be able to get non-hybrid versions of the Honda CR-V, or its rivals like the Toyota RAV4, Hyundai Tucson, or Ford Escape, but each year the portion of these that are selling as hybrids becomes a little larger.

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Ford Escape with EcoBoost Engine EPA-rated at 33 mpg highway

Green Car Congress

The new Ford Escape’s 1.6-liter liter EcoBoost engine has earned an EPA fuel economy rating of 33 mpg US (7.13 l/100 km) on the highway cycle—2 mpg better than the Honda CR-V and 5 mpg better than Toyota RAV4. Offered for the first time in North America, the engine delivers 23 mpg US (10.2

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Road Test: 2022 Ford Escape PHEV Titanium FWD

Clean Fleet Report

Escaping High Fuel Prices; a Natural Bridge to an EV. The 2022 Ford Escape Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) is powered by a 2.5-liter With a plug-in option the Escape can drive all-electric (for more than 40 miles we found). Note: The Escape PHEV is rated by the EPA to have 37 miles of all-electric driving range.

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2022 Hyundai Tucson Plug-In Hybrid aiming for 28 miles electric range, Hybrid for 37 mpg

Green Car Reports

specifications and availability for the hybrid and plug-in hybrid versions of the expressively styled, somewhat larger 2022 Tucson compact SUV lineup Set to rival the Honda CR-V Hybrid, Ford Escape Hybrid, Toyota RAV4 Hybrid, and RAV4 Prime plug-in hybrid, the 2022 Hyundai Tucson models will offer a.

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Consumer Reports testing finds many small turbo engines underperforming; fuel economy, acceleration no better than in larger conventional powertrains

Green Car Congress

As another example, in December, Consumer Reports road testing found the fuel economy on the 2013 Fusion Hybrid sedan and new C-Max Hybrid falling far short below Ford (and EPA) triple 47 mpg (5.0 47 mpg for city, highway and combined—for both vehicles. The Hyundai Sonata Turbo, Kia Sportage Turbo, and Ford Escape 2.0T

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

The Truth About Cars

Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. 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.

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Cash for Clunkers By the Numbers

Green Car Congress

mpg and the average fuel economy of vehicles purchased is 24.9 mpg: a 58% improvement. Honda came in fourth at 13.0%. Honda Civic. Honda Accord. Ford Escape FWD. Eighty-four percent of consumers traded in trucks and 59% purchased passenger cars. The average fuel economy of the vehicles traded in was 15.8