Hybrid Trucks – Ford Escape Hybrid
Hybrid vehicles have been getting more popularity as the price of gas goes up. Typically if you want to get better gas mileage, you would have to get a smaller vehicle. That is no longer the case with the hybrid trucks that are on the market now.
One of the bigger hybrid trucks that is available is the Ford Escape. The Ford Escape hybrid is just like the conventional, so much so you really know the difference unless you were to open the hood. Both of them have a V6, 200hp engine. The biggest difference is that the hybrid is able to get 40 miles per gallon, which means that it can go five hundred miles between fill ups.
If you think that you wouldn’t be able to afford a Ford Escape Hybrid, think again, The price difference between the Ford Escape Hybrid and the conventional Escape is roughly $3,500. MSRP: $26,970 (FWD) and $28,595 (4WD Warranty: 3yrs/36,000 miles overall and 8 years/100,000 miles on Hybrid components. _z_trucks_z_);
It was wise of Ford to go ahead and choose it’s more popular model to make the first of the new breed of hybrids. The Escape uses what is known as a “full” hybrid drive system, which was developed for the Toyota Prius. It basically an electric car with a gasoline engine back up.
As you make your errands around town, the Ford Escape runs entirely on electric power. As you decelerate and when you use the brakes, the battery recharges itself.
Other than the hybrid drive, the vehicle is a conventional Ford Escape XLT with either FWD or 4WD. If you go ahead and take a test drive of both of the vehicles, you wouldn’t notice any difference and that includes the sounds of the engines. There is a slight pitch between the two, but most people wouldn’t even be aware of it.
The Ford Escape Hybrid are being assembled in the same plant as the conventional Escape. Located in Kansas City, Missouri.
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