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I bought a 2007 FWD Escape Hybrid last week. I have 260 miles on it so far and geting an avg.mpg of 35.4 That is all city miles / no hwy miles. The top speed in battery mode so far is just under 35MPH I can go about a mile in battery mode B4 the motor kicks in to re-charge 
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My 2007 4wd Hybrid Escape is a little less than two months old. Where I can drive on battery I do. On a 30 minute trip from my house to a building in Pittsburgh I was able to get 44 mpg according to the dash board readout. Two weeks ago I drove from Pittsburgh to DC and back with a little city driving. The average for the trip was 30.2 mpg. I just completed a trip Pittsburgh -> Blacksburg VA -> Wilmington NC -> DC -> Baltimore -> Pittsburgh. It was a lot of miles over a few days. I had the air-conditioning on for the entire trip. The average was 29.4 for most of the trip. The hills of West Virginia were not kind to the gas usage. The final report was almost 30. If I had not needed the air on, the average usage would have been higher. I have not had brake problems reported on this mailing list. With close to 4000 miles in under two months, I am happy with the vehicle.
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We too are only getting about 27 mpg in town. It should be around 33(4wd). I also drove on the highway about 2 1/2 hours and the mileage was only 25. It seems very hard to push on the gas easy enough to keep it on the battery. Is there something we are not doing?
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Replying to: cchurch (Aug 29, 2006 8:04 am) You won't ever get the EPA sticker numbers over the long term. You can get varying numbers over repeated trips on the same roads based on changing: Driving Habits - Accelerating, Braking, Cruising Speed,etc. Weather - Extreme temps, use of A/C Traffic - congestion, speeding Consider the following tricks to improve mpg: No jack-rabbit starts. You don't have to strain your leg to keep the truck in EV mode...as long as you limit the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) under or close to 2000 rpm as much as possible. Switch between L and D on the stick shift when it is advantageous - this will take some practice to discern when it is helpful to use the two different computer algorithms (there is no high or low gear range in an ECVT) You can feel the regenerative brake motor/generator drag the vehicle in L range but L will also let you engage EV mode up to 40 mph or so. In D mode, start braking as early as possible to engage the regen brakes. Think of the brake pedal as a switch that turns on the regen brake as soon as you put the lightest touch on the pedal and then increase pressure only as needed to be safe. Some folks report inflating their tires to 45psi or greater (sounds too harsh to me). Lots of other ideas in some of these hybrid forums. Remember to reset your mpg calculator frequently to monitor what types of roads and driving give you the best average. I have seen fluctuations of 5-6 mpg over the same roads. It may take a few weeks to learn what works best. I have had mine for only 6 months and I am saving a minimum of 10 mpg over my old 4-cylinder Isuzu Trooper. Enjoy.
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Replying to: mecheng1 (Aug 29, 2006 9:10 am)
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Replying to: dehart (Aug 05, 2006 7:32 am) I have a 2006 FWD Escape HEV with 7349 on the odometer... I consistently get better than 33 mpg, and just got back from the long weekend trip from Detroit to West Virginia... had the air conditioner on during the trip down and got stuck in one traffic jam that was bad enough that I ran out of battery power and the engine came back on... didn't go to any extremes like turning the engine off, still got over 32 on that part of the trip. My last 3-tank average of gas station receipts is 33.9 mpg, and I was frequently reading over 35 mpg on the 15 minute running average on the GPS console. I wasn't going that slow, either, I was doing the speed limit, which ranged from 55-70 mph, mostly using cruise control. I just read a good article on hybridcars.com about maximizing mileage which has some advanced techniques I'm looking forward to trying... google for "An SUV that gets 45 mpg" to find it. |
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Replying to: ekiehn (Sep 02, 2006 7:21 pm)
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Replying to: mecheng1 (Aug 29, 2006 9:10 am) I do have a couple of complaints: 1) I never know when I'm in 2 or 4 wheel mode, nothing on dash tells me (though I can feel the difference by the 'seat of my pants'); 2) my wife complains the passenger side mirror has no light in it! (she uses it more than me the driver) another Ford 'better idea'? 
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Replying to: cchurch (Sep 05, 2006 10:35 am)
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Replying to: escapehev (Sep 06, 2006 1:19 pm)
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