I bought the escape phev in May. It's paying for itself over my gas guzzlers. I added a banks pedal monster and it really makes a huge difference in the available power in all electric operation. I'm a lead foot and averaging 93mpg. My 60 mile work commute is all electric and we still have gas for visiting distant family regularly.
I have 130,000 miles on a CMAX. Basically it’s a Escape Phev before they called them Escape. Since new I’m getting 51.9 mpg. That’s living in Canada where mileage is effected by the cold. So about 4.5 litres per 100km. I would think the Escape would get about the same. In a gas model, you wouldn’t get 30mpg. It’s a huge savings.
I've had my Escape hybrid for 32 months and save 1 fill up every month compared to my previous Subaru Crosstrek. So about $750 or so. And the ICE only runs about 30% of the time saving much wear and tear over time.
I heard that if you put mandatory EV and then if you have to accelerate to overtake, then a pop-up comes on the screen that you are leaving the EV mode is that correct?
@@amitgota The Volt is 100% electric drive with a generator under the hood to maintain the batteries. The generator will kick on when the weather is cold and when the battery is draining fast but the car is always moving due to the electric motor. If the battery is draining too fast due to cold weather or based on some programming algorithm, the electric motor is much slower than normal which can be frustrating.
@@amitgota I believe (from other videos I've seen) it gives you a pop up that asks if you want to enable the gas engine for more power, and you press "OK" on the wheel to do so
Had one for 3 weeks. Averaging 3L per 100 km over 1600 km. Half is highway driving of about 120 km trips. 5x better than my MDX. So 48 litres consumption vs 240L. I figure I will save $3k per year in gas
my gf and i have 2x 13 year old chevy volts which are the og phevs. we got them 2nd hand about 1 yr ago for about 7.5k usd each (7+8) and we drive a lot, im a medical student and i have rural rotations all over the state of WA, and she commutes about 100mi/day to and from work at another hospital. nearly all hospitals have free plugs here in wa, and i put a 240v charger in the garage for about 100$. This last year I have driven 35,000 miles (56,000 km) and averaged about 110mpg (2.14 l/100 km). ive saved about 3k in gas over my last car in this time period. she has done about 20kmiles this last year too, and saved another ~2k usd. that means in a few more months, one of the cars will have paid for themselves. the chevy volt gets around 35mi range, but i upgraded mine and it gets around 45-55mi now (72-88km). expanded the battery pack by 4kwh (350$) and added 200w of solar to the roof (85$). when my car is fully charged now I plug the house into the solar panels which cuts about 1.3kwh/mo off my bill. because about half the charging we do is free, the solar panels offset about 1/3rd of the electricity to drive, and also give me a range boost every day. when youre offsetting the price of gas here at ~4.50$/gal, it pays for itself extremely quickly. i did the math and the price of gas here is basically the same as California utility, ~$0.50/kwh. so far 1 year down and no repairs. breaks and tires still look well over 50%. if you want a phev and u actually want to save money, i would strongly consider looking at an early model chevy volt in a coastal city since their batteries basically last for 500k miles without any noticeable degradation. the battery in them is almost twice the size as the ford escape phev lol
My wife goes 18 miles to work and puts gas in it less than once a month . Our escape is rated for 37 miles a charge and at 12 cents a kw it cost us about $1.68 to charge and Duke gives us a $10 a month discount with a level 2 charger off peak .
I originally wanted the RAV4 Prime so bad and searched everywhere and gave up finally, saddened. I then got this car, and to be honest, the more I compare the two, the more I feel like I may have gotten the better car; there's no doubt it's considerably more efficient: it stops in shorter braking distance as tested by car reviewers, it gets nearly the same range in real world testing in EV mode, and yet it has WAY better fuel economy when driven as hybrid, especially at highway speeds
At 2:39 you show this little mechanical door guard that extends when the door is opened and retracts when the door is closed. I thought this was very cool and would be very useful. This is the first I've heard of it, so do you know if this is an Australian exclusive or is this present on the US models?
3.5 hours would be from 0 to 100; I doubt you'd take it down to 0; I think he's meaning that if you just drive one way to work like 20 miles, then yeah, that'll charge in 2 hours
Hi Paul. Thanks for your comments making sure we are being safe. At 30 seconds, the car is travelling at 80-85 kph, Jerry is wearing a seatbelt. The colour of the seatbelt matches his shirt and is hard to distinguish. The footage was filmed by the passenger who also was wearing a seatbelt.
