Ford Escape News

The dirty little secrets of Top 10 lists are in the methodology, as Forbes found out with its weirdly inaccurate "10 Dirtiest Cars" list. (It's the end of the year, so it's time for a lot of Top 10s.) But we see no such problems in the EPA Green Vehicle Guide, which rates vehicles not only on...

The Ford Escape compact sport utility, including its hybrid model, is now long in the tooth or beyond. It was first introduced as a 2001  model, and has been restyled twice. It still sells well, though, and Ford continues to update the hybrid model. Nonetheless, it's overdue for replacement. Now...

Nissan has made a bigger bet on electric cars than any other automaker, with plans to launch its 2012 Leaf electric car globally. But if electric cars are the future of green vehicles, hybrids are today's state of the art. And there, Nissan has lagged. It is developing its own hybrid system, but...

With record unemployment numbers and an active global recession, it's not news that vehicle sales have been lousy, falling by more than one-third from the record levels of a few years ago. But at least one maker's green cars are doing better than ever: Ford's U.S. sales of its hybrid-electric...

In the accelerating quest for greater fuel efficiency, boosting engines--with turbos or superchargers--is one way to pull more power out of a given displacement. Traditionally, superchargers have been driven by chain or belt powered from an engine's crankshaft. Now, a British engineering firm has...

  A few weeks ago, we got a note from reader Laila Folk asking about air conditioning in hybrid cars, specifically the 2010 Ford Escape Hybrid. She wrote: Can you get an answer from Ford Corporation regarding the inclusion of an electric motor driven air compressor for the A/C unit in the 2010...

Hydro-Quebec, the leading electricity provider of the Canadian Province, signed on to field test a Ford Escape plug-in hybrid. Ford's program provides several different companies with a PHEV Escape for a three year test program.  The goal of the program is to provide real world feedback to Ford...

Here at GreenCarReports.com, we spend a lot of time reading and writing about green cars of all stripes: fuel-efficient hatchbacks, hybrids, diesels, small cars, you name it. But we also spend time immersed in the fast-changing world of digital media. And lately, we've spent a lot of time looking...

Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the country's 12th largest airport, purchased its first electric vehicle to be used by the parking management staff. The electric powered utility truck is a $22,000 Cushman vehicle.  It has the ability to run up to 55 miles on a single charge and could...

The powertrain in the Ford Escape Hybrid was selected by Wards Auto as one of the ten best for 2009. The 10 Best Engine Award winners are selected for their breakthrough design, outstanding output, and fuel efficiency among other categories.  The powertrain in the Ford Escape Hybrid was selected...

The new stimulus package that was recently signed in to law allows car buyers to take advantage of tax breaks and credits on hybrid vehicles. The current stimulus package allows would be cars buyers to deduct state and local sales tax paid on any vehicle that was purchased new after February...

Despite all the green love Toyota gets, Ford builds and sells hybrids too. In fact, they've now built enough of them that tax breaks for buying a Ford hybrid will start to wind down at the end of March. The full tax credit only applies to sales of the first 60,000 hybrids from each carmaker...

Ford Motor Company celebrated the production of their 100,000th hybrid at their Kansas City Assembly Plant today. The company, which plans to increase hybrid car production this year with the incoming Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan models, used the day as an opportunity to plug their gas-electric...

Plug-in hybrid batteries may last longer than you own your car. Southern California Edison (SCE) said Tuesday that they've continuously tested a Johnson Control-Saft lithium-ion battery subpack for the equivalent of 180,000 miles with minimal degradation; and the test is still ongoing. You could...