Ford Escape PHEV | FWD only, no AWD , but no range anxiety
The next-gen Escape has undergone a massive makeover. The vehicle is lighter, more agile, and more fuel-efficient than ever. Plus, you can go further with the Ford Escape Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV). It is equipped with a 2.5L plug-in hybrid i-VCT engine, an electronically controlled continuously variable gearbox! Equipped with the same gasoline 4-cylinder engine as its hybrid brother, it adds a larger battery (14.4 kWh) and connected charging. It can thus offer a power of 209 horsepower, but above all an electric range of some 61 kilometers in gas-free mode. And unlike the Escape Hybrid, you can charge the Plug-In Hybrid at home or on one of the growing nationwide power grids. Essentially, the more frequently you can plug in and charge, the less gas you will use. The Ford Escape Plug-in Hybrid is sold across Canada, but its availability is currently limited outside Quebec and British Columbia. The Escape PHEV is only available with front-wheel drive. Electricity + gasoline consumption = 2.2 L / 100 km city / highway combined! And fuel consumption alone = 5.8 L / 100 km city / highway combined! The only downside, the Ford Escape PHEV is FWD only, no AWD! But at least you won’t get any range anxiety!
Hey guys welcome to car question i’m with dave today here in revelstoke bc to try the new ford escape hev the escape is an important car for ford they are bringing the phev to this car and dave i want to know what you think about the exterior to be honest james the outside is not my favorite point with the phev um i
Think we miss a little bit the wow factor there it’s not a head turner for people when we’re driving but we told us at ford that we focus more on the numbers and give us a good vehicles with good numbers then give us something that it’s more like just a good look yeah and if we compare with the other versions of
The escape the older versions we kind of see the difference here it’s still an improvement though it’s not bad it looked good it’s just that uh i would like a little bit more of uh spice into it and now dave the interior okay so the interior uh a lot of space that’s the first thing i saw uh my friend james here is around
Six foot nine or ten so needs a lot of space and that vehicle is good for that so a lot of space comfort uh the seat to say about the interior like everything is perfect oh yeah the rear seat you can move it forwards and backward offer more space for people in the back as well the fact that the people at
Ford put the batteries on their vehicles and not in the trunk like some other vehicles give us uh space in the back in space as well in the trunk roof and also the display in front of you system it is really easy to use so it’s a pretty good interior for the car i think the only thing i’m not sure about dave is the
Kind of no you’re right on that james i think that the top-notch it’s not bad but yes i would like to have a little bit more on that side too and if we compare with a mackie that the screen is very huge i think we can just do a little upgrade here now with some specs it’s 220 horsepower the electric
Motor and we have 60 kilometers average people that rides the car it’s kind of a little bit low for some people but don’t forget you have the gas engine that will take over when uh when you need it so it’s very good as well 220 horsepower is more way more than what we really need in a day to day to go to work uh
So nothing numbers james we don’t have a version with 4×4 and then i think here in quebec canada that’s something that with that people will look for exactly and it’s a cvt2 so it’s not bad the transmission is very smooth dave it’s impressing and you have the mode of driving and you have you can let
It to normal mode if you want you can have also a mode that saves you 15 of the battery so you can really adapt the car for what you need at this moment yes so all the option all the mode uh really like it we need to talk to about the fact that the vehicle recharged himself on the road so that i mean if you decelerate
The battery will himself recharge as well as when you break hit the brake so all those little thing that the engineer at ford did really good thumbs up on that yeah and speaking of battery to recharge the car dave on the 220 volts it’s three and a half hour and for a 110 volts it’s ten and a half hours so i
Love the car i like to drive that it was really nice you feel safe you feel comfortable in the vehicles the suspension is pretty stiff uh james you talk about the transmission just to change gear it’s awesome like it’s so smooth very very good on that nothing to say against that so uh overall the feeling of driving is
Really good the sports mode would give you the little bit of a then you know the punch you need to bypass a van or something it’s very good i like it and now dave i want to know what do you not like about this car okay so to do that maybe one or two point the fact that i don’t have a 4×4 version i’m living in
Quebec that’s something i would like to have in the future maybe on this vehicles uh other thing you talk about it the inside the material in the way it is configured i think we miss a little bit i would like to have a notch a little bit higher than that so now for a thing that i like dave uh it’s a phev first so it’s
Pretty good it’s 60 kilometers of autonomy so that i like too the eevee modes you can choose and the smooch rides super comfortable inside the car it’s not too loud also so that’s the point that i like what about you you you talk about the space safe in the vehicles the performance are good the numbers are good
I think that’s uh that’s a big win for ford on that uh on that vehicle in that version i liked it a lot so guys we want to know what do you think about that vehicles what do you think about phev vehicles in general and we don’t want to know what you think about our accent because we do our best but i know we’re
Not there yet but i think that that vehicle is there yet so we want to know so thumbs up share foreign
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Ford Escape PHEV | FWD only, no AWD 😰, but no range anxiety! By Car QuestionliveBroadcastDetails{isLiveNowfalsestartTimestamp2021-11-06T140011+0000endTimestamp2021-11-06T140800+0000}
