So I’m optimistic that the battery range is basically bang-on for normal driving and supports my hypothesis that if you’re disciplined with the charging and have an average commute (between 15 and 30km per day) you’ll rarely feel the 2.5-litre kick into life.
Our Content Director Jez Spinks eked out 57km of electric-only driving too, and he doesn’t spare the rod. I kid you not, the engine kicked in for the first time just 900 metres from my front door, which is an epic achievement really because a good chunk of that run was at 100km/h and most of the rest of it at 80km/h. If I had taken the slower, less motorway-ey way home I’m sure it would have made it all the way on electrons.
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I picked the car up with a full battery and a head full of dreams, aiming it down the M2 Motorway to my home south of Sydney airport which is exactly 52km. In the past I’d have said that this was a bit of a dodgy number with experience telling me most PHEVs miss by twenty or even thirty percent. EV Later and EV Charge (uses the engine to charge the battery)įord reckons you’ll get up to 56km in EV mode.In terms of driving modes, you can choose from: Ford doesn’t give a torque figure, but it’s evidently reasonably solid.
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With a combined output of 167kW, power is down but there are the obvious benefits of electrification to soften the blow. The PHEV drops the 183kW turbo four of the ICE ST-Line for a 2.5-litre Atkinson-cycle four-cylinder with an electric motor and a 14.4kWh lithium-ion battery. We were promised – promised – the plug-in hybrid not that long after launch but it wasn’t until June 2022 that the PHEV arrived. And had been hampered for a while by the terrible Kuga name before reverting to Escape. I always thought that it was unfairly ignored – like many of Ford’s excellent range – as the old car had the grunt few in the segment had and kind of led the way for sporty affordable SUVs with the ST-Line version.
The current Ford Escape launched here not quite a couple of years ago to build on the relative success of its predecessor.
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UPDATE 1: PHEV as basic hybrid Statute of liberty?
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