My escape Hybrid died on Thursday. 9600 trouble free miles and poof it drops dead in the Girlfriends driveway. The cause (one week later they are still diagnosing it) seems to be a defective Hybrid electronics cooling pump . The system DID NOT enter safe mode nor did it issue ANY warnings of any kind. The only alert was a "stop safely now" and a complete shutdown at the same time. Because the transmission remained in gear the car stopped immediatly. THis actually happend 3 times, twice in the driveway and once after a 30 minute cooldown on the drive to my house (about a mile away).

I will post more info when I have it.

By the way I got the impression from the dealer that thier is a TSB on this issue, but I have not been able to find it.

My mileage was averaging 27 MPG in very hilly county (2500 ft vertial commute daily).