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Old 11-04-2006, 03:49 AM
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Default Re: Which acceleration is better for FE for FEH/MMH?

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Originally Posted by TeeSter
But I get 29 on the freeway in my 4WD FEH (exactly the EPA estimate amazingly)......The 4WD 6cylinder gets 17 on the freeway... For some reason I can't get to the ford site right now but I think the 4 cylinder 2.3 non hybrid is rated 24MPG.....

Why is my hybrid hwy so horrible vs an equivalent weight ICE only vehicle... It still seems to have an advantage... just not as large of one.
Or even more fun, use the posters at Edmunds as your Escape sampling base. For the 4WD Escape, the average is 14 MPGs mixed. Contrasted against my 4WD FEH at 33.4, and that's more then 238% the FE of the nonhybrid equivalent. (Yeah, I know, a large sample base at Edmunds vs my own personal FE isn't exactly fair.)

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