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Old 06-21-2008, 07:33 PM
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Default VeraSun Energy testing E85 Escape Hybrid

Mystery solved?

VeraSun Testing Hybrid Escape at this link:

http://domesticfuel.com/2007/08/10/v...hybrid-escape/




Link for video http://www.keloland.com/videoarchive...File=081007gas
Now how about a report after nearly 1 year of testing?

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Best Interstate tank trip MPG 39.02 (scangauge II) for 402 miles on I-70, 10.3 gallons used over mostly flat terrain.

Best Interstate tank trip E30 MPG 34.6 for 271 miles along I-80 in Indiana and Ohio.

Best multiple road tank trip E30 MPG 36.2 for 202 miles in Southwestern Pa.

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Default Re: VeraSun Energy testing E85 Escape Hybrid

This is the real evidence .



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2005 AWD Escape Hybrid
Best Interstate tank trip MPG 39.02 (scangauge II) for 402 miles on I-70, 10.3 gallons used over mostly flat terrain.

Best Interstate tank trip E30 MPG 34.6 for 271 miles along I-80 in Indiana and Ohio.

Best multiple road tank trip E30 MPG 36.2 for 202 miles in Southwestern Pa.
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Default Re: VeraSun Energy testing E85 Escape Hybrid

View of engine cover.

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2005 AWD Escape Hybrid
Best Interstate tank trip MPG 39.02 (scangauge II) for 402 miles on I-70, 10.3 gallons used over mostly flat terrain.

Best Interstate tank trip E30 MPG 34.6 for 271 miles along I-80 in Indiana and Ohio.

Best multiple road tank trip E30 MPG 36.2 for 202 miles in Southwestern Pa.
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Default Re: VeraSun Energy testing E85 Escape Hybrid

What was the mystery? Didn't I say in February it was a VeraSun Vehicle ( the one in the snow ) that I took photos of? Maybe not. Maybe no-one asked. Oh well. I took the photos in the Parking Lot of a VeraSun facility, so yes, I can confirm it was being used by VeraSun Energy, and I spoke to the driver who sadly, really wasn't keeping track of MPG.

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Gasabout $0.05/mi
Gasabout $0.09/mi
E85about $0.09/mi

WORLD RECORD MTE?
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Default Re: VeraSun Energy testing E85 Escape Hybrid

Coincidentally,

That is the same engine cover used on the 2009 2.5... (cept the E85 letters obviously)


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Default Re: VeraSun Energy testing E85 Escape Hybrid

Can you shed light on what the fuel injector and pump size is for the E85 Escape Hybrid? There is also a software update for the ECM on this vehicle but it is unlikely anyone but Ford Motor Company could tell us what this is.

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Best Interstate tank trip MPG 39.02 (scangauge II) for 402 miles on I-70, 10.3 gallons used over mostly flat terrain.

Best Interstate tank trip E30 MPG 34.6 for 271 miles along I-80 in Indiana and Ohio.

Best multiple road tank trip E30 MPG 36.2 for 202 miles in Southwestern Pa.
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Default Re: VeraSun Energy testing E85 Escape Hybrid

I don't know that one... E85 does not require massive amounts of extra fuel... just perhaps 25% more. The normal ones in my car seem to work fine.

I've not yet taken it up a steep mountain grade with E85, but I've gone on the highway at 75 miles per hour which is almost as much... fuel-wise... as a steep mountain at 55 or 60 MPH.

I really can't tell I'm using E85, except my MPG is in the 20's.
When cold, I had a little bit rough idle with E85.
It is smooth at everything above idle, even when the engine is cold.
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