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Bellevue adds 31 hybrids to its fleet
Thirty-one fuel-efficient vehicles have rolled into the city of Bellevues fleet, including Ford Escape, Ford Fusion and Toyota Camry hybrids. Also as part of its Environmental Stewardship Initiative, the city will acquire 60 more hybrid and electric vehicles next year, to make 35 percent of its light-duty vehicles fuel-efficient models (hybrids, flexible-fuel and electric).

Eric reviews the Ford Escape Hybrid

Ford Escape Hybrid Overall Review

If you’re looking for a new hybrid car, the choices and possibilities are just endless. But do you know that Ford currently offers a hybrid, and continues to come up with other alternative-fuel and hybrid models for their future promotion?

Currently, Ford has just one hybrid car, but is working on several models that can run not on regular oil, but on corn oil which should be a lot more earth-friendly, don’t you think? They will soon have many styles and types to choose from to fit anyone style and personality.

The Escape SUV Hybrid is Ford’s only hybrid, but truly one of its kind. It has been labeled as one of the most fuel-efficient of SUVs, and even of the vehicles on earth.

The Escape Hybrid comes in 4-wheel drive, or full-wheel drive models. Offered in seven colors, its interior has the standard eco-friendly cloth for the seats and dual map seats. You can have a choice of leather seats and heat features for the front seats in either the premium and leather comfort packages. There is something to please everyone when it comes to the Escape Hybrid.

The Escape Hybrid also has the customary CD system, the automatic temperature control that is dual-zone, an outside temperature display, a coat hook for those much-needed coats you just have to bring, and power windows, as well as power door locks specially for the kids. It really is a family style hybrid.

You can always have add-ons to the Escape Hybrid through the optional Premium Packages. These can easily be added whether you decide to get the 4-wheel models, or the Full-wheel drive models. So the Ford Hybrid Escape can surely be customized to fit your needs and desires.

The Escape Hybrid has a fuel tank capacity of 15 gallons, and can comfortably accommodate as many as five adults.

The 4-wheel drive and Full-wheel drive models differ in highway and city miles per gallons ratings, however. The Full-wheel drive Hybrid has a fuel economy rating of 34 miles/gallon in the city, and only 30 miles/gallon on the highway. While the 4-wheel drive has a rating of 29 miles/gallon in the city, and only 27 miles/gallon on the highway.

A major advantage of the Escape Hybrid compared with the conventional model is that it accepts regular unleaded gas, while the latter needs either mid-grade unleaded, or premium unleaded gasoline to run at its best.

Ford has just one hybrid on the market, but the company might include pick-up trucks and other vehicles in their hybrid We hear there may be hybrid compact cars and sedans soon in their hybrid Expedition models. Like me, do you not look forward to that?

So if you are searching for a hybrid car or SUV, make sure you do not let the Ford Escape hybrid pass you by. It is a real alternative, and even challenge to the other hybrids currently available in the market, as it is one of its kind.

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