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Ford Escape Hybrid: First GasElectricPowered SUV and Ford Replacement Parts for Its Exceptional Pe
By: Jenny McLane

The Ford Escape Hybrid is a fuelsaving gaselectric hybridpower version of small fourdoor sportutility vehicle available with frontwheel drive (FWD) or fourwheel drive (4x4). Its power train has 2.3liter fourcylinder gas engine rated 133 horsepower at 6000 rpm 129 poundsfeet of torque at 4500 rpm; synchronous AC electric motor rated 94 hp from 3000 to 5000 rpm; 330volt battery pack under rear cargo floor; electronically controlled continuously variable transmission. Maximum power output is 155 hp because gas and electric do not make their maximum power simultaneously.

It has a 2.3liter Atkinsoncycle fourcylinder gasoline engine with a 70kilowatt permanentmagnet traction electric motor regenerative braking and a 330volt battery pack. The combination provides performance on par with a V6. The hybrid never has to be plugged in because the engine recharges the batteries by the electric motor and by heat recovered as energy during braking.

The Escape hybrid really wants to be an electric vehicle but the gasoline engine adds power for acceleration charges the batteries and powers the air conditioning said Mary Ann Wright Fords director of Sustainable Mobility Programs

Unlike electric cars hybrids never need to be plugged into a recharger. Regenerative braking recharges the Ford Escape Hybrid which converts electric motor into a generator to help refill the battery pack during stops; and by a recharging system powered by the gas engine.

Designed to last for the life of the vehicle and can be found under the Escapes cargo floor the battery pack which contains 250 small batteries roughly the size of D cells mounted in series doesnt infringe on cargo space.

The software and computerized controllers that make everything work effectively is the key to a hybrid. Small badges identify the Ford Escape as a hybrid. The instrument panel is a little different because it contains a gauge that shows when the electric

motor is the source of power and when the gasoline engine is running. An optional LCD display in the center stack gives instant and average fuel economy as well as a pictorial representation of how the power is flowing at any instant.

The Escapes hybrid engine shuts down at rest to conserve fuel. When driving resumes the SUVs 70kilowatt traction motor generator can launch the vehicle on electric power. When its needed the generator starts the gas engine without the increased emissions produced when a conventional engine is started.

The Escape Hybrid also produces as little as half the amount of carbon dioxide (greenhouse gas) as a conventional gas engine. It produces 97 percent less hydrocarbon and oxides of nitrogen emissions than vehicles meeting todays required emission standards. That qualifies it for the Advanced Technology Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle (ATPZEV) standards designation.

Being the leader in the development of low emission vehicles Ford continually develops projects that will someday result in practical hydrogenpowered vehicles with no greenhouse gas emissions.

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Jenny McLane is a 36 year old native of Iowa

and has a knack for research on cars and anything

and everything about it. She works full time as a

Market Analyst for one of the leading car parts suppliers

in the country today.