Tested: 2021 Ford Escape PHEV's powertrain upstages its host vehicle:
The EPA estimates the Escape plug-in hybrid will return 40 mpg once the battery is depleted, which is about equal to the regular hybrid's combined estimates of 41 mpg and 40 mpg ; that's also considerably better than the thriftiest nonhybrid Escape, which carries an EPA combined estimate of 30 mpg. The PHEV returned 35 mpg in our 75-mph highway fuel-economy test—3 mpg shy of the EPA's rating and the same as we got with the base-engine model—and averaged 36 MPGe overall.
In addition to the default mode, which uses gas or electric power as the system sees fit, there's one to conserve battery charge for later , another that allows the engine to add charge to the battery , and a pure-EV mode. The latter doesn't wake the engine even when the accelerator is floored, although a message in the cluster display will invite the driver to enable the gas engine by hitting the OK button on the steering wheel.
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