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Article: ESCAPE HYBRID
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- Policefleet Manager
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- March 1, 2006
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CopyrightCopyright Hendon Publishing Company Mar/Apr 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The Escape Hybrid is powered by a 2.3L 4-cylinder gasoline engine and a 70-kilowatt electric motor. The Escape Hybrid can run on the electric motor alone, the gasoline engine alone or a varying combination of these two, whatever gives the most economical operation. The Escape Hybrid never needs to be plugged in.
This electric traction (or drive) motor is what makes the Escape Hybrid a "full" hybrid. This is in contrast to a "mild" hybrid, a vehicle that merely shuts off as you coast to a stop and at idle but does not have an electric motor to assist in driving the vehicle.
Even among "full" hybrids, two sub-categories exist. In the system used by the Escape Hybrid and Toyota Prius, the ...