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I'm getting 48MPG at 75F, and 47.3mpg average around 80+F ambient. In the city, mpg can go as high as 50. I accelerate on the gasoline engine, and 'coast' on the electric motor. That seems to make the most of my mpg (up from 42mpg trying to let the car decide how to switch between the two). The problem is that the car doesn't know the road ahead, and quite often is running the gasoline engine longer than needed, resulting in the engine switching to electric, right as I'm about to enter an intersection and need to stop. Then it tries to accelerate on the electric motor, because the batteries are fully charged, and the engine has nothing to charge. The small 40/50HP electric motor isn't well suited for acceleration much past 25-30MPH, resulting in energy losses. For that reason, I force the engine on (by pressing the pedal deeper), until I've reached cruising speed. Then blip the throttle the other way, by shortly letting go, allowing the engine to shut off, electric motor to regen, and take over the job of coasting. I really feel like this car needs a larger supercapacitor pack, and at least a 20-25% larger electric motor. I also believe that the engine is putting out closer to 160HP (rather than the rated 140hp), and the electric motor is overboosted to 45-50hp rather than the rated 40HP, with a combined performance coming closer to 215hp vs rated 180hp. It's underrated, much like their mpg ratings of 42mpg. I'm getting closer to 50mpg in the city, and 40mpg on the highway. Hovering around 47mpg average doing 25/50/25 city/suburbs/hwy.

2020 FEH owners are reporting 40-45 mpg with AWD on Escape forum web site. My latest build date on my FEHP is the end of next month, we will see. Paul