djminfll Report post Posted February 27, 2013 There were a lot of responses to my original post regarding the ACC option, so I thought I'd add a new one on this as well.I have been using the ACC regularly, and it really helps keep the mpg elevated. I live in Fort Lauderdale and work in Miami, close to 40 miles, mostly highway. As you can see on the attached picture, I achieved 45.5mpg on my drive into work, the same result going home. I used ACC to keep the car accelerating smoothly. On surface streets, I reduce the ACC to 40-45mph and as the streets get more congested, the car maintains a consistent distance from the car in front of me. Of course, if someone cuts in front, I have my foot ready to brake. After reading some of the postings from adcii, I was concerned that I would have trouble maintaining the 30mpg range, so now I'm convinced there is something wrong with his vehicle. On one short trip (1.5 miles) to the supermarket, I kept speeds consistent using ACC, and achieved 57.2mpg. 1 coach81 reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toz Report post Posted February 27, 2013 That's cool. I was wondering if the car was programmed to accelerate at a efficient speed on ACC. I guess it is. 1 coach81 reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
acdii Report post Posted February 27, 2013 The ACC uses the Radar to keep its distance, If you turn it off, the cruise remains the same for MPG, but you have to keep the distance manually with the cancel/resume button. The Ecocruise is what is helping with the MPG though. Great combination. When I was down in Florida, driving in the warm weather on I think it was 95? in Lakeland, travel was flowing at a nice pace and I did see 50+ MPG, but our speeds were 35-45 too. The Hybrid side of my car works fine. Up here with snow, the ACC and Collision gets easily defeated. :( Oh well, dont really use it when it snows anyways. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
djminfll Report post Posted February 28, 2013 I find I'm getting improved mpg using the ACC since I have it set in ECO mode, so when it does accelerate back to speed, it does it gradually, and most times, the car remains in EV mode. My overall average mpg to date (total of 425 miles) is only 38.7mpg, but for the first 100 miles I really didn't know how to effectively drive a hybrid. Since each trip I take now is well into the 40's, I think the average will continue to climb. 1 coach81 reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TX NRG Report post Posted February 28, 2013 The ACC uses the Radar to keep its distance I'm curious about the radar. Does anyone know if this signal gets detected by your radar detector? Is it X- or K-band? Thanks. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hermans Report post Posted February 28, 2013 If you have a SYNC account you can find out a lot about the Fusion...including ACC. Lots of videos that explain things.https://owner.ford.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=Owner/Page/OwnerVideoPageVehicleLookup&BackToLogin=Owner/Page/OwnerVideoPage&ord=99903804 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shaggy314 Report post Posted February 28, 2013 There's a youtube channel with 25ish little vignettes about the Fusion and Sync. 1 coach81 reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
coach81 Report post Posted March 1, 2013 I'm curious about the radar. Does anyone know if this signal gets detected by your radar detector? Is it X- or K-band? Thanks.I would imagine the ACC would probably send a signal to most radar detectors... as it sends a radar signal... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
coach81 Report post Posted March 1, 2013 There's a youtube channel with 25ish little vignettes about the Fusion and Sync.While I was waiting for my vehicle... I watched all of these.. over and over.... 1 Toz reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
murphy Report post Posted March 1, 2013 I would imagine the ACC would probably send a signal to most radar detectors... as it sends a radar signal...Not likely unless it is a very poorly designed radar detector. According to this article ACC uses either 76 or 77 GHz and has a maximum range of 492 feet.http://auto.howstuffworks.com/cruise-control4.htm X band is 8-12 GHzK band is 18-26.5 GHzKa band is 26.5-40 GHz 2 coach81 and TX NRG reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
coach81 Report post Posted March 1, 2013 Not likely unless it is a very poorly designed radar detector. According to this article ACC uses either 76 or 77 GHz and has a maximum range of 492 feet.http://auto.howstuffworks.com/cruise-control4.htm X band is 8-12 GHzK band is 18-26.5 GHzKa band is 26.5-40 GHzI stand corrected. Learn something new... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toz Report post Posted March 1, 2013 I wonder what band the BLIS operates in? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FusionDiffusion Report post Posted March 3, 2013 BLIS is 24 GHz (K-band) I believe. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
