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Ford hybrid gets Fringe treatment on TV this fall

While KITT gets the headline from Ford in its announcement of FoMoCo vehicles appearing in fall TV shows, the green-minded among us can find a mention of a hybrid powerplant on the set of Fringe a few paragraphs down - after talk of KITT (it turns into a F-150!) and Desperate Housewifes. Fringe is the latest show from J. J. Abrams (Lost and Alias). Apparently, a main character in the FOX sci-fi drama Fringe, FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) will track down E.T. or whatever in a 2009 Escape Hybrid. The use of the honkin' hybrid shows ... Read more →

Top 5 hybrid SUVs available today, number 1: Ford Escape Jeremy Korzeniewski

Click the 2009 Escape Hybrid for a high res gallery We've spent plenty of seat time behind the wheel of the Ford Escape hybrid. The last time we had one, it managed to return an average of thirty ...

Ford picks Johnson Controls-Saft to supply batteries for PHEV Escapes Sebastian Blanco

When Ford handed over the keys to a plug-in Escape hybrid to Southern California Edison last December, one of many secrets the companies kept to themselves was which battery maker was responsible for ...

LA County ocean lifeguards find themselves in Ford Escape Hybrids Xavier Navarro

Ford is providing Los Angeles County Ocean Lifeguards with 45 customized Escape Hybrids. The Escapes will be used to patrol 72 miles of Southern California coastline. According to Mike Frazer, chief ...

Ford gives American Idol finalists Escape Hybrids Jeremy Korzeniewski

Click the 2009 Escape Hybrid for a high res gallery While we were a bit surprised to see David Cook beat out David Archulata on last night's finale of American Idol, it was the contestants themselves ...

Why is Ford only building 25,000 hybrid Escapes and Mariners this year 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click the 2009 Escape Hybrid for a high res gallery Prior to our drive of the 2009 Ford Escape the other day, several Ford representatives talked about the changes for the new model year along with how the Escape is doing. Since the debut of the 2008 models a year ago, the Kansas City Assembly ...

Sales of Ford Escape hybrids and Focuses up in California 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Ford Escape hybrid: sales in California up 10 percent in January 2008 compared to January 2007. Ford Focus (with its PZEV rating): up 11 percent. Those are the highlights of a press release Ford put out yesterday and available after the jump. FoMoCo makes the case that these increases show ...

DC Auto Show: Ford refines the Escape/Mariner hybrids 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Just in time to better compete with the upcoming Saturn Vue Two-Mode hybrid, Ford is rolling out a series of updates to the Escape and Mariner (and likely the badge engineered Mazda Tribute) hybrids. The big news is an updated 2.5L four cylinder engine that supplants the existing 2.3L unit. The ...

EVS23: Ford's plug-in Escape hybrid handover videos 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Back at EVS23, Ford handed over the keys for a plug-in hybrid Escape to Southern California Edison. I've finally had time to edit together the video I shot that day, so watch it already. :) In the first part of this video (above) we see the PHEV Escape arrive at the Anaheim Convention Center ...

EVS23: Ford hands over the plug-in Escape hybrid to SCE 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Representatives from Ford and Southern California Edison were obviously quite excited about a big event on Monday at EVS23, where Ford's Sue Cischke (second from left), senior vice president, Sustainability, Environment and Safety Engineering and Nancy Gioia (right), director, Sustainable Mobility, ...

Ford delivers first plug-in hybrid to California South Edison 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Ford announced that a Ford Escape plug-in hybrid, able to reach 120 mpg (yes, that's what they say) has already been delivered to utility company California South Edison as "part of unique partnership to advance commercialization of PHEVs." It's the first of a series of 20 vehicles which will ...

Ford Escape hybrids at the red carpet 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Did you think that only BMW was going to show its green vehicle technologies via the entertainment industry? Not likely. Now it's time for Ford, which has a bunch of Escape Hybrids that are going to be the official transportation for the Screen Actors Guild's (SAG) Award of Excellence Star on ...

Ford thinks presidential candidates are just swell in new Escape hybrid ad 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Knowing a good opportunity when it smells one, Ford has launched a new advertising campaign for the Ford Escape hybrid. The print ad highlights the fact that many of the current crop of presidential candidates are tooling around America in Escape hybrids (when they're not flying, of course), and so ...


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