Just weeks after the magazine assailed Ford for how the complexity of the MyFord Touch system continued to confuse American car buyers, Consumer Reports alleged that the Ford Fusion Hybrid delivered only 39 mpg in its tests of the vehicle in highway and city driving, far short of the 47 mpg Ford claims for the model.
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And so, the LEAF for Nissan, the Prius for Toyota, Ford with the hybrid Fusion, General Motors with the Volt, Chrysler when it gets its small cars.
The new Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid boasts 108 MPGe (miles per gallon of gas equivalent).
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In 2010, a forward-thinking friend of mine took me for a ride in a Ford Fusion, a gas-electric hybrid that gets more miles per gallon than comparable cars with conventional engines.
In 2010 the Ford brand swept both categories, for its Fusion Hybrid sedan in the car category and Transit Connect in the truck segment.
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As Ford's investment in electrified vehicles such as Fusion Hybrid increased, so did the size of the Sustainable Mobility Technologies team behind it, said Chuck Gray, Ford chief engineer, Global Core Engineering Hybrid and Electric Vehicles.
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Chevy's Volt and Nissan's Leaf are the high-profile, well-received electrically charged headline grabbers, but Ford has also arrived with critically acclaimed hybrid versions of its Escape SUV and Fusion sedan.
Nissan 's ( NSANY - news - people ) Leaf are the high-profile, well-received electrically charged headline grabbers, but Ford has also arrived with critically acclaimed hybrid versions of its Escape SUV and Fusion sedan.
The marquee green car for the show was the Fusion Energi, a production-intent plug-in hybrid with, Ford says, a combined fuel economy of over 100 MPGe (a measure of gasoline-gallon energy equivalence).
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The Ford Fusion, Honda Accord and Toyota Prius are all available as a plug-in hybrid, while General Motors uses a smaller motor and battery pack to give a little electric assist to cars like the Buick LaCrosse and Chevrolet Malibu.
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Ford, meanwhile, achieved a breakthrough for mid-sized family cars with its 41-mpg hybrid Fusion.
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