Ford’s Hybrid Car: A Giant Step towards the Reduction
of Oil
Consumption and Air Pollution
by: Jenny McLane
Ford’s Hybrid Car: A Giant Step towards the Reduction of Oil
Consumption and Air Pollution.
Today’s financial crisis comes as a main concern with the price
hikes of main commodities and the tremendous raise in petroleum
prices. More and more people—interest groups, government
administrators, consumers and the industry are bothered by these.
Since one cannot do away with transportation utilities,
alternatives to the conventional gasoline engine are a current
issue to both consumers and auto manufacturers.
The United States ranks as the world’s largest consumer of oil.
Transportation is responsible for roughly 65 percent of petroleum
use not to mention that it is likewise the major cause of air
pollution. The Department of Energy sees the transitioning to
vehicles which are fueled by less oil thereby yielding to higher
gas mileage as the solution to the dependence on the already
dwindling and too expensive resource that may lead to the
reduction of pollution.
Hybrid cars are on the watch list. Several government leaders
from all over America recommend the use of hybrid cars since they
combine gas and electric fuel sources. Hybrid cars integrate a
gasoline engine with both an electric motor and a powerful
battery to continuously recharge and store energy therefore the
configuration it produces allows less energy to be lost and holds
a high gas mileage.
Practicality and technology speaks for the hybrids. Several
manufacturers started coming up with their hybrid concepts to
respond to the consumer and the present time’s call. Necessity is
indeed the mother of invention, as Plato puts it. Ford is
basically spurred by a sense of necessity, practicality,
inevitability, and the reality that it is the ultimate relief to
today’s downtrodden economy.
Ford Escape Hybrid is the very first vehicle to combine SUV
capability with an outstanding fuel economy and low environmental
impact. True to the qualities possessed by an SUV leader, Ford’s
Escape Hybrid drives normally, performs superbly, and contains no
compromise features expected of an efficient SUV.
"When we began work on Escape Hybrid, we made a commitment to
delivering a no-compromise, authentic Ford SUV that's fun to
drive, spacious, comfortable and capable, with substantially
lower fuel use and emissions," said Mary Ann Wright, director,
Sustainable Mobility Technologies and Hybrid Programs, Ford Motor
Company. "Mission accomplished! It's wonderful to see the vehicle
we originally envisioned resonating so strongly with customers,"
she added.
Escape Hybrid has earned the highest fuel economy numbers for an
SUV as certified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency with
its 36 mpg city/31 mpg highway/33 combined in front-wheel-drive
configuration; 33 mpg city/29 mpg highway/31 mpg combined for the
four-wheel-drive model. It is certifiably a clean vehicle to run
and operate producing 97% less hydrocarbon and oxides of nitrogen
emissions than vehicles that meet the nationwide Tier I emissions
standard. No wonder Ford Escape Hybrid has been named "North
American Truck of the Year" for 2005.
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Jenny McLane works as a Market Analyst for one of the country's
leading auto parts distributors. She has been in the auto parts
industry for over ten years now.
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