Yesterday we looked at the success that the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid was having in its 1,000 miles on a single tank of gas challenge. Well, the car finally ran out of gas this morning at 5:37 AM in Washington, D.C. The final tally: average of 81.5 mpg, a total travel distance of 1,445.7 miles, [...]
A team of Ford engineers, fuel efficiency experts, and NASCAR driver Carl Edwards set out on Saturday morning in an effort to prove that a standard production 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid could go 1,000 miles on a single 17.5-gallon tank of gas. The effort would require an average MPG of 57 and the driving team [...]
The new Ford Fusion Hybrid got a lot of attention a month or so back when it traveled over 1,400 miles on a single 17.5 gallon tank of regular unleaded gas, for an overage of about 81 mpg. It wasn’t just the media and green car enthusiasts that were paying attention to the Fusion, however. [...]
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