[Jims5543]

I was just thinking I was in a Ford Fusion Hybrid over Thanksgiving in Texas and it has that same feature. It was a more interesting car because it tried to run on battery power as much as possible.

I ran the gas motor once the battery was dead then harvested energy from stopping and coasting.

My best guess from driving it for a week was that is had about 5 miles battery range. When we took off in the morning I noticed it would run on batter for a few miles before the engine kicked on, unless I gave it a lot of throttle then the gas motor would kick on.

At red lights it was silent and was take off silent too using the electric motor over the gas.

It was pretty slick, I was getting 40MPG with it mixed driving.

The Scota I was driving in Ireland seemed to be getting over 50 MPG. We drove it a week and never put diesel in it.