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2024 Ford Escape Hybrid Model Overview | Purvis Ford

The 2024 Ford Escape Hybrid, available now at Purvis Ford in Fredericksburg, VA, offers an efficient and versatile compact SUV option. With a 2.5-liter I-4 hybrid engine and your choice of front-wheel drive (FWD) or all-wheel drive (AWD), the Escape Hybrid delivers impressive fuel economy of 42 MPG city and 36 MPG highway. Drivers in the Fredericksburg area will appreciate the spacious cargo capacity of up to 65.4 cubic feet.

 

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2024 Ford F-150 Lightning Exterior Features Impress

The 2024 Ford F-150 Lightning turns heads with its bold, muscular exterior styling. This electric pickup has five distinct trims - PRO, LARIAT, PLATINUM, Flash, and XLT - each with unique exterior touches. The F-150 Lightning makes a statement cruising the streets of Fredericksburg with its body-colored bumpers, black rub strip/fascia accent, and tow hooks.

 

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Get Seated Behind the Wheel of a 2024 Ford at Purvis Ford

One of the most favorable automakers is known as Ford because it manufactures durable and innovative vehicles. This includes four-door sedans, two-door coupes, pickup trucks, and crossovers. Many of the available models come in a myriad of trims for distinction purposes. Find a powertrain that best suits your travel needs, whether it's naturally aspirated, hybrid, or forced inducted. 

 

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Ford is at it Again Copying Notes from Nature with Carbon-Fixing Plastics

Ford has been driving innovation by stealing ideas straight from Mother Nature's notebook. One ongoing project is to develop an adhesive based on gecko feet. Now, Ford is looking at flora for inspiration.

One really cool thing trees do is draw carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the air, and use that carbon as building blocks to grow. Epiphytes -- plants that grow on other plants -- do this even better than…

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What Difference Does a Plug-In Make?

Words like hybrid and plug-in hybrid may all be Greek to you, but the difference is actually significant. So how do the Ford C-Max Hybrid and Ford C-Max Energi differ?

Let's start with what both do:

  • Electric motor and gas engine work together to propel car
  • Better fuel economy than gas engine alone
  • Lithium-ion battery charges via regenerative braking
  • 188 net horsepower
  • Next-generation SmartGauge with
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How Ford is Stealing Ideas from Geckos

When you lean over your desk and copy answers from another student, they call that cheating. When the thing you're copying answers from is a lizard, on the other hand, they call it "biomimicry."

Biomimicry is exactly what Ford is up to in order to solve a recycling dilemma.

To create the interior of a new vehicle, you need to glue cushioning foam to metal and plastic…

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Ford Decreases Its Ecological Footprint With Soy Beans

Ever since the days of Henry Ford himself, the Ford Motor Company has been ahead of the times when it comes to a sense of corporate social responsibility. We constantly seek more ethical approaches to everyday production issues. Check out the article below for more information on our new soy bean vehicle seating as a surprising alternative to petroleum-based compounds. Soy seats in new cars? It’s not as crazy as you think. http://t.co/FDWgPRObcV #FarmToCar pic.twitter.com/WglGUazPxN— Ford Drive
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