RonTCat
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Fusion/Escape has had good battery success, hopefully Li-ion batteries will be just as good:Thanks, I will correct my post. PHEV get the longest warranty, 15 years on major drivetrain components.
"Ford has been producing hybrids with Nickel Metal-Hydrid (Ni-MH) battery packs since 2004, when the Ford Escape hybrid hit the streets. Each battery pack contains something like 220 or so individual cells made for Ford by Sanyo.
Between the Fusion hybrid and the Escape hybrid, about 190,000 Ford hybrids are in circulation, comprised of 43 million cells.
Five have failed.
Not five battery packs out of 190,000, five cells out of 43 million. And those failures were put down to a cell manufacturing issue since corrected, not an in-use drop in performance.
Those are damn good odds.
As for the electric motors, Ford reports that there have been zero failures among the 190,000 Ford hybrids in operation." - edmunds.com
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