Sure wish the Ford dealerships had the proper testing equipment to examine the health of the Hybryd battery. They have nothing other than visual, and idle battery evaluation...nothing to put battery under real driving conditions to show how battery health under Load is OK (Elec Motor elec draw). So for now I seem to drive my C-Max working to keep battery charged then for high gas Mileage. As I wrote previously, my Battery display symbols may go as high as a little over 50%, but as soon as I drive on EV, it goes down to 20 range. I believe someone wrote in a prior Post...the battery Display is actually showing a range of 30% to 80%. Its just my Feeling the SOC is not at full health and the reason the Battery, as seen by the Display, discharges so quickly when running on EV. I realize this time of the year the AC is On all the time, its drawing power from the battery, but this is my 3rd summer season of ownership and I didn't experience this issue in prior summers....
Oh well, it is what it is...I still manage to get around 40MPG....but prior to this issue, it was higher. With Ford moving over to more Elec cars maybe their testing equipment will get better in the future. Nice to know that the Hybryd Battery has a 100% replacement warranty for 8yrs....although I don't plan in owning the C-Max that Long. If the battery just stops functioning, not saying it ever will, the Gas engine will keep me going if I am not in a place where I can get into a dealership (ie vacation).
Would like to think the 2019 Escape will be released with this Gas\Elec (non-Plug-in) model but seems from what I have read, it may be released with the Plug-in model.....