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Well, my sig will show some Fuelly updates. I now have the lowest MPG (32.9) yet reported for an Escape hybrid. I had hoped to also have the highest (41), but some folks must live in warm climates. As of 4 tanks and 1,620 miles, I have: - two with ~50% EV and <30 MPH speeds, - two with <9% EV and >60 MPH speeds. The question becomes how this compares with C-Max. Saturday, pi day, my son and I took a 650 miles road trip to buy pizza in my wife's home town. The C-Max was her father's car, and in 2014, we did some winter trips that might compare with Saturday's. It's a bad comparison for many reasons; I had started doing things to improve mileage, blocking the uppermost grill, adding vortex generators (neither to much effect) and raising tire pressures. Conversely, the C-Max had snow tires in January, it was 20F colder, and the trips were lower average speed, with lots of non-highway miles and much higher EV% Escape averaged 33.60 MPG for a single 650 mile round trip that was 100% highway. C-Max averaged 33.66 MPG for two round trips totalling 1,660 miles, so ~360 rural miles with associated cold starts. Still kind of promising... only Escape mod is fuel; 91E0 going out, but I had to get 93E15 coming back. Time for tire pressure, to 40 psi per the 41 psi load rating. HAve fun, Frank