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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by Full Sail University what's up everybody John rhett endure from TechnoBuffalo here over the past week we've been checking out this beauty behind me it is the Ford Fusion Energi it's a plug-in hybrid and it looks absolutely gorgeous so looking at the car you'll notice a few things about the design first the let's just kindly call it Aston Martin inspired grille sort of the new face of Ford we see it trickled down to almost all their whole product line it is bold its strong and it looks really really nice the redesigned fusion looks also equally as nice as the grille it's got really nice low lines LED headlights the back could look a little bit less generic but the front of the car more than makes up for it so what's going to power this guy is a plug-in hybrid so it's got a 2-liter Atkin cycle 4 liter engine paired to a 7.6 kilowatt hour electric battery it's gonna combine if you have a full charger full tank of gas 4 620 miles of total range if you just want to go and pure electric style they're really gonna get about 20 miles depending on how fast you drive but don't go fast in 85 miles an hour or the gas engines going to kick in they've got a charge this guy up on a standard 120 volts can take you about seven hours and that's just you know whatever you plug into at home like you'd use for anything else or a 240 it's gonna take you about two and a half hours when you're just using the gas side of it you're gonna get a really respectable 43 miles per gallon which is feel pretty nice for a car of this size so this doesn't work like the Volt the Volt for example uses the gasoline engine has a generator this works as a true plug-in hybrid so they work in a few ways it could work together so as you're accelerating it could pull power from the electric pack and also from the gasoline-powered engine you can also go pure electric and then when that starts to die out it'll switch on over to electric but they can work side by side so with two power trains on the Ford Fusion Energi both can power the wheel so they could work side by side or one going and then the other so primarily the way you're going to use this is you'll drive your 20 mile on Pierre electric range if you have less than a 10 mile commute to work or 20 miles the place you can plug in then no problem you'll run almost 100% on pure electricity assuming that you're not going to go fashion 85 miles an hour but what happens if you're driving longer than that then the gas engine is going to kick in and continue to power you just like any other gas-powered car would if you've got it in standard drive mode you want to accelerate really fast it'll pull power from the electric and also from the gas give you a bit more acceleration so kinda nice you get the best of both worlds with a car like this it's gonna be available in two trims the SE which we have and you can get sort of nice things all a cart we've got pretty much everything decked out on this or the titanium artis is fully fully loaded with all of the tech trimmings inside it's got Ford's next generation smart gauge with eco Drive which shows kind of cool leaves growing on one of the two customisable LCD displays so you a couple of that at the heads-up display which simulates brake lights flashes on the windshield and if you don't react in time the brakes will pre charge it increase the brake acid sensitivity to provide full responsiveness when you brake so he'll protect you in case you're not protecting yourself I also has standard Ford things sync like my Ford touch it's got lane keep assist in active parking assist will actually a parallel park itself which is really kind of cool to see so driving the car is a bit of a mixed bag driving electricity is absolutely awesome and get that instant torque I think of it like an electric drill as soon as you push that trigger that thing starts spinning at full torque same thing with the electric car we're they get one rpm you are getting full torque and it's fun to drive when you're using the four-cylinder engine though it's the less fun to drive it revs up really really really high there's very little low-end torque when you're running on gasoline when the car is running services as a hybrid with both a battery charge and a full take a gas it was a lot of fun to drive when I started running just on gas though it was a little less of enjoyable experience so at 7.6 kilowatt hour battery pack has to live somewhere and the most likely place is going to be in the trunk so you're gonna lose a lot of storage space if you pick up a Fusion Energi so make sure you can live with that the way the charge of car is pretty standard for EVs now a day it uses a standard j1 172 which you'll see pretty much every public EB charging station Tesla's the only companies that provide you will be fine trying to plug in anywhere you want it does not have support for the faster DC Chatham Oh charging at least be aware of that if you 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TechnoBuffalo go back to the video so the Ford Fusion Energi combines a lot of technology into a pretty nice-looking package if you're looking for sword the benefits of electric vehicle with the freedom of a standard gas-powered car this is a really really nice option if you drive much farther than 20 miles an hour be aware you are going to have to obviously use that gas engine which is not the most responsive fun type of drive but if you can keep your commute smaller and primarily use the electric side of it you're gonna have a great fun car with plenty of torque so it's not like a cell phone where you just be like hey you can drive this for the next two years a car is a huge huge purchase so you're gonna want to do ton of cross shopping with other competitors in this market and there are a lot of hybrids not necessarily plugins but a lot out there so you guys will tear your thoughts will you think about the Ford Fusion Energi you like the looks of it you like the car I wonder what 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