My Ford Escape Hybrid was running primarily electric-only for a stretch of about 6 miles in heavy traffic approaching the Benicia Bridge from Concord yesterday. On a couple of uphill stretches the engine started and ran for maybe 20 seconds and shut down again. I was at speeds from standstill up to about 25mph. I didn't think to reset the mpg reading when I first hit the heavy traffic, which was at 29.6 from the start of a 50 mile trip from San Jose at 70-75mph with three people and some luggage. The overall mpg did go up to 30.8 during the stretch, and then dropped back down to
29.8 shortly after the bridge. That might be 54mpg for the stretch of very slow traffic.Otherwise, the Escape seems to average 26 in rural driving, 31 in city, 29 highway.