The Fusion Hybrid 1,000-Mile Challenge team took turns driving several routes in and around Washington D.C. over the course of approximately three days and nights this weekend. The results were beyond expectations.
The route involved elevation changes, and ranged from the relatively open George Washington Parkway to a 3-mile stretch in the heart of the city that is clogged with roughly 30 traffic signals.
"The Fusion Hybrid works brilliantly," Gerdes said. "When you don't need acceleration power while driving around town, the gas engine shuts down seamlessly. There's not another hybrid drivetrain in the world that does that as effectively. The Fusion engineering team really knocked it out of the park."
Wayne Gerdes, an engineer from Illinois who coined the term "hypermiling" to describe the mileage-maximizing techniques
Exciting: A two-mode competitive hybrid product from a U.S. based automaker that is getting great reviews and is surpassing real world testing.
A video of the event.
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