Detroit - Ford himself said in their calculations, if the owner of the Ford Fusion Hybrid used cars normally within a period of 5 years, then this car could potentially help motorists to save about U.S. $ 6,850 or approximately USD 66 million when compared to conventional engine vehicles.
The company also said that they do a hybrid car sales at record pace with more than 19,000 units expected to be sold throughout the year.
"In fact, the C-MAX becomes fastest-selling hybrid has sold up to 8030 units in October and November, two months of the first C-MAX in the marketplace," the company said as quoted by the New York Times.
After being sued because they sold the dream as an economical car, car manufacturers to prove that their hybrid car is fuel efficient. In recent testing, the Ford Fusion Energy plug-in hybrid scoring efficiency rate of up to 42 km / liter.
The figure was printed by the Ford Fusion Energy plug-in hybrid models in 2013 were tested according to the standard methods of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
In testing, the Fusion Energy efficiency is to score points in the city to 92 mpg or 39.1 km / liter.
While the efficiency rate at higher motorway reaching 108 mpg, or about 45.9 km / liter. So if averaged, the efficiency of this car is 100 mpg or 42.5 km / liter.
Ford's test results as a federal lawsuit against the current as they face before failing to substantiate claims fuel efficiency of their two cars, C-Max and Fusion, as advertised.
Two cars 2013 model year Ford has an efficiency that advertised 47 mpg or about 19.9 km / liter, but the penggutat class action in the Eastern District Court of California said that Ford's marketing campaign was false and misleading.
Plaintiff, Richard Pitkin of Roseville, California, wants Ford to pay back a car that he and other car owners and cancel the purchase.
While McCuneWright law firm handling the case also wants Ford to stop false advertising and misinformation fix it.
These same law firm has filed a class action lawsuit against Hyundai-Kia over the same issue and sue Toyota over unintended acceleration cases that had a scene.
In testing the 'real world' does Consumer Reports magazine, a hybrid C-Max is only able to record the level of efficiency of 37 mpg or 15.7 km / liter, 21 percent lower than Ford claims.
While Fusion in testing only recorded 39 mpg or 16.5 km / liter or 8 mpg less than the claims of Ford. In fact, 80 percent of cars tested this magazine usually only about 2 mpg disputing claims by the same method that was also done by the manufacturer of the EPA method.
For differences on these results, EPA said that they will review the results of both.
"In advertising and marketing campaigns for cars, Ford claims that the C-Max Hybrid and Fusion Hybrid reached 47 miles per gallon," said the firm in a lawsuit McCuneWright.
"These materials are helping Ford achieve record sales for the two months of the first C-Max Hybrid, defeating his rival, Toyota hybrid (above) led the sales, but there is a problem. Ads are false," lugasnya.
