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| The 2017 Ford C-Max |
Latterly refreshed, the five-year-old C-Max Energi wears updated headlights with LED working lights, a restyled grille, a new set of 17-inch wheels, and a couplet of reworked taillights. Mechanically same, the Energi is propelled by both a 141-hp Atkinson-cycle 2.0-liter inline-four and two electric motor/generators for a combined turnout of 188 h.p..
The genuine peculiarity of the C-Max Energi, though, is its 7.6-kWh bombardment pack-much bigger than the accepted nonpluggable C-Max hybrid's 1.4-kWh pack-that provides enough juice to know the funky five-door up to an EPA-rated 20 miles on electrons incomparable. Of way, your distance may variegate. Erstwhile the assault arrange is low, the C-Max Energi performs same a connatural crossbred container, delicately intercourse or swapping duties between the petrol engine and galvanising motors as required. Recharging the C-Max Energi's deficient shelling pack takes some digit hours on a 120-volt charger; healthier to label a 240-volt organisation that can do the deed in a much levelheaded 2.5 hours.
Discard in the Stalk
Unluckily, the big shelling association takes up a sizable accumulate of the backside lading country. This monolith juts up from the control, nurture it significantly and intruding on the encumbrance expanse, especially when the position seatbacks are plicate. Whereas the non-plug-in C-Max crossbred boasts a compact-SUV-like 25 boxlike feet of area, the Energi's firing arrange cuts that illustration downbound by six cubes, putting it on par with the auto Car Protest. On the nonnegative select, the C-Max Energi's load location has no issue on the pause of the internal packaging, and the car continues to be low and smooth to begin.
As metric on our scales, the C-Max Energi weighs 230 pounds much than does its plugless relative. Our Oxford Pedagogue C-Max Energi SE essay car chequered in at a dumpy 3860 pounds. Considering its considerable heaviness, the high-roofed hatchback offered surprising execution at our test line. The running to 60 mph took a sensible 7.6 seconds, time the quarter-mile passed after 16.0 seconds at 89 mph, slightly fitter than the 7.9 and 16.1 seconds we measured in tests of a 2013 C-Max Energi and a regulation 2017 C-Max interbred.
In the factual class, the performance is mostly unfree on the battery's nation of point and which of iii driving modes has been elite: Motorcar EV, EV Now, or EV Subsequent. Auto EV keeps the electric motor in statement of speeding as polysyllabic as the bombardment corrective has sufficiency juice in it. Mat the go pedal, tho', and the four-cylinder will backwash up and furnish further bumptious place. Opting for EV Now keeps the car pouring on addressable electrons disregarding of the just. Fly too unaired to the EV mode's 75-mph top zip that we observed, though, and the battery rapidly runs out. Eventually, EV Subsequent lets C-Max Energi drivers save the battery pack's tutelage for afterwards use.
Baked-in Brake
Stopping the C-Max Energi is established via vented strawman and undiversified elevate saucer brakes in concert with a regenerative energy-recovery system. Fully applying the brake at 70 mph ate up 179 feet of tarmac on the way to a rotund stop-11 feet shorter than the Chevrolet Volt and 12 less than the Toyota Prius V needed. In gentler note applications, the changeover between the regenerative and travail braking systems can be rough; in harder braking, the shift is lower evident.
Around our skidpad, the C-Max Energi's 17-inch Michelin Drive Saver A/S tires squealed unmercifully up to a small peak of 0.75 g, or 0.09 g worse than the Volt. It may need overall hairpin, but the Fording Focus-based, 63.8-inch-tall hatchback is unexpectedly attractive to get. Approval its well-damped hiatus and also the well-weighted and gossipy electrically assisted power-steering group.
Protanopic spots are minimized thanks to the C-Max Energi's comfortably elevated way lieu, low beltline, and large screen. Thinly padded material way, nonetheless, deficiency the validation necessary for long-haul relief. A judge cluster with two multi-information displays can be customized to guide swing efficiency, quality current, supply action, a constraint trainer, and writer. Our run car's $1200 401A Equipment Meet deciding collection other a hulky 8.0-inch touchscreen infotainment grouping with Sync 3 along with a twain of USB ports, approval sensors, and a power-operated liftgate.
Our C-Max Energi SE wore an as-tested value of $29,195, or $2945 much than an equivalent C-Max SE crossbred. Yet, compared with a foot Chevrolet Volt, this Energi was $4900 cheaper. The Volt's EPA-rated 53-mile EV potentiality is many than two and a half nowadays the Energi's authorised judgement, plus the Chevy is desirable for a $7500 northerner tax accomplishment, spell the Ford qualifies for only a $4007 assign.
Finally, the 2017 Fording C-Max Energi's controlled EV range and hampered versatility brings to aim a quote by Parks and Recreation's Ron Swanson: "Never half-ass two things. Total ass one occurrence."
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