

The 2019 Ford EcoSport was rated by the EPA at 27 mpg city, 29 highway, 28 combined in its most efficient powertrain configuration: front-wheel drive and a 1.0-liter turbo-3.

That leaves the newly released EcoSport and coming Focus Active to vie as Ford’s most fuel-efficient models sold without a plug. will be the Focus Active crossover, although its powertrain lineup isn’t yet finalized. Although Ford has said that the Bronco would feature an electrified powertrain along with the Escape, Explorer, and F-150, no details have yet been released.Īccording to Ford spokesman Michael Levine, the only Focus small car available in the U.S. This year, Ford moved production of its Focus from Michigan to make way for the new Ranger pickup and to make room for a coming Bronco SUV. The most frugal Fiesta, featuring a turbo-3, was discontinued in 2017 too. Ford already pulled the Taurus’s most fuel-efficient version in 2018, which was the turbo-4, front-wheel-drive model. The fuel-sipping Fiesta will end production in May 2019 and the Taurus will finish shortly before, in March 2019. The hybrid and plug-in hybrid Ford Fusion have finite futures too, although the automaker didn’t specify when Fusion production would end. A spokesman for Ford confirmed that the Focus BEV will not return for another generation. Currently, Ford’s only battery-electric car sold in the world is the Focus Electric, which is headed for extinction and sold in very small numbers in limited locations.
