Ford Escape Hybrid (2012 year). Manual — part 6

Battery gauge: Provides
information about the vehicle’s
energy usage.
• ASSIST — Battery provides extra

power to boost the vehicle’s
acceleration.

• CHARGE — Storing extra energy in the battery when coasting or

slowing down.

Odometer: Registers the total miles
(kilometers) of the vehicle.

Refer to Message center in this
chapter on how to switch the
display from Metric to English.

Trip odometer: See TRIP A/B
under Message center in this
chapter.

Tachometer: Indicates the engine
speed in revolutions per minute.
Driving with your tachometer
pointer continuously at the top of
the scale may damage the engine.
The pointer will indicate engine
RPMs when the engine is running
and point at the EV symbol when
the engine is off and the vehicle is
running on pure electrical power.

Fuel gauge: Indicates
approximately how much fuel is left
in the fuel tank (when the ignition
is in the on position). The fuel
gauge may vary slightly when the
vehicle is in motion or on a grade.

Refer to Filling the tank in the
Maintenance and Specifications
chapter for more information.

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MESSAGE CENTER

Your vehicle’s message center is capable of monitoring many vehicle
systems and will alert you to potential vehicle problems and various
conditions with an informational message followed by a long indicator
chime.

The message center display is located in the instrument cluster.

Info

Press the INFO button repeatedly to
cycle through the following features:

TRIP A/B

Registers the distance of individual trips. Press and release INFO button
until the A or B trip appears in the display (this represents the trip
mode). Press and hold the RESET button for two seconds to reset.

Refer to UNITS later in this section to switch the display from Metric to
English.

MYKEY MILES (km) (If programmed)

For more information, refer to MyKey

威 in the Locks and Security

chapter.

MILES (km) TO E

This displays an estimate of approximately how far you can drive with
the fuel remaining in your tank under normal driving conditions.
Remember to turn the ignition off when refueling to allow this feature to
correctly detect the added fuel.

LOW FUEL LEVEL will display when you have approximately 50 miles
(80 km), to empty. Press RESET to clear this warning message. It will
return at approximately 25 miles (40 km), 10 miles (16 km) and 0 miles
(0 km) miles to empty.

Distance to empty is calculated using a running average fuel economy,
which is based on your recent driving history of 500 miles (800 km).
This value is not the same as the average fuel economy display. The
running average fuel economy is re-initialized to a factory default value if
the battery is disconnected.

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AVG MPG (L/100km)

Average fuel economy displays your average fuel economy in miles/gallon
or liters/100 km.

If you calculate your average fuel economy by dividing distance traveled
by gallons of fuel used (liters of fuel used by 100 kilometers traveled),
your figure may be different than displayed for the following reasons:
• Your vehicle was not perfectly level during fill-up
• Differences in the automatic shut-off points on the fuel pumps at

service stations

• Variations in top-off procedure from one fill-up to another
• Rounding of the displayed values to the nearest 0.1 gallon (liter)
1. Drive the vehicle at least 5 miles (8 km) with the speed control
system engaged to display a stabilized average.

2. Record the highway fuel economy for future reference.

It is important to press the RESET button (press and hold RESET for
two seconds in order to reset the function) after setting the speed
control to get accurate highway fuel economy readings.

For more information refer to Essentials of good fuel economy in the
Maintenance and Specifications chapter.

MPG (L/km)

This displays instantaneous fuel economy as a bar graph ranging from

↓

poor economy to

↑ excellent economy.

Your vehicle must be moving to calculate instantaneous fuel economy.
When your vehicle is not moving, this function shows

↓, one or no bars

illuminated. Instantaneous fuel economy cannot be reset.

ELECT ENERGY

Displays the state of charge of the high voltage battery. For normal
operation ELECT ENERGY OK will be displayed.

Blank Screen

The message center display will be blank after cycling through all of the
Info menu items.

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System check and vehicle feature customization

Press the SETUP button repeatedly
to cycle the message center through
the following features:

PRESS RESET FOR ENGLISH
When entering the setup menu and a non-English language has been
selected, this message will be displayed to change back to English.

Press the RESET button to change back to English.

RESET FOR SYSTEM CHECK
When this message appears, press the RESET button and the message
center will begin to cycle through the following systems and provide a
status of the item if needed.
1. OIL LIFE
2. ELEC DRIVE
3. BRAKE SYSTEM
4. LIFTGATE AND GLASS

5. DTE/FUEL LEVEL

6. MYKEY DISTANCE (if a MyKey

威 is programmed)

7. MYKEY(S) PROGRAMMED

8. ADMIN KEYS PROGRAMMED

9. PARK AID (if equipped)

Note: Some systems show a message only if a condition is present.

OIL LIFE
This displays the remaining oil life.

An oil change is required whenever indicated by the message center and
according to the recommended maintenance schedule. USE ONLY
RECOMMENDED ENGINE OILS.

To reset the oil monitoring system to 100% after each oil change,
perform the following:

1. Press and release the SETUP button to display “OIL LIFE XXX%
HOLD RESET = NEW”.

2. Press and hold the RESET button for two seconds and release to reset
the oil life to 100%.
Note: To change oil life 100% value to another value, proceed to Step 3.

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