Doesn the Ford Escape Hybrid use Toyota Technology?
No! While the patent sharing that goes on between Ford and Toyota has been rather loudly announced on their hybrids, this isn’t a case of Ford using Toyota technology or parts. Most of the auto companies share patents; an agreement that they won’t sue each other for coming up with similar technologies. This is all that’s going on. Each and every system in the FEH is both designed and built in America, all the engineers developed the systems on their own, not sharing, using, or building upon Toyota’s work; it’s entirely original.
