Navigation for News Categories Ford has written to owners of Escape PHEVs regarding a battery issue. Photo: STR An owner of a Ford hybrid vehicle that has had a problem identified with its battery says it could not have happened at a worse time. Ford said it had written to the owners of some Escape PHEVs regarding a battery issue that could create a fire hazard, if they were fully charged. “A manufacturing defect in one or more of the vehicle’s high voltage battery cells may cause th...