Despite our own actual experiences with the car, it turns out the EPA certified the Ford Fusion Hybrid on Tuesday at 41 miles per gallon in the city and 36 mpg on the highway, results that are actually better than the company was expecting. Those numbers put the Fusion Hybrid several mpg ahead of the (29/40 w/DSG transmission) Volkswagen Jetta TDI Clean Diesel, which also uses more expensive diesel fuel and has dirtier emissions. The numbers even tiptoe into Honda Civic Hybrid range.

AutoWeek reports that Ford made the announcement after finishing testing at its lab in Allen Park, Mich., this week; a Ford spokesman later confirmed that the near-identical Milan hybrid twin received the same rating from the EPA. The report said that the Fusion hybrid could theoretically travel up to 700 miles on a single tank of fuel and run in all-electric mode at speeds up to 47 mph.