Throw away your Scangauges!
I got HobDrive working on my phone. Hobdrive is a car diagnostic app. What makes it stand out from similar apps such as Torque is that it comes with profiles for many hybrids, including the Escape Hybrid. After installing the app, plugging an ELM-27 Bluetooth adapter into the OBDII port, and pairing the phone, a bazillion sensor readouts and calculations were displayed.
For me, the most interesting to see were the State of Charge (SoC) of the hybrid battery, and the activation% of the electronic clutch for the rear wheels. Temperature of things like the coolant and hybrid battery will become more interesting next winter.
Hobdrive makes Scangauges and OBDII code readers obsolete. Hobdrive can display and cancel trouble codes. Hobdrive on a smartphone is far cheaper, elegant and comprehensive than these gizmos. I'll be buying the paid version so I can set up custom gauges for the parameters I want to monitor the most. Anyone who wants to know more than the stock gauges would find this setup useful. Especially hybrid drivers. Hobdrive's website has a list of hundreds of compatible vehicles, many of which have pre-programmed and tested profiles.
You can also get nav units that can either display and control apps (such as Hobdrive) running on your smartphone (via CarPlay, Mirrorlink etc.) or run the apps on the head unit itself (if the HU has an Android OS etc.). That would get rid of the awkward clutter of a phone on a bracket.
This issue particularly addresses the Escape Hybrid, as very few of them were sold with the optional nav unit that displayed hybrid power flow graphics. And that OEM nav unit is expensive, outdated and almost impossible to retrofit into Escapes that never had the option.
Oh, and Hobdrive has an HUD option if you prefer to project the data on your windshield. Cool.
