DEARBORN, MI- Ford Motor Co. expects its C-Max Hybrid to "shake up the hybrid market" with its 45.5 combined miles per gallon.

According to the Dearborn-based automaker, the five-passenger crossover has a projected ratings of 47 mpg city and 44 mpg highway.

“The C-MAX Hybrid builds on Ford’s 20 years of hybrid innovation and fuel-efficient offerings to take on Prius v with better city fuel economy at 47 mpg and at better value – a great chance for us to shake up the hybrid market,” said Raj Nair, group vice president of Ford global product development.

C-Max Hybrid – with a base price of $25,995 -- is part of Ford's first dedicated line of hybrid vehicles and currently available to order at select dealerships. It is one of five electrified vehicles Ford plans to produce in North America in 2012. In addition to C-Max Energi, which is the plug-in version, the other vehicles include Focus Electric, Fusion Hybrid and Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid.

Today about 1 percent of Ford's fleet is electrified, including the Ford Transit Connect Electric. By 2020, Ford anticipates to have 10 to 25 percent of its global fleet electrified with plug-in or hybrid technology.

Of that 2020 lineup, Ford expects hybrids to be 70 percent of the fleet, hybrid-plug-ins to be 20-25 percent and all-electric vehicles to remain a niche market of about 5 percent.

C-Max Hybrid is being produced at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne.