Electrical Shock Ford Escape Hybrid

Our 2005 Ford Escape Hybrid is at the dealer for the 2nd time in a few months for the same problem which they can't recreate: when exiting the front passenger door, you get an electric shock. Not a minor static electricity shock, but a real bona fide open current running through your body thing. The dealer can't find a problem and can only point to environmental conditions like dry air. In fact, the service guy has a Ford 500 and says he's been getting shocked in his car on the driver's side and can't figure it out. Has anyone else experienced this?

I haven't had it occur in my non-hybrid escape, but the windstar we had before it used to shock us all the time when we would get out. Just the drivers door. Touch your leg to the door or rocker panel and zap. And it was not a static shock. It would be the same shock as putting a screwdriver across the connections on the back of the alternator. (Accidentally happened once, you never forget it) The van got totally, so I never got a chance to try and fix it. But I wanted you to know it probably isn't just hybrid related.

The driver's door is consistent with what our Ford service rep said happened to him on his non-hybrid 500. And - yes - the shock my daughter received on two separate occasions was far more than static shock. It was consistent with being electrocuted (like you said, you never forget it) in that she felt it go up her arm to her elbow and felt the aftereffects for several minutes thereafter. Both times it happened to her as she was closing the passenger door... so she was outside the vehicle... and only touching the door for a moment to close it, so luckily she didn't maintain contact for a long time or she could have been really burned. After we brought the car in the first time and they couldn't replicate the situation, we took the car back. But after this last incident, we're leaving the car there until they figure it out.