Around town mpg: 2025 Maverick Hybrid AWD

[Waterick]

My experience; both on our Prius and Maverick, is that you can get better mileage yourself rather than the cruise control. It is best (in general, depending on terrain), to get up to the top speed you desire, then back off and drive on electric power until the ICE starts again. This assumes roads below 50 MPH and no traffic to hold you up.

Sponsored

 

[710-oil-614]

My experience; both on our Prius and Maverick, is that you can get better mileage yourself rather than the cruise control. It is best (in general, depending on terrain), to get up to the top speed you desire, then back off and drive on electric power until the ICE starts again. This assumes roads below 50 MPH and no traffic to hold you up.

This is the way. Hard stop.

Trying to pussy foot it is going to leave you disappointed and piss off every other driver.

 

[JohnCondren1933]

I have a 2025 Maverick XL hybrid all wheel drive. I'm a very gentle driver and love maximizing my mpg. I also have problems keeping it in electric drive. It takes a feather foot.
My question is when the car lists the mpg, in whatever screen you're on, is that MPG only when the gas engine is running or is that the total miles (both gas and electric) divided by gasoline used?

It's counting both electric & gas miles.

 

[JohnCondren1933]

Not to be "that guy", but the 46.2 mpg is over a distance of 3.1 miles?

It's just city drives I don't really go far, Kentucky "cities" are glorified towns except for Louisville where 35% of the state population lives, & Lexington.

 

[ClemsonU88]

Good info, I have never driven a hybrid until I bought my 25 but I’m surprised how hard it is to keep it in electric when starting from a dead stop at a stoplight. I can never keep it in electric with cars behind me I feel like I have to accelerate more and the ICE kicks on.

Yeah, I'll get my beans and try that.

The EV Coach card can help you keep your truck in Electric or Charge mode. The brackets on the Electric widen as you increase your speed/demand. Once it gets to max width (you'll learn when that is pretty quickly), it then switches to Hybrid. It's easy to keep it at the max width once you get used to it.

In Hybrid, when it gets to the minimal/narrowest point, it'll switch back to Electric. Sometimes in Hybrid the two brackets are as close as can be, and it won't switch to Electric. When that happens (say I'm going 35 mph), I give it a little gas and back off immediately and the speed goes up to 36 or 37 mph, and as it falls back to 35 mph, it drops into electric mode and stays there.

DISCLAIMER: You HAVE to make sure you watch the road more than the screen!!

__

__

 

[JD71]

I just drive the thing like I drive any other vehicle. I'm not going to pussy foot it and screw up other traffic to try and get fuel mileage. I do find it a bit too chatty at times. The L/100 kms so far isn't impressing me all that much. I also find the electric doesn't kick in all that often though that's likely due to most of my driving is highway.

The 2024 Mav gasser I traded on the hybrid got pretty close to the same mpg I'm getting with the hybrid. So far, I'm not real impressed. However, it's nowhere near broken in and hopefully it will get better.

 

[ShadowBlack XL440]

Not to be "that guy", but the 46.2 mpg is over a distance of 3.1 miles?

Happy to be this hybrid guy. 53.1 MPG over 40 miles. MY24 XL in ECO mode and not trying for best MPG. Just normal driving on hilly curvy roads.

 

[ClemsonU88]

Please don’t go around trying to hyper mile your Maverick engaging cruise at 15mph and pissing everyone else off on the road.

What if no one else is on the road? No harm in getting the best gas mileage possible when you're all by yourself.

I agree we shouldn't go around slowing everyone down massively just so we can get an extra 2 mpg. Do to others as you'd have them do to you.

Accelerating from 0 to 45 mph at the speed of a Mack truck hauling a full load REALLY annoys most people, so we probably shouldn't do it. BUT if no one else is on the road, knock yourself out; go get some good gas mileage.

 

[710-oil-614]

I just drive the thing like I drive any other vehicle. I'm not going to pussy foot it and screw up other traffic to try and get fuel mileage. I do find it a bit too chatty at times. The L/100 kms so far isn't impressing me all that much. I also find the electric doesn't kick in all that often though that's likely due to most of my driving is highway.

The 2024 Mav gasser I traded on the hybrid got pretty close to the same mpg I'm getting with the hybrid. So far, I'm not real impressed. However, it's nowhere near broken in and hopefully it will get better.

First 1,000 miles of driving I spent a large chunk of it with the HVAC off driving lighter than I ever have and my hand calculated MPG is 29.8 which is about 20% worse than the combined EPA ratings.

Super disappointing to say the least.

 

[ClemsonU88]

First 1,000 miles of driving I spent a large chunk of it with the HVAC off driving lighter than I ever have and my hand calculated MPG is 29.8 which is about 20% worse than the combined EPA ratings.

Super disappointing to say the least.

So far I'm with you. I had a '22 Hybrid XLT and now have a '25 Hybrid XLT. I averaged 43 mpg (hand calculated to 41 mpg) with my '22. With the '25 I'm averaging around 30-33 mpg (I drive gently but not annoyingly gentle). That's 10-13 mpg (25%) less!!!

I got my '22 in July (when it was hot) and started out with great gas mileage. I think I still got 43ish mpg in the winter, but I can't remember. With my '25 I'm getting significantly better mileage on warm days, but there's only been a few of them. Maybe the warm weather will get me back over 40 mpg regularly.

If it stays around 35mpg in the Spring, Ford & I might have to have a discussion.

 

[ShadowBlack XL440]

First 1,000 miles of driving I spent a large chunk of it with the HVAC off driving lighter than I ever have and my hand calculated MPG is 29.8 which is about 20% worse than the combined EPA ratings.

Super disappointing to say the least.

I was really considering the MY25 Hybrid AWD with 4K towing but don't want to give up that much on MPG.

 

[Waterick]

I was really considering the MY25 Hybrid AWD with 4K towing but don't want to give up that much on MPG.

With today's forward moving technology, I don't want to give up any MPG by going to AWD.

 

[GmanGM]

Good info, I have never driven a hybrid until I bought my 25 but I’m surprised how hard it is to keep it in electric when starting from a dead stop at a stoplight. I can never keep it in electric with cars behind me I feel like I have to accelerate more and the ICE kicks on.

This is where my Volt Phev /range extender is better, with larger battery and programing/modes for EV only you can run around town for 40 miles, accelerate, go 80 on highway for 30 miles, whatever w zero concern to the ice kicking in. When it does use up the battery it them behaves more like a hybrid do zero range anxiety. If you want you can reserve some battery for an later ev only section of your drive (I.e make it go to hybrid mode earlier like maybe at 20 miles into the trip so you can go back to ev mode later for 10 miles). I like my maverick hybrid but would prefer it as a phev much more. Last note, not all phev created equal. I tested a Pacifica phev and it behaved more like a hybrid out of the gate, perhaps a change in settings would have helped but because it didn't have stowe&go we quit testing early because we weren't going to buy anyway. I think the "phevs" that are range extenders do better.

 

[GmanGM]

This is where my Volt Phev /range extender is better, with larger battery and programing/modes for EV only you can run around town for 40 miles, accelerate, go 80 on highway for 30 miles, whatever w zero concern to the ice kicking in. When it does use up the battery it them behaves more like a hybrid do zero range anxiety. If you want you can reserve some battery for an later ev only section of your drive (I.e make it go to hybrid mode earlier like maybe at 20 miles into the trip so you can go back to ev mode later for 10 miles). I like my maverick hybrid but would prefer it as a phev much more. Last note, not all phev created equal. I tested a Pacifica phev and it behaved more like a hybrid out of the gate, perhaps a change in settings would have helped but because it didn't have stowe&go we quit testing early because we weren't going to buy anyway. I think the "phevs" that are range extenders do better.

Maybe Ford will offer a range extender version on the v2 maverick or bring the Aussie Ranger version you US?

 

[Scupking]

With today's forward moving technology, I don't want to give up any MPG by going to AWD.

You only lose 2mpg but you gain much more usability specially if you get the tow package.

Sponsored