Fuel Mileage, Just WOW!!!

[MavMeister25]

They both lower it. The thing about the wind is, you're pushing a vehicle down the highway that mor or less has the aerodynamics of refrigerator.

Much better mileage with the heater off and moving at speeds of 55 mph or below.

Still, I'm averaging 40mpg in 21k miles of driving. And other than software updates, absolutely no problems requiring a dealer visit, yet. Very pleased with the Hybrid Maverick in terms of fuel economy and reliability.

That’s great mileage. Since the majority of my driving is either 80+ mph, or less than 35 mph for very short trips, I get the worst average mpg possible. After 2k miles my meter is reading 37.5 mph but actual calculated mpg is 35.5. Still great for a truck. But it’s a shame I rarely drive in the sweet spot of 40-60 mph for trips lasting more than 15 min.

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[dee2400]

I know everyone here is talking about the hybrid, but I want to put in a good word for the ecoboost engine. My truck is averaging between 29 and 30 mpg. That is the best of any gas engine truck I have ever owned and I have owned over 10 trucks in my lifetime. The last truck I had was a 2010 Ford Ranger and it averaged 21.6 mpg in mixed driving. I think the hybrid and ecoboost are both great trucks.

Id be over the moon if I could achieve that MPG. I only have 535 on the odo right now, so she's still warming up. Good to see it's achievable though

 

[The Real Maverick]

Made a trip with my 24 hybrid towing a car dolly 300 miles day/night in 50 degree weather. Stopped at a motel. Traffic good most of the way. Rain and heavy traffic around Atlanta. Did not stop for gas. Purchased a new truck (chevy). I averaged 35 miles per gallon 70 percent interstate rest hiway . Truck towed my Maverick Home using the dolly. Take away from almost a year of owner. Absolutely like this truck! my mileage at home county/town 46 mpg. The idea that I can go 1 to 10 miles if there is a engine failure pleases me greatly. Would like to have had this truck in my commuting days

If "the engine fails" or just runs out of gas....

You CAN drive on electricity alone.
But it will be at 25 mph and slower.
Distance will be based on battery charge at the exact moment the engine shuts off, and can be greatly variable.

You are pretty much guaranteed to get at least half a mile.

About 90% chance you can go 1 mile.

About 50/50 chance you can go 2 miles.

About 10% chance you can go 2.5 miles.

About 1% chance you can go 3 miles on electricity alone.

*assumes flat terrain and mild weather and you can drive without stop signs or stoplights.

 

[710-oil-614]

If "the engine fails" or just runs out of gas....

You CAN drive on electricity alone.
But it will be at 25 mph and slower.
Distance will be based on battery charge at the exact moment the engine shuts off, and can be greatly variable.

You are pretty much guaranteed to get at least half a mile.

About 90% chance you can go 1 mile.

About 50/50 chance you can go 2 miles.

About 10% chance you can go 2.5 miles.

About 1% chance you can go 3 miles on electricity alone.

*assumes flat terrain and mild weather and you can drive without stop signs or stoplights.

I’ve made it to 34mph without ICE kicking on.

 

[The Real Maverick]

I’ve made it to 34mph without ICE kicking on.

With no gas in the tank and error codes????

When you run out of gas it goes into limp home mode.

I've gotten 0-50 mph plus EV in normal conditions with a slight downgrade. And up to 82 mph in EV coasting down an interstate.

 

[Daverick]

You CAN learn to get 55 MPG summer.

Lots of us hybrid owners do.

Can confirm!

 

[Cactus Coupe]

Just became a member. '24 Hybrid XL. Loving this truck. I love the steel rim look. It drives really nice. I love how loud the horn is. I'm getting 45 mpg average, but haven't drove in winter yet. I know it will average down. I've always drove f-150s since 95, last one an 18. They are getting excessively expensive, too big and rather boring. I sold my boat, so I don't tow anymore. Maverick is a much needed truck diet. My son, brother, and I all have the same exact truck except colors. We call ourselves the Maverick gang.

It's funny to me the different associations with the name, like all the Topgun references. I was born in the 70's and my Grandmother had a Comet (Mercury's version), and my brothers first car in the 80's was a Maverick. So that's my association with the brand. I think Ford missed out not calling it the Ranchero!

 

[mikehailwood]

Just became a member. '24 Hybrid XL. Loving this truck. I love the steel rim look. It drives really nice. I love how loud the horn is. I'm getting 45 mpg average, but haven't drove in winter yet. I know it will average down. I've always drove f-150s since 95, last one an 18. They are getting excessively expensive, too big and rather boring. I sold my boat, so I don't tow anymore. Maverick is a much needed truck diet. My son, brother, and I all have the same exact truck except colors. We call ourselves the Maverick gang.

It's funny to me the different associations with the name, like all the Topgun references. I was born in the 70's and my Grandmother had a Comet (Mercury's version), and my brothers first car in the 80's was a Maverick. So that's my association with the brand. I think Ford missed out not calling unit the Ranchero!

Yes. I was pulling for Ranchero too.

 

[The Real Maverick]

Gawd I love doing this...

50/50 city and highway.
62 mph max on the highway.

Hills in the middle but no net elevation change.

62.1% of 41.5 miles engine off.
Some of the time I was standing still at lights. About 15 stoplights is my guess.

~80% of the elapsed time engine was off.

People should not be shocked I go more than 10,000 odometer miles on an oil change.

 

[Escapologist]

My plan is to do the same with the Mav as I did with my Prius V. In the Prius, Trip A was my lifetime mileage. I never reset it, except when the battery was disconnected, which was very rarely. Therefore, Trip A indicated mpg over tens of thousands of miles. Trip B was for each tankful. For the Mav, I plan to do the same and have Trip 1 for "lifetime", and Trip 2 for each tankful. That way, I capture whole gamut of highway, city, summer, winter, and everything in-between.

Haven't got my Mav yet, but everything in electronics and dash looks identical on the 25s as in mainly my wife's DD 2025 Escape PHEV, where we have been advised that the trip counters labelled 1 and 2, reset at 10,000km, i.e. they rollover to 0 from 9999, we haven't quite got there yet on our long term. I do not know if they truly reset and count from scratch or what. i.e. lose the mpg calculation or carry it on for past xxxx miles data.

Also, only viewable on the big screen there's a panel with gas mileage and pic of car, that hasn't seemed to budge. IDK if it's a reference for rental use, so ppl can guess where they'll wanna stop for gas when they're blowing down the highway at 75mph (because it seems to be the highest hybrid mode only number)

On this, the "this trip" screen that comes up when you park, seems inaccurate. It can be over 10% optimistic. Whereas using the 2nd trip for a tank count seems to be within a percent or two of manual calculation of odometer to pumped gas. Which is probably the error in the fill from where the pump chooses to cut off.

I have managed to get 2 miles across town in hybrid only, can tell that by the EV trainer bars moving from expansive to closer, kina about the difference between landscape and portrait if you were turning the average screen around. When they're wide, there's main batt left, even if it's showing 0 range right now, still can bottom that out a bit.... but anyway, on just the regular hybrid batt, I can nurse it "the flat way" across town for 2 miles. It's 30mph all the way there.

Anyway, for what the displays do and hybrid mode I'd expect much the same on a 25 mav. The body might be more aero, but it sits taller so might have similar cDA not sure, and it's FWD, so AWDs will not directly compare, but anyway, my dear wife is a bit of a "leadfoot lil" and her worst highway flits back from work on no plugin left tend to about 38mpg worst, 43mpg best. I have driven a few shorter highways trips and can hold it to near 50, no plugin assist.

Will be super interesting to have a more direct comparo to an AWD hybrid Mav... if I can find one.

 

[Escapologist]

The sales staff should tell first time hybrid owners that real cold weather and hybrids don’t play well together and that there is an operator learning curve.
But they’d get fired if they did that.
If I was Ford I’d have some kind of pod cast or YouTube on the subject.

There was a dealership guy did one for the c-max that was on youtube. Will have to go look see if he's done a Mav one.

ETA: ...

Found the one I was thinking of, unfortunately they stopped adding to that channel some 10+ years ago so no maverick stuff. They also have playlists of Cmax demo/tips and other older hybrid things if you check their channel page... anyhoo just this one for "the operator learning curve" relevance...

 

[The Real Maverick]

Haven't got my Mav yet, but everything in electronics and dash looks identical on the 25s as in mainly my wife's DD 2025 Escape PHEV, where we have been advised that the trip counters labelled 1 and 2, reset at 10,000km, i.e. they rollover to 0 from 9999, we haven't quite got there yet on our long term. I do not know if they truly reset and count from scratch or what. i.e. lose the mpg calculation or carry it on for past xxxx miles data.

Also, only viewable on the big screen there's a panel with gas mileage and pic of car, that hasn't seemed to budge. IDK if it's a reference for rental use, so ppl can guess where they'll wanna stop for gas when they're blowing down the highway at 75mph (because it seems to be the highest hybrid mode only number)

On this, the "this trip" screen that comes up when you park, seems inaccurate. It can be over 10% optimistic. Whereas using the 2nd trip for a tank count seems to be within a percent or two of manual calculation of odometer to pumped gas. Which is probably the error in the fill from where the pump chooses to cut off.

I have managed to get 2 miles across town in hybrid only, can tell that by the EV trainer bars moving from expansive to closer, kina about the difference between landscape and portrait if you were turning the average screen around. When they're wide, there's main batt left, even if it's showing 0 range right now, still can bottom that out a bit.... but anyway, on just the regular hybrid batt, I can nurse it "the flat way" across town for 2 miles. It's 30mph all the way there.

Anyway, for what the displays do and hybrid mode I'd expect much the same on a 25 mav. The body might be more aero, but it sits taller so might have similar cDA not sure, and it's FWD, so AWDs will not directly compare, but anyway, my dear wife is a bit of a "leadfoot lil" and her worst highway flits back from work on no plugin left tend to about 38mpg worst, 43mpg best. I have driven a few shorter highways trips and can hold it to near 50, no plugin assist.

Will be super interesting to have a more direct comparo to an AWD hybrid Mav... if I can find one.

In the 2022-2024 XL and XLT (no one confirmed for Lariat) the trucks only hold about 5,000 miles / 10 tanks of MPG fuel data.

The memory is finite and FIFO.
First In, First Out.

The oldest data is overwritten.
And yes, the trip odometers only go to 9999 then start over.

No "lifetime" records are kept in the vehicle, so if that's important to you, manually keep records.

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