Highway MPG: 2025 Hybrid AWD, 4k tow package

[vandeda2024]

Did my first long highway drive.

Trip down was 208 miles, indicated mpg was 39.7 mpg with an average speed of 61.5 mph. I'd guess 50% about 70 mph, about 40% at 60 mph, and 10% at 30 mph.

Trip home, same route, i dropped 78 miles that was in traffic that slowed us to 45 mph average. Last 127 miles had 64 mpg average, with 80% at 70 mph. Indicated mpg was 38.3 mpg.

Average two way 39 mpg.

I had 430.8 miles on this tank of gas with an indicated 40.3 mpg. I filled up at the same exact gas station on way down and way back. Took 11.23 gallons, or calculated actual 38.4 mpg (just like my Prius v that was almost exactly 2 mpg optimistic).

Therefore, adjusting for the mpg bias, my highway mpg was 37 mpg. I'd say that's pretty darn good and I was very pleasantly surprised.

Sponsored

 

[inline_five]

Did my first long highway drive.

Trip down was 208 miles, indicated mpg was 39.7 mpg with an average speed of 61.5 mph. I'd guess 50% about 70 mph, about 40% at 60 mph, and 10% at 30 mph.

Trip home, same route, i dropped 78 miles that was in traffic that slowed us to 45 mph average. Last 127 miles had 64 mpg average, with 80% at 70 mph. Indicated mpg was 38.3 mpg.

Average two way 39 mpg.

I had 430.8 miles on this tank of gas with an indicated 40.3 mpg. I filled up at the same exact gas station on way down and way back. Took 11.23 gallons, or calculated actual 38.4 mpg (just like my Prius v that was almost exactly 2 mpg optimistic).

Therefore, adjusting for the mpg bias, my highway mpg was 37 mpg. I'd say that's pretty darn good and I was very pleasantly surprised.

I have a '23 hybrid and do ~360 mile round trip highway trips. Cruise control set to 70 mph and I do that basically 98% of the way. I get ~37 mpg in the summer with tire psi at 40-42. In winter I get around 29.

So, your numbers check out.

 

[Escapologist]

Did my first long highway drive.

Trip down was 208 miles, indicated mpg was 39.7 mpg with an average speed of 61.5 mph. I'd guess 50% about 70 mph, about 40% at 60 mph, and 10% at 30 mph.

Trip home, same route, i dropped 78 miles that was in traffic that slowed us to 45 mph average. Last 127 miles had 64 mpg average, with 80% at 70 mph. Indicated mpg was 38.3 mpg.

Average two way 39 mpg.

I had 430.8 miles on this tank of gas with an indicated 40.3 mpg. I filled up at the same exact gas station on way down and way back. Took 11.23 gallons, or calculated actual 38.4 mpg (just like my Prius v that was almost exactly 2 mpg optimistic).

Therefore, adjusting for the mpg bias, my highway mpg was 37 mpg. I'd say that's pretty darn good and I was very pleasantly surprised.

Thanks for the post, I want to be in something similar. Tell me though, did you end up with copilot360 in a 4K XL or not? Seen two differing things, one that all 4K tow have to have copilot, and one that 4k tow on an XLT or Lariat have to have copilot... leaving me wondering.

I was thinking I should maybe keep it simple with an XL, but then realised that some of the point of having an AWD was letting my wife take it on the super bad winter days, and she'll want heated seats and wheel and that's XLT luxury pkg at least *sigh*

 

[vandeda2024]

Yup, 4k required co-pilot in the XL. I ordered it last August. I assume the same requirement applies now. The build tool on Ford's website will let you know for sure when you select 4k tow package.

Thanks for the post, I want to be in something similar. Tell me though, did you end up with copilot360 in a 4K XL or not? Seen two differing things, one that all 4K tow have to have copilot, and one that 4k tow on an XLT or Lariat have to have copilot... leaving me wondering.

I was thinking I should maybe keep it simple with an XL, but then realised that some of the point of having an AWD was letting my wife take it on the super bad winter days, and she'll want heated seats and wheel and that's XLT luxury pkg at least *sigh*

 

[wb5oxq]

On my 23 Lariat EB AWD 4K tow I typically get an indicated 39-41mpg at 70mph and fillup typically shows 39.5mpg highway summer with A/C on. Intown 20-24mpg. This is after intake and exhaust mods. About 10% higher than stock.

 

[Wilklersticks]

My state's highway speed limit is 70 and, hot take, I hate it, lol. The difference in MPG for me in simply going the speed limit 70 vs 65 is a ton of gas. I just did a 500-ish round trip at 71-72 the whole way and got around 33-34. I know this is still great MPG compared to a lot of vehicles, much less a truck, but still gets me a little sad I could be doing better! Need to save all I can with this stupid bill in the works!

 

[heady]

Those of you with the super mileage should really join Fuelly so the results can speak for themselves to a broad audience; the EcoBoost averages, Based on data from 35 vehicles, 1,730 fuel-ups and 552,007 miles of driving, the 2022 Ford Maverick 2.0 gets a combined Avg MPG of 24.76 with a 0.24 MPG margin of error, and for the hybrids (FWD only for that model year), based on data from 21 vehicles, 1,223 fuel-ups and 527,072 miles of driving, the 2022 Ford Maverick gets a combined Avg MPG of 36.27 with a 0.28 MPG margin of error, so some on the forums probably have the most efficient trucks on the planet by a *wide* margin

 

[nbmav]

I have a 70 mile round trip commute of which all of it except 2 miles is highway and half of it with 70 limit. So for half the commute I'm at about 80 and the rest about 70 and with the limited number of fill ups so far (only 4) as I've only got 1400 on the clock I've been getting 34-35. I just got back from a 600 mile trip where the limits were lower and I was getting 36-41.

 

[vandeda2024]

Those of you with the super mileage should really join Fuelly so the results can speak for themselves to a broad audience; the EcoBoost averages, Based on data from 35 vehicles, 1,730 fuel-ups and 552,007 miles of driving, the 2022 Ford Maverick 2.0 gets a combined Avg MPG of 24.76 with a 0.24 MPG margin of error, and for the hybrids (FWD only for that model year), based on data from 21 vehicles, 1,223 fuel-ups and 527,072 miles of driving, the 2022 Ford Maverick gets a combined Avg MPG of 36.27 with a 0.28 MPG margin of error, so some on the forums probably have the most efficient trucks on the planet by a *wide* margin

Maybe conditions were in my favor those two days that skewed results. I'm not sure. But I was still pleasantly surprised. The Prius v (the "v" was the wagon) typically got about 41 mpg down and 39 back (indicated, or 39 / 37 actual), but the Maverick gets me slightly more interior space, AWD, quieter (especially a lot less racket from the engine), and way more utility for, so far, only a small penalty in mpg.

 

[heady]

I think it sounds about right given the speeds and conditions, you posted results at the pump that are well within the distribution for the hybrids. You can see the "twin peaks" that form over 7+ million reported miles based on the two different engines, 38 mpg is actually the mode average for the hybrid results vs. the 36.xx mean average:

.

 

[The Real Maverick]

Those of you with the super mileage should really join Fuelly so the results can speak for themselves to a broad audience; the EcoBoost averages, Based on data from 35 vehicles, 1,730 fuel-ups and 552,007 miles of driving, the 2022 Ford Maverick 2.0 gets a combined Avg MPG of 24.76 with a 0.24 MPG margin of error, and for the hybrids (FWD only for that model year), based on data from 21 vehicles, 1,223 fuel-ups and 527,072 miles of driving, the 2022 Ford Maverick gets a combined Avg MPG of 36.27 with a 0.28 MPG margin of error, so some on the forums probably have the most efficient trucks on the planet by a *wide* margin

Here's the thing:

It's a truck. So (spoiler alert) sometimes I use it for truck stuff.

I put 1300 lbs in the bed. Often.
I've towed a 3200 lb. High Profile trailer about 8,000 miles.

My light weight city no cargo MPG is routinely up around 53 MPG. I've gone over 800 miles on a tank of gas two times. I've gone over 700 miles per tank two dozen times.

When towing, I sometimes get 18 MPG.

So a "Fuelly" grand average is not going to tell the whole story, now is it?

 

[heady]

Here's the thing:

It's a truck. So (spoiler alert) sometimes I use it for truck stuff.

I put 1300 lbs in the bed. Often.
I've towed a 3200 lb. High Profile trailer about 8,000 miles.

My light weight city no cargo MPG is routinely up around 53 MPG. I've gone over 800 miles on a tank of gas two times. I've gone over 700 miles per tank two dozen times.

When towing, I sometimes get 18 MPG.

So a "Fuelly" grand average is not going to tell the whole story, now is it?

That's the great thing about fuel logs, you can see them for each trip/tank as well as the average, and people put notes in fuel logs, explaining things like trip conditions, speed, weather, and payload/towing. I keep two separate logs for all my vehicles on Fuelly, one for towing, and one for non-towing - just so I can have a simple way to see the averages for each.

It all averages out in the end har har har.

 

[G Ma Jeanne]

Maybe conditions were in my favor those two days that skewed results. I'm not sure. But I was still pleasantly surprised. The Prius v (the "v" was the wagon) typically got about 41 mpg down and 39 back (indicated, or 39 / 37 actual), but the Maverick gets me slightly more interior space, AWD, quieter (especially a lot less racket from the engine), and way more utility for, so far, only a small penalty in mpg.

I intentionally go under 45 on our high-speed roads if possible and usually average over 38 mi per gallon in hybrid. That said, we picked up a 2,300 lb teardrop trailer over the weekend. As far as actually towing, the 65 mile ride from the dealership reduced our mileage to 15.6 miles per gallon.

 

[WJOHNM]

On my 23 Lariat EB AWD 4K tow I typically get an indicated 39-41mpg at 70mph and fillup typically shows 39.5mpg highway summer with A/C on. Intown 20-24mpg. This is after intake and exhaust mods. About 10% higher than stock.

I had a 22 XLT EB FX4 4KTow Lux for 3 years local driving could only get 17/20 mpg BUT on a 100-mile trip I do on weekends a lot with the cruse set at 68/69 around 2k rpm on expressway I can get 38mpg pretty consistently, how do you figure that? My new Lariat AWD 4Ktow hybrid at same speed and miles I get 39.5 and 41.3 local driving. There must be a break in period on the hybrids because the first 300/400 miles I couldn't get 30mpg local driving now at 550miles am getting in the 40s mpg as high as 46 local driving every day driving normal at old man speeds not holding up traffic.

 

[Timothyd]

Did my first long highway drive.

Trip down was 208 miles, indicated mpg was 39.7 mpg with an average speed of 61.5 mph. I'd guess 50% about 70 mph, about 40% at 60 mph, and 10% at 30 mph.

Trip home, same route, i dropped 78 miles that was in traffic that slowed us to 45 mph average. Last 127 miles had 64 mpg average, with 80% at 70 mph. Indicated mpg was 38.3 mpg.

Average two way 39 mpg.

I had 430.8 miles on this tank of gas with an indicated 40.3 mpg. I filled up at the same exact gas station on way down and way back. Took 11.23 gallons, or calculated actual 38.4 mpg (just like my Prius v that was almost exactly 2 mpg optimistic).

Therefore, adjusting for the mpg bias, my highway mpg was 37 mpg. I'd say that's pretty darn good and I was very pleasantly surprised.

Sponsored