Hybrid Maverick Assists Camping

[Mavster Mechanic]

I have a 17 foot full feature travel trailer.

One night I used the Maverick's built-in 120 VAC inverter to power the 120 VAC outlets in the RV.

Powers a 36" TV, Blu-ray player, Ryobi tool battery charger, any small household accessories. Wife even found a one-slice toaster oven (flat not vertical) that can do personal sized pizzas for under 400 watts.

Key has to be to run. But the gas engine ran for ~5 minutes in 2 hours 20 minutes of run time to recharge the truck.
Trivial, almost immeasurable gasoline was used.

On a different trip, after 6 days and 5 nights being off grid, I wanted to recharge my LiIon coach battery in the travel trailer.

Using the 7-pin regular trailer connector I simply turned the truck on.

I have a built-in coach battery charger, rated "up to 20 amps" but I did not meter what it was actually consuming.

Using "stopwatch" on my phone, I recorded the following:

Ignoring the first random cycle based on HV battery SOC the truck went into a very regular cycle:

HV battery at 30% gas comes on for 1 minute 50 seconds.

HV battery at 40% gas engine off for 17 minutes 20 seconds.

Repeats almost this exact timing for several cycles until I got tired of watching.

Note: HV battery charges 30% to 35% in the first 30 seconds. You can hear the system working. Then you hear it back off, and it takes 80 seconds to charge from 35% to 40%. It's doing this intentionally. Probably to limit battery heating.

I got my 300 Ah coach battery probably 25% recharged in a couple of hours with trivial gasoline use.

I do not have Solar. I probably will never invest in solar so long as I own a hybrid. I don't have a generator. I don't expect to need one. My Maverick is my generator.

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[JasonDroninAround]

I went in looking for a hybrid for this same reason. I do not have a little travel trailer but I thought the idea of using the truck as a little generator was an awesome idea. There were a few other other factors as well. I wanted to use a specific dealership, I wanted the Copilot360 with that advanced cruise control, and I did not have time to wait to order one. There were no hybrids available with these other things in mind. I "ended up" with a Tremor. I am very happy. I didn't realize how much I would enjoy the deep woods dispersed camping and that cruise control is awesome.

 

[Mavster Mechanic]

There's no reason an EcoBoost truck couldn't do the same. It will just use more than "trivial" gasoline.

Estimates:

Hybrid: 0.05 gallons per hour
EB: 0.3 to 0.5 gallons per hour

 

[Maverick123]

Once you have the panels, solar is totally silent and "free" charging. When we boondock we recharge 100% solar and it's more than enough to run everything in the camper except AC. But if there's too much shade or bad weather it's nice to have the hybrid's 400w outlet available to power small items and recharge the trailer batteries - it's WAY quieter than any generator.

 

[Mavster Mechanic]

Maverick is way quieter than a generator AND has 10% or 15% duty cycle.
It is silent "most" of the time.

 

[Cherokee]

I don't have a generator. I don't expect to need one. My Maverick is my generator.

The Maverick Hybrid,
the Swiss Army knife of trucks.
At right there is pretty freakin Kool.
:’P

 

[Prickly Pear]

I know I have seen it discussed but since the topic is hot - did you have to change a setting to keep the truck from going to sleep or was it able to power the outlets and trailer plug without any intervention?

 

[Mavster Mechanic]

I know I have seen it discussed but since the topic is hot - did you have to change a setting to keep the truck from going to sleep or was it able to power the outlets and trailer plug without any intervention?

In a 2022 XLT with key start, no settings to change. It won't timeout with a physical key inserted.

I have heard in push to start truck there is a setting that is easy to toggle on and off to keep or remove the timer.

 

[Maverick123]

I know I have seen it discussed but since the topic is hot - did you have to change a setting to keep the truck from going to sleep or was it able to power the outlets and trailer plug without any intervention?

On 25+ you have to go into the center screen, I forget which menu but there's a place where you can disable the 30 minute idle timeout. Then it'll "idle" (stay in READY mode) and power the outlets for as long as you want

 

[rtphokie]

I powered everything I needed to cover the Artemis launch from the press site at the Kennedy Space Center a few months ago from the 120v power in the cab and bed in my Maverick XLT.

It kept all the camera batteries, lights, and a telescope focused in on the launch pad up and running from sunrise to sunset.

Even loaned some juice to a TV station from Puerto Rico for their Starlink terminal when their portable power station began overheating.

Engine kicked on for a few minutes every 20 minutes or so throughput the day. It was the first time I’d used the inverter that much for that long

 

[Mavster Mechanic]

Nice parking spot!

 

[Timothyd]

Maverick is way quieter than a generator AND has 10% or 15% duty cycle.
It is silent "most" of the time.

One time in the Keys we got in late and had to spend the night with our tent next to a giant RV with the generator running all night. I wish they had had a Maverick.

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