Mileage for 7-2000 mile trips in first 7 months!

[TxSeoul]

I’ve seen some posts about mileage, just thought I’d share mine. 2022 Lariat Powerboost BAP. I’ve had the truck for 7-8 months, got it used with 13k miles. She has now just cleared 30k mostly with 7 work trips that were all about 1000-1100 miles from where I live in northern Colorado. 3 each to Wisconsin and Texas, 1 to SoCal.

Been holding at 20 mpg even overall and I have the 36 gallon fuel tank. I have the stock 20” wheels with American Made Cooper Discoverer AT3s for shoes. About 500 lbs of work crap and myself for roughly 675 lbs on the payload. So far the truck has been 9/10 overall for me. 2 issues which to me are minor but a pain due to lead time was the switching mech for the electric motor went bad (3 month wait) and recently my ac cuts out if the truck has an extended climb and has to downshift. After it cuts out it takes 30-45 minutes to start blowing again. Figured out if I leave it off on the climbs and turn back on after leveling out a bit, ac works fine. Again not a huge deal but can get aggravating if driving for 12+ hours…in summer…in the friggin desert lol. Low speeds or parked no issues at all, and the air is always cold. A/c clutch issue maybe? I’ll be taking her to the dealer once I get some time off.

Also was able to get an extended warranty through local dealer who price matched the online quote from Ziegeler that I found on this forum. I really liking the community and all the resources and appreciate everyone sharing knowledge.

This was my last trip to SoCal going straight through the Rockies on I-70. Really happy all things considered, it’s not a lot of straight and flat roads until Utah lol. 75-85 mph when not in the mountains

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[HammaMan]

If you have a powerboost as your profile says, your AC is electric. If your AC is cutting out, it's actually diverting its cooling to the battery via a plate heat exchanger that's a "2nd zone" of sorts on the AC loop. If you're not towing its demand shouldn't even begin to warrant that level of cooling. I'd contact ford to have it looked into (call customer service, not have wrench monkeys poke at it)

On the 2021s, ford had a twin rad stacked cooler for the low-temp circuit. Starting in 2022 they went to a single rad design. That rad cools the water before it enters the AC coolant side of things. the HV/low temp loop is a silly design of sorts that splits off into 2 sections exiting the rad before joining back up as it enters it.

Early design

Vs current

 

[TxSeoul]

Thanks for the info much appreciated. By calling customer service do you mean the general 1800 number for ford? Sorry I’m a new ford owner and haven’t tried calling anyone just yet

 

[HammaMan]

Yes, it'd be nice if the PB got the same level of attention as the EVs did with their own discrete team and escalation capabilities.

Call the 800 # and tell them that you're unhappy that normal driving in the desert causes your cabin cooling to cut out while it diverts cooling to the battery.

 

[Samson16]

Excellent post. Small note: All PowerBoosts have a 30.6 gallon fuel tank. The 36 gallon tank exists but not for us.

 

[TxSeoul]

Must have fat fingered that 36 when editing. Thanks tho I didn’t know if the 30.6 was standard or not for the pb

 

[gh8toes]

I’ve seen some posts about mileage, just thought I’d share mine. 2022 Lariat Powerboost BAP. I’ve had the truck for 7-8 months, got it used with 13k miles. She has now just cleared 30k mostly with 7 work trips that were all about 1000-1100 miles from where I live in northern Colorado. 3 each to Wisconsin and Texas, 1 to SoCal.

Been holding at 20 mpg even overall and I have the 36 gallon fuel tank. I have the stock 20” wheels with American Made Cooper Discoverer AT3s for shoes. About 500 lbs of work crap and myself for roughly 675 lbs on the payload. So far the truck has been 9/10 overall for me. 2 issues which to me are minor but a pain due to lead time was the switching mech for the electric motor went bad (3 month wait) and recently my ac cuts out if the truck has an extended climb and has to downshift. After it cuts out it takes 30-45 minutes to start blowing again. Figured out if I leave it off on the climbs and turn back on after leveling out a bit, ac works fine. Again not a huge deal but can get aggravating if driving for 12+ hours…in summer…in the friggin desert lol. Low speeds or parked no issues at all, and the air is always cold. A/c clutch issue maybe? I’ll be taking her to the dealer once I get some time off.

Also was able to get an extended warranty through local dealer who price matched the online quote from Ziegeler that I found on this forum. I really liking the community and all the resources and appreciate everyone sharing knowledge.

This was my last trip to SoCal going straight through the Rockies on I-70. Really happy all things considered, it’s not a lot of straight and flat roads until Utah lol. 75-85 mph when not in the mountains

Don't trust the MPG gauges in the truck. I reset mine at every fill up and also log the mileage and gallons used to refill it. EVERY time, the gauges overstate the mileage. Last fill-up the gauges said I averaged 19.8 mpg for 287 miles of driving. Using my calculator for the 15.9 gallons to fill it, that works out to be 18.05 mpg. My truck now has just over 1000 miles on it and I have had 4 fill-ups. In each case, the gauge reading of mpg was overstated by 1.5+ mpg. Don't know if this is intentional on the part of Ford to make us feel better about our trucks or faulty metering used to calculate mpg.

How close is everyone else's real mpg to the gauge readings?

 

[Dizz]

I don’t have the power boost just 22 with 2.7 and yes the lie-o-meter is exactly like yours usually 1.5mpg optimistic
One time it actually did the opposite
So weird because my Hondas and Toyotas are spot on
Some mention reprogramming with a calculation factor to correct this but if Ford can’t make it work I don’t want to try but since I know the error….

 

[National Superbike]

My 23 2.7 is always 1.5 to 2.0 mpg optimistic. But I am getting 22-23 real mpg consistently so pretty happy with it.

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