Understood, and mostly agree. It hasn't been as good as what I hoped for either. Though I'm coming from a 4Runner that got terrible mileage, so it's still an improvement. I think they biased the hybrid to the power side rather than the efficiency side, perhaps with an eye to not competing as much against the Lightning.
Your gauges resetting..... You think maybe your truck has recently received an OTA update or two?
Oh yeah, it’s for sure the length of your trip in this case. No hybrid does well on short trips in winter - the engine has to run to heat the cabin and the battery is inefficient. I just ran out to grab coffee (coffee maker broke and that’s a tragedy around here) and my trip was 3.4 miles, 25 minutes, 1.6 miles electric, 15.2 MPG. Have you had the truck during the summer? Should go up then with the engine not having to run to heat the cab.
The trip I took last night.
49Degrees F
City driving
Very conservative driving w/ brake coach
Auto climate @ 72*
This seems to be the usual, under 20MPG every trip regardless of driving habits, speed or temperature. 37.5% electric and still under 20MPG on the trip. I don't know what to do.
For me personally it's just about the same mileage for my Powerboost with a 30 gallon tank as my previous Ecoboost was with a 36 gallon tank. Pretty much a wash. I'm not disappointed at all.
Since winter - about 600 miles, I live in city/suburbia. Some 650-700 tanks in warmer weather
I would never recommend someone do this…but one could allude to the fact that the truck is running bad or having issues to have the dealer go through it. Something is definitely wrong unless you’re not telling us something like you carry a 1500 pound lead plate in your bed at all times.
That's funny because I used to watch the prediction after each fill up like a contest. My record on my '17 EB (36 gal) was a prediction of 760 miles. But I was consistently around 700 or more predicted, unless I had recently done some towing.
I did that trip too many times in my 2018 2.7EB, I would regularly see fuel economy slightly lower but better than the PowerBoost. I live in a different area now and DON'T drive much, so I have different things to compare.That's funny because I used to watch the prediction after each fill up like a contest. My record on my '17 EB (36 gal) was a prediction of 760 miles. But I was consistently around 700 or more predicted, unless I had recently done some towing.
With my powerboost, I feel like it is a small victory to get a prediction of 600 because most of the time it is below that.
Still have the pic of my final commute from the bay area to sacramento on my phone. I cannot come close to this in my powerboost.
If by lead you mean two 40 lb bikes and a Burley Bee underneath a soft roll tonno cover. There is a misfire at idle, however the engine doesn't throw a code, you can hear it in the exhaust. This current tank is running around 19.3 MPG where that last tank was 18.8 MPG (and the last tank was mostly county highway). I have corrected the AFE and checked after four tanks to be accurate; so what the dash says is what I also hand calculate. Which I had to drop the AFE value from 1000--> 906! the AFE was so far off from the factory.
I find weather is a huge factor. Here in Canada, in -20 weather it doesn't run near as often or as far in battery mode, but as soon as its around 10 celsius (50f) it seems to make a huge difference. Obviously heater settings play a big role as do battery temps before it's warmed up.
