Hi everyone.
I have had my 2021 - Max limited 3.5L EcoBoost for about a month and a half now, did a bit more than 600 miles on it, and did about 3 full tank refills. I'm lucky if I do 12mpg! Doesn't matter how "gently" I drive - the best I saw it do is less than 15mpg. If I drove it any slower where it counts most - from a full stop - I would be arrested for holding back traffic accelerating like a kick scooter...
What's up with that?
I'm talking combined driving here - about 50/50 city and highway, and on the highway - I'm getting the 15-16mpg at the most looking at the "real time" average fuel consumption display, driving at about 65-70mph, on around the 1,500rpm level - the average trip mileage gauge shows about 12mpg throughout a full tank. Forgot to mention I'm not towing anything, relatively flat road on average, and with just me in the vehicle...
What's up with that?
Thank you for everyone's helpful responses. I bought the vehicle used with about 36,000 miles on it about a month and a half ago.
It rides on the stock 22" all terrain tires, and I either drive it in normal or eco mode. I make an effort to accelerate rather slowly - as I wrote - to a point where I've already had drivers behind me honking sometimes, so I try not to be doing it like a fully loaded 18 wheeler, but it's far from "flooring it" or even somewhat "flooring it"...
It's a Max, and has the towing hitch (albeit still covered by the plastic tender cover that goes over it, as I don't really need to tow anything at this stage), and it's only me in it - not loaded with people or cargo.
I live in a suburb outside Toronto, work from home, so other than three trips a week going between very little traffic city driving to get out of my suburb (which is very close to the highway) and then again when I get into Toronto itself - the rest of my drives so far were in very light traffic city driving in my suburb for groceries and such - to doing about 200 miles roundtrip on a proper highway toll road (highway 407 ETR) to the dealership a few times for some repairs.
I have had my 2021 - Max limited 3.5L EcoBoost for about a month and a half now, did a bit more than 600 miles on it, and did about 3 full tank refills. I'm lucky if I do 12mpg! Doesn't matter how "gently" I drive - the best I saw it do is less than 15mpg. If I drove it any slower where it counts most - from a full stop - I would be arrested for holding back traffic accelerating like a kick scooter...
What's up with that?
I'm talking combined driving here - about 50/50 city and highway, and on the highway - I'm getting the 15-16mpg at the most looking at the "real time" average fuel consumption display, driving at about 65-70mph, on around the 1,500rpm level - the average trip mileage gauge shows about 12mpg throughout a full tank. Forgot to mention I'm not towing anything, relatively flat road on average, and with just me in the vehicle...
What's up with that?
Thank you for everyone's helpful responses. I bought the vehicle used with about 36,000 miles on it about a month and a half ago.
It rides on the stock 22" all terrain tires, and I either drive it in normal or eco mode. I make an effort to accelerate rather slowly - as I wrote - to a point where I've already had drivers behind me honking sometimes, so I try not to be doing it like a fully loaded 18 wheeler, but it's far from "flooring it" or even somewhat "flooring it"...
It's a Max, and has the towing hitch (albeit still covered by the plastic tender cover that goes over it, as I don't really need to tow anything at this stage), and it's only me in it - not loaded with people or cargo.
I live in a suburb outside Toronto, work from home, so other than three trips a week going between very little traffic city driving to get out of my suburb (which is very close to the highway) and then again when I get into Toronto itself - the rest of my drives so far were in very light traffic city driving in my suburb for groceries and such - to doing about 200 miles roundtrip on a proper highway toll road (highway 407 ETR) to the dealership a few times for some repairs.
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