Thank you. My husband is considering the Eco boost like yours or the 250 diesel. Our concern was how much the gas mileage would drop with our truck camper. I agree thats certainly not what they advertise, we get 11 with our 2004 Chevy 2500HD with the camper now. Thank you again, Christine

 

OK, I know this is an older post...

Actually, the shorter gearing helps keep the engine in its optimum torque curve. Transmission will have to downshift less, and there is less chance of lugging the engine.

As to my mileage, on my 1500 mile truck (see sig for specs), I've been able to eek out 20 mpg in mixed driving. Key is to drive smoothly. Avoid heavy braking and throttle applications unless you really need to. This engine has enough torque down low that you don't need to be making the transmission downshift all the time to accelerate back up to speed.

 

This past labor day towed an 18ft car-hauler trailer (metal bed) with three full dressed Harley's and a Chopper with 2011 f150 Supercrew 4x4, 3.73 rear, Ecoboost from Texas to NC/TN line. Had four guys and all food and gear for four days in the bed. Averaged 11.8 to 13mpg at 65 mpg all the way and back...

 

That is not bad at all! Thought my 11' Explorer limited with AWD and tow pack was doing bad at 14mpg to 15 mpgs with max Payload and almost max towing rating of 5,000 pounds pulling my 11' Sea Doo 210 Wake loaded and wet. This was from Miami, FL to Killeen, TX...I gotta say they sure are making them that much better when it comes to fuel efficiency.

Now if my XL F-150 EB/163" s/cab 4X4 with Heady Duty Payload pack and Max tow would come in now. I'd love to see how I do with the Boat while I take it to get it serviced about 70 miles away.

 

Thats not bad!

I shopped long and hard for a replacement for our 2008 Toyota Tundra double cab (6 passenger) to pull our 30 ft 8K lb travel trailer. I averaged 7.5-8.5 mpg with the Tundra.

After test driving the 2011 Ecoboost F150, 2012 F250 diesel (both in 6 passenger configurations), I ended up buying a 2005 Excursion diesel to fit my family of 6 better and pull the TT wherever we needed.

Now if Ford would just sell a max tow package Expedition ecoboost, I would buy that to replace the wifes Minivan and have her a better daily driver and a great backup tow vehicle.

 

With my 26' enclosed trailer behind a Max Tow 3.73 Eco the mileage dropped down to 7.9 mpg @ 60mph. Kind of windy that day but the truck was all over the road with that amount of weight and the trailer was EMPTY. It was bad enough that the trailer sway control was going on (it straightened things out in very short order then the light came on telling me what had just happened)

Plenty of power to tow the 5000lb trailer but very unstable even at that weight and trailer size.

There is absolutely no way I would tow 11,300lbs on a daily basis with a 150 Eco.

1/2 that weight maybe . . .

 

Standard hitch or weight distributing hitch?

 

Weight distributing hitch tried at multiple settings.

 

Weird that it was all over the road like that. My buddy has a max tow F150 and he pulls his enclosed snowmobile trailer with it (7,000lbs) without any issue. I've driven it a couple times and didn't find it to be squirrely at all.

 

I haven't had mine long, 3.73 max tow, about 500 miles on it. I am watching the mileage and so far, so good. About 18 average empty and in the 14s on one trip with a light trailer-about 2000 pounds.

 

I haven't towed as I'm only at 129 miles on the odo...I averaged 20.5 on a 70 mile trip without payload or trailer..I'll follow up once I pull the boat to the dealer later next week. Hopefully I just get the mileage up by then.

 

Something is not right? I was towing a 21' camper(5600lbs) and averaged 12.6mpg with absolutely no problems towing and now i tow a 32' camper(7500lbs) with a Equal-i-zer hitch and have no problems with sway and still average 10.4 mpg..Something is not right with your setup?? And your mpg i cant understand at all??

 

Hi all, new here.

I'm enjoying my '11 F150 EB Ext cab FX4 with Max Tow for 4100 miles now. It's a daily driver for my wife and I use it to tow my Mustang to the track. On a recent 500 mi trip (no trailer) I coaxed an average mileage of 22.4. Here are my observations related to mileage with this truck.

1) leadfoots beware! Those twin turbos demand a lot of fuel when they are boosting. I found that care-free highway driving was netting me in the 18mpg range, but I could get significantly better with good energy management.

2) we are driving the aerodynamic equivalent of a billboard down the road. Speeds above 65 and even light headwinds will drive highway mileage to the 17 range.

3) EB fuel economy compared to large displacement gas engines is favorable only when light (not towing). Towing heavy loads (7000+ range) is going to mean sub 10mpg. I just rode with a friend towing a 9000lb car hauler with an 04 F350 dualie V10 and he was getting 7mpg.

Bottom line is that since the EB is capable of such impressive power numbers, it's also capable of sucking a lot of gas when you call on that power. However, when we demand less power we're not wasting gas turning a massive drivetrain needed to deliver the same peak power normally aspirated