Agreed, except with the PB, you are also dragging around the high voltage battery and electric motor weight when the ecoboost is working extra hard and dumping fuel in the turbos. I don't have data, but my experience with two ecoboosts is that they got way better mileage with the same tow than my PB does. (7.5-8 vs 5 mpg)
I looked into the Nissan Leaf to get the battery specs per watt hour, looks like a 7.5kWh would be ~100lbs and 1.5 cubic feet.
I am not experiencing the same results.
And every pickup truck I have ever owned is used to haul around my toolbox in the bed. I'm guessing it weighs as much as that baby battery and the accompanying hardware unique to the Powerboost. I don't think a couple of hundred pounds of cargo is an appreciable hit on fuel efficiency in a truck. Certainly not enough to discount the AMAZING advantages that Ford leveraged with the Powerboost.
I plan on running my 30 ft Keystone passport while driving down the road form my 7.2 kw power on board. I haven’t decided if I will use the large 30 Amp 4 prong plug or just run a heavy duty 12 gauge 20 amp cord. I have to secure a cord under the camper and run it all the way to the back end. I’m not worried about the A/C in the camper to much. Mainly want the Refrigerator on Electric and inverter to keep the camper battery charged. I’ve run my Refrigerator on propane going down the road but really isn’t safe to do especially if pulling in a gas station. I’ve all ready used my truck to power my whole house for 12 hours in a wind induced power outage here in Northern Michigan. It worked great and the Engine only ran about an 1 1/2 - 2 hours max during the 12 hours. It Used no more than 2 gallons of gas and was nice and quiet. Provides very stable power. Did not see much of a surge when large items such as water pump and Furnace starting. Love this truck. Doesn’t do so good in cold weather and snow as far as running on Electric but should be better in spring and summer. Love this truck so far and have just over 4000 miles on it since October 7th, 2021. Don’t think I would want the full Electric Lightening version though where I live. Some of my power outages have lasted for 2-3 days in the past and don’t think the all electric truck can power my house that long.
I got my PB XLT Sport 4x4 in March of 21. It's my daily driver of about 55 miles round trip for work. I use all three trip computers to monitor my fuel consumption. "Current Trip" is a valuable too to see evidence of how temps, stop-go traffic, and elevation change can affect your MPG. Trip 1 is reset every fuel fill-up to monitor for anomalies. Trip 2 is reset every oil change for overall averaging. I've been doing this since my 2018 2.7 EB STX to monitor engine health and performance.
I wanted this so dang bad... 7.2kw inverter, 10 speed hybrid transmission, 4x4, baby powerstroke diesel motor. It's a shame Ford killed off the diesel for 2022, nobody was ordering it and it was only around to compete with Fiat's EcoDiesel in the Ram 1500 which seems to get a lot of love. I tried to order it (just the motor, they wouldn't pair it with the hybrid stuff) for my '21 but it showed "Late Availability" so I went with 3.5 EB. Would get PB if I had to do it over again and the only reason I stayed away was because it was a first generation product. Time proved me wrong on that choice.
