I had an odd experience a few days ago. I was stopped at a red light, and the ICE came on for no apparent reason. I had just gone down a long hill, so I knew the battery shouldn't be low. It was about 70 F outside, so both heat and A/C were off (I had it on fan only, lowest setting, low enough temp that the heat shouldn't have been on,) as were all other electric accessories. I switched to the 'energy' screen to confirm, and it showed a full 8 bars on the battery, and showed battery and ICE power going to the wheels, even though I was at a complete stop. I shifted to Neutral, and the ICE immediately shut off. The traffic signal changed just then, so I wasn't able to experiment further.
Any ideas?
Oddly, this happened at the end of the highest-mileage reasonably long drive I've had so far (26 miles of flat driving at 60-70 mpg on a 40-50 mph country road, maybe 1/3 with the windows down.) It was 13 miles one way that started with a large up hill to reach the flat road, stopped for about 10 minutes, then the 13 miles flat back to go down the large hill again.
Any ideas?
Oddly, this happened at the end of the highest-mileage reasonably long drive I've had so far (26 miles of flat driving at 60-70 mpg on a 40-50 mph country road, maybe 1/3 with the windows down.) It was 13 miles one way that started with a large up hill to reach the flat road, stopped for about 10 minutes, then the 13 miles flat back to go down the large hill again.