All of you veteran Prius drivers out there: I have had my '05 Prius for six weeks now and love it - but I have some questions about how my hybrid system acts and want to know if this is what is "normal":
1) After start-up, the car will not allow me to do any stealth driving until it is warm-up sufficiently now matter what the SOC is.
2) Driving down the highway at 55mph what I typically see is pink arrows from the ICE to the wheels and MG2 and green arrows from MG2 to the battery. This seems like a lot of energy from the ICE going to the battery when all I have on is the radio and the fan (and all the other electronics such as the MFD and the dash panel). Sometimes I can drive like this for more than 20 minutes and not even get any little regen leaves on the consumption screen. This is pretty much constant except for some pulses of yellow arrows from the battery to MG2 and from MG2 to the wheels. This will only occur when the SOC is 6 blue bars.
3) Sometimes even after the complete warm-up and SOC of 6 blue bars I find that I can not go into stealth mode (and I'm not going over 40 mph). For example, today I glided for about 1/2 mile into a small town and came to a stop sign. I turned left and accelerated to 25 mph and still had a SOC of 6 blue bars but I could not get into stealth mode - it was either green regen arrows or the ICE. Sometimes this happens, sometimes it does not. Any input on that???
Thanx
1) After start-up, the car will not allow me to do any stealth driving until it is warm-up sufficiently now matter what the SOC is.
2) Driving down the highway at 55mph what I typically see is pink arrows from the ICE to the wheels and MG2 and green arrows from MG2 to the battery. This seems like a lot of energy from the ICE going to the battery when all I have on is the radio and the fan (and all the other electronics such as the MFD and the dash panel). Sometimes I can drive like this for more than 20 minutes and not even get any little regen leaves on the consumption screen. This is pretty much constant except for some pulses of yellow arrows from the battery to MG2 and from MG2 to the wheels. This will only occur when the SOC is 6 blue bars.
3) Sometimes even after the complete warm-up and SOC of 6 blue bars I find that I can not go into stealth mode (and I'm not going over 40 mph). For example, today I glided for about 1/2 mile into a small town and came to a stop sign. I turned left and accelerated to 25 mph and still had a SOC of 6 blue bars but I could not get into stealth mode - it was either green regen arrows or the ICE. Sometimes this happens, sometimes it does not. Any input on that???
Thanx