teoulmoon said:
When I drive downhill, not a short hill but a hill about 1-2 miles long, the engine revs when i get to the stop light. It is very strange because when I stop at the bottom of the hill the engine will rev for quite a while. I try to shut off the engine by pressing the brake in farther but it doesn't work. Do any of you have this experience?
Is your battery displaying a full charge on the MFD? On a daily basis, I decend a hill with a +600 vertical foot decline and often times, my battery will be fully charged long before I reach the bottom. It appears that the ICE will start in these cases to (believe it or not) reduce the SOC (state of charge) on the battery to protect it from overcharging.
Since I take the same route daily, I have been able to eliminate situation this by dropping into neutral (don't worry, I keep my hand on the shifter just in case) as the battery reaches the maximum charge that the computers will allow.