Anybody having same problem? - unable to move or charge

my Gen4 was delivered to me in June 2016. Luckily, no such issue.
It seems to me there is a software or sensor problem.

 

my Gen4 was delivered to me in June 2016. Luckily, no such issue.
It seems to me there is a software or sensor problem.

 

welcome!

absent a long downhill, does it appear to operate normally?

 

Your Prius is known as a Gen 3 (I think) so it might help posting on that forum.

 

Re-read the first sentence. He is a messenger/speaks the queen's english.

 

Let's hope this is not a glitch (bug) in Gen 4. The system should stop charging the traction battery to avoid damaging overcharge, but then when the battery level drops below "full charge", the regen/charge should resume again. That's how it worked in our Gen 2 at least, the only one of our three Prius that ever experienced a full traction battery so far.

 

I had something similarly wonky happen right after I got my car. It would charge fully down the hill, drain, and then remain drained. It only happened twice and I haven't had it happen again since.

 

I've only twice had my battery fully charge (long downhill) - but never did it then fully discharge. Mine is a May 2016 build.

 

Mine is a 2016 with a Li-ion battery and is an april 27th build and no problems with mine. I do regularly fill up my battery when coming to a stop after a long highway steady drive but no hills here. It will certainly want to run the battery a little of the way down before firing up the engine but always restarts and recharges the battery without any issue.

 

I've glanced a number of times when the battery goes to almost full, stops charging and just runs on ICE only. This is at 55 mph. I've yet to encounter a hill long enough to fully charge the battery. Might give it a try tonight to see if I can replicate.

 

Unlike others here, my 2017 3 Touring with the Li-ion battery fills up to 8 bars regularly. I see it maybe once a day or so(I drive about 100 miles a day, no real big hills). It also goes to 1-2 bars just as often.

My 2015 in the exact same routes practically NEVER filled up to 8 bars, like maybe it happened 2-3 times total. My 2017 lithium ion fills to 8 bars probably 15 times a month

But it has never fully discharged immediately after. If my 2017 has 8 bars and I keep it in EV mode I probably have 4 minutes before it gets to 3 bars and starts to charge again.

I don't think anything is wrong with this car, I think that li-ion Prius just is more aggressive on the battery. I am getting 13mpg higher than I was on the 2015, and I went from the 15 to the 17" wheels.

 

I'm very happy with the lithium ion battery performance in my 2016. It seems more responsive, recharges quickly, and the car makes makes a cool electric whirring sound when accelerating in ev mode. Unlike my previous gen 3, which made an annoying scraping sound. No unusual battery charge levels to report. My 2010 did occasionally display puzzling battery charge levels. The car always auto corrected quickly. I thought it was the computer doing some sort of battery maintenance.

 

That electric whirring noise you hear is the VPNS noisemaker. They started adding them in 2012.

On my 2015 I unplugged it, I never was a fan of artificial car noises. On 2016+ if you unplug it you get an error on the dash, so I still have it plugged in.

 

It's too bad toyota has foiled our attempts at silencing the VPNS . I would have unpluggedcit by now. But that's not the electric whirrrng noise I'm referring to. When you're inside the car and accelerating in electric mode you can clearly hear the motor making a sound, a cool sound..

 

What I've noticed about the lithium ion battery is that once it gets to full, it stays that way. It's behavior is radically different from my 2nd gen. It won't switch between charging and discharging and helping the ICE to power the car along.