Trying Not to Lust After the Prime

Go go go!

I bet you’ll be very pleased with it.

 

Yeehah! Congrats!

I don’t follow the situation you’re describing there. Can you expound upon it, or just rephrase it?

 

Are you sure it was "ON" and not in accessory mode? It will turn off from accessory mode to save battery life.

 

I’m not immediately sure whether this matters, but was it still plugged in at the time?

 

I’d expect that, if you charge it up, drive it, charge it up again, drive it, etc., it will behave pretty intuitively for the most part. There might be some less-intuitive behavior when you’re in the car as it’s charging.

 

The AC compressor only runs in READY mode (the mode where if you press the accelerator pedal you will go somewhere). In ON mode only the fan will run, not the compressor. In ACC mode you pretty much have only radio and 12V outlet.

Based on your description you were probably in ON mode and just the fan was running. Per the manual the car should stay in ON mode for one hour before shutting off (20 minutes in ACC mode). Although I seem to remember some people reporting early on that the Prime shut off much earlier than the designated time. But I don't think it was 2-3 minutes. Maybe after turning it on you opened and closed the driver door for some reason? I think that might cause it to shut off within a few minutes if you do that and don't start the car.

Then again, in your understandable excitement of showing off your new car, unless you had a dash cam pointed at you there is no telling what you did

The first part for sure, it won't go into READY mode if the charge cable is connected, even if you aren't currently charging. And if it you connect the charge cable while in READY mode it will shut off the hybrid system.

As for ON mode turning off after a few minutes instead of an hour when you are charging, that's possible although I didn't see anything about that in the manual. But not everything gets documented.