Red triangle and other red warning image?

If you have AAA Premier, you can have it towed all the way to home. (200 miles towing) With AAA Plus, you need to drive 30 miles. (100 miles towing) Regular AAA membership is only for 5 miles. Good luck.

 

I would reset the codes and drive it home. Stop and go traffic is harder on the hv battery, freeway will be fine.

 

The battery will stay charged better at highway speeds but will often discharge quickly in stop and go, sometimes even at long lights. But if you clear the codes and take it for a short five mile test, and nothing serious pops up, I would drive it home. I have seen these things run for months after the first battery code, so a three hour drive would be the way I would go, certainly on the freeway over side roads. I would want the codes cleared so you could more easily see anything new especially on the gas engine.

 

Is this saying the ECU is/could be bad?

No. Fix block 10 and your P0A80 and 3000 will go away.

I guess it's not really 100% no. There could be some miniscule chance a block 10 module failed and the ecu has an internal failure at the same exact time. Anything is possible I suppose, but likely? No.

 

So did you get the car home?

 

The ECUs talk to each other. The P3000 is a code from the HV ECU, and it just means "hey, the battery ECU sent me a heads-up about some problem back there." (That's what comes out in English as "abnormal signal" from the battery ECU, after some long journey from the Japanese. It doesn't mean "some signal from the ECU is abnormal", like the ECU is broken and making weird voltages, as much as "the battery ECU signaled me about something being abnormal".)

 

Considering that you have two Priuses it would be worth buying the Prolong equipment from Hybrid Automotive.

The same discharger box covers 2004-2015 Prius, as well as 2012-2017 Prius V (ie you have one of each of those cars, so the same discharger can be used on both).

For a charger, get the Camry one - it will work on all Priuses, but Camry Hybrids also. Sort of future proofing, in case you get a Camry Hybrid some day in the future.

Of course, you are most welcome to get a Prius charger. I have both Camry Hybrid and Prius, so I bought a Camry charger, a Prius discharger and a Camry discharger (ie the discharger boxes are different).

Get a wiring harness for each Prius.

Charge/discharge cycle each hybrid battery twice each year.

It might be that your daughter uses the charger to top up the hybrid battery once a month if the battery has a problem module. It might be a matter of getting the car to last until the next semester break, when more time can be spent rebuilding the hybrid battery.

 

Since one of your Prii is a Prime and used Li battery technology, the Prolong equipment is only good for your daughters Prius that is NiMH technology .

But it is battery maintenance equipment as well as useful for rebuilding batteries .

Given this situation, you’ll want the Toaster kit or a new battery from Toyota .

 

Sounds like a good plan.

Now for battery assembly fun.

Don’t forget to update us periodically with data and performance .

 

He's got a Prius V as well. Then gen 2, gen 3 and V all use the same charger and discharger boxes.

 

Why should it be better to place the temp sensor on the upper side?

From my point of view that makes no sense. In the Gen 2 the cooling air is blown in from the top of the pack and the heated air leaves from the bottom. So the sensors are placed correctly where the actual battery temp can be measured best.