New Nightshade Trim and Yellow Colour for 2025.

Traditionally perhaps, but none of which you said now is in the maintenance manual, which was your previous claim.

 

I hope the Prius has these feature too. I will check on this. Thanks for pointing it out.

 

The 2025 Camry has these features and all trim levels are now hybrid.

 

They do, Exact same system.

 

I wonder if the people who complain about the electronic parking brake also complain about the electronic transmission parking pawl.

 

i did not really complain about the parking pawl until it left my Prius stuck blocking a traffic lane. The Hybrid system shut down due to a collision and the car could not be moved due to the parking pawl. A special procedure allowed us to put the car in Neutral to move it.

 

Yeah that's kind of ridiculous. Dreading the day our plugin minivan dies in the middle of traffic in the future & we can't put it in neutral to push. Better try to find if there's some secret decoder ring to make sure that doesn't happen. This is the kind of stuff why I miss a simple foot or pull lever to apply or unapply an emergency brake, never mind going downhill some time in the future with no emergency apply-able brake if I were to have a rock bust a hydraulic brake line.
EDIT
Found the secret decoder method. It requires a special tool

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You'd have to be unlucky enough to bust two brake lines.
Modern cars split the four brakes onto two separate hydraulic circuits.

 

Thanks.

I’ve tried searching the manual to understand procedures for getting the 2024 Prius into neutral when the battery is dead in order to tow. I searched towing, flatbed, etc. within the digital manual with no luck. It’s off topic but previous posts are referring to this topic. Needing to replace dead 12V before towing makes no sense to me. I’m asking because historically I’ve had tow trucks arrive with zero Prius experience.

 

ah, for the days when you put the car in neutral and pushed it to the side of the road.
tech is great, when it works

 

Wonder what the last year was - that had a good old-fashioned "shift to neutral" & manual emergency for brakiing ... our sprinter has both .... and our 2018 plug in can manually shift to neutral & won't auto park brake

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What would you do in your current car? You've got an electronic shifter in it, too.

 

From what I was reading here I was under the impression the Gen 5 was handled differently under these circumstances. If not, I’m all set.

 

The Toyota inventory is showing that the 2025 model year is arriving at the dealers in early February–early March.

@daisy555, are you still getting a 2024 or will you opt for a 2025?

Or wait for another year so that you can get the mid-cycle refresh in 2026 with lots and lots of enhancements.

 

The Prius did not require a decoder tool but I have not seen it documented anywhere.

Turn on (with foot on the brake) and hold down the brake & hold the shifter in N and it eventually shifts to Neutral.

 

Enhancements for Toyota US bottom line or for the driver?

 

This is where an El'Cheapo 12V 'Jumper Pack' would work.
But does the car require 12V power to stay in N?
You'd think if all that is wrong it a dead 12V battery, once the car is booted up the HV battery is now online and the DC-DC converter is supplying the 12V bus.

 

Good guess, but incorrect.
The 12V power stayed on, The Hybrid system was disabled & the parking pawl uses the high voltage, I assume.The 12Volt battery was fine up until it entered the junkyard.

 

I thought we were talking about a dead 12V battery.... Yes they can fail without warning....
And Lead is the most recycled material there is. It does not go to a junkyard. It gets recycled.

Not sure what you are trying to say,,,
But I know for sure: NO hybrid, PHEV or EV using 'High Voltage to operate the parking pawl'.
Do you see any big orange wires going to that little component on the transaxle?

 

i was referring to getting stuck in Park after a collision disabled the hybrid system. After the secret process, we could push the car out of the active traffic lane.

The car was otherwise stuck in Park and would not shift into Neutral.