2010 prius won't start after running out of gas

The problem code P0A0D for blocking has subcodes.
The high-voltage system includes a high-voltage battery, high-voltage wiring, inverter, compressor for the air conditioner. Therefore, the subcode for the error will tell you the location of the problem more accurately.

What high voltage skills do you have? Auto electrician skills?
A lot depends on this.

Until you find the location and point where the lock is broken, even with a charged battery, the hybrid system will not turn on. The Prius is designed to prevent accidental high voltage shock.

 

The fastest way is with the Prolong device or its homemade analogue.
A high constant voltage of 240 volts and higher is supplied to the high-voltage battery.
The charging current is 0.2-0.3 A. All modules are charged at once.

 

Are you going to check the fuel pump????
Running out of fuel for any electric fuel pump is bad because the fuel
cols the pump, no fuel, no cooling, pump can burn up quickly.
Since enough fuel was not installed, and you kept trying to start the car, it's likely
the fuel pump is burned out.

Manual applying voltage to the pump could tell you if the pump is at least running.

You can "rig" different chargers to the hybrid batter to charge it, but it is highly risky.
It's a DV battery, so if you have any experience with electricily, it's the same.
You could do a search in your area for a hybrid shop that could possibly charge it
for you, and test the fuel pump.

Plus, with the Prolong charging/discharching system, you can run through the charge/discharge
cycles and possibly bring new life to the hybrid battery which can help it last longer.

 

Don't the dealerships have a special charger to charge a depleted HV battery? Why not bring the car to your dealership?

 

Moving a car that won't start requires at least one horsepower))

 

Or a tow.

 

I'm not sure every dealership has one. Maybe by now they do. At one point, it was definitely equipment provided by Toyota per sales region, and if your dealership needed it, they'd go on the list for one from regional to be brought to them, along with the specially-trained technician to run it.

 

Hmm, if they sell it, they should have the means to service it.

 

They do. They just keep some of those means at the region HQ.

 

Just noticed this post. The P0A0D code pertains to the safety interlock circuit that makes sure you have the right connections made and covers in place at the inverter and the battery service plug fully installed. It does have a couple of subcodes, but those only tell you when the condition was detected. Subcode 350 means it was detected while the car wasn't being driven, and locks out the hybrid system. Subcode 351 means it was detected while the car was being driven, and displays the warning without immediately shutting the car down, so you can get to a safe place.

Because all the safety interlocks are on a simple series circuit, there isn't any way the code could pin down the location for you; if any one of the interlocks isn't made, all the ECU can see is that the circuit is open, not where the open happens to be. Helpfully, there are only a few places to look.

The different code P0AA6 (the one about high-voltage isolation being compromised) does have subcodes that narrow down which portion of the high-voltage system is suspect.

 

There aren't any self-opening interlocks. Around here, nearly every P0A0D turns out to be from somebody messing with the orange service plug, and the remaining nearly none of them turn out to be something else. There could always be a truly weird case like an escaped hamster chewing the interlock wire somewhere.

There are some threads around here like "build a grid charger for $100" or something that could give you ideas for getting some charge into the battery if that's really something you want to dabble in. Depends what experience you have working safely with such voltages. Hold-my-beer lethal possibilities exist.

 

The Prolong "Charger" alone is about half that price, with the harness.

 

Do you NOT have the covers in place? It's blocked off with a cover, HOW could something
slide around and loosen it? I doubt that is what happened.....
Perhapes the aaa guy pulled everything out getting to the 12v batter and removed it to check it
and didn't connect it properly?

Running out of fuel was not good. Not putting enough fuel in wasn't good either. By the time you
did put enough in, you had drained the 12v battery and hybrid you needed a jump. Since you have to
remove EVERYTHING in the trunk to get to the 12v battery(idiot design), that's why the service plug
was tampered with....

I'm glad you got it going and the hybrid battery had enough juice to crank the engine over and it started.

You should check all the hoses and fitting for the coolant system. If you do not find any leaks, it's likely
time to replace the head gasket...

 

The best thing about the P0A0D code is it just tells you stuff. It doesn't have an opinion on how any interlock got opened, it doesn't scold you about it, it just says "hey, look at these interlocks" and you do that and you find the problem and it's good.