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Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Main Forum' started by kayemarschke2, Jun 5, 2007.

  1. kayemarschke2

    kayemarschke2 New Member

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    Well I got a scare the other day. Normally the battery stripes are blue.....right? Well mine got down to one line and was purple. Has anyone else had this problem.Freaked me out!!
     
    #1 kayemarschke2, Jun 5, 2007
  2. efusco

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    It's not a "Problem", it's a feature. You were probably in slow moving traffic and your car continued to run without unnecessarily using the ICE. The ICE will come on to charge the battery when necessary.
     
    #2 efusco, Jun 5, 2007
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(kayemarschke2 @ Jun 5 2007, 07:27 PM) [snapback]456121[/snapback]</div>
    You wouldn't believe how many hundreds of other posts we've seen over the years that were identical to yours.

    It's a new owner ritual... which seems to have an "enlightenment" effect on many. Awareness of the system is heightened afterward. So there's a worthwhile benefit of just allowing the "freak out" to happen.

    Though, I have requested suggestions about how to emphasize that information. It's clearly illustrated in both the USER-GUIDE and INFO-SHEET. But my guess is that people just don't understand the importance of what they are being shown until afterward. 1 bar is not empty. 8 bars is not full.

    How can we better point out that it is just a relative measure, showing only the normal operating range rather than the entire capacity of the battery-pack?
     
    #3 john1701a, Jun 5, 2007
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    The bar graph for the battery was only blue until I had some work done on it by the dealer. Now I'm getting blue, green and pink colors on the bar graph. Any idea what the colors mean?
     
    #4 marshallc, Jul 22, 2008
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    The colors are eye candy redundant with the number of bars. There are options for the display color scheme. I haven't played with it, but perhaps one of those options keeps all bars the same color regardless of their number, and the recent service changed the option.
     
    #5 richard schumacher, Jul 22, 2008
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    Even at purple, the battery still has 40% of charge, and that's as low as it will go.
     
    #6 lenjack, Jul 23, 2008
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