I left my lights on overnight. And the car started anyway!

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  1. priusenvious1

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    Wow, that was a relief! How does that work? How come it didn't drain the battery??
     
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    Don't they turn off automatically for you?
     
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    I had the setting on manual lights so they were on all night!
     
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    Which lights?
     
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    The car was probably in its "ready" state and could recharge the 12 Volt battery from the HV battery.
     
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    I forget. Might've been the foglights?
     
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    if the car was plugged in overnight, the charging process does recharge the 12 V battery as well
    also, you have Advanced, so LED lights, so they don't draw that much. I went skiing once and left just my parking lights on all day and the car still started without a hitch.
     
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