My battery died..

You could drive it somewhere for an hour or more once in a while to get the battery to cycle through several times.
Or get the battery charger for the hybrid battery and charge it once a month or so....

 

it is unusual, but that's why there is a warranty, it happens. it's not your driving, just defective.

do you get the balance of the warranty, or is it 3/36 now?

 

I doubt that would have killed it. These cars are designed to make the best of that kind of situation, but there must be a reason your HV battery died an early death. Do you ever travel with pets in the car? Has the battery fan ever been cleaned?

 

Absolutely, positively not necessary........unless maybe it will sit for a year without being used.

 

Seeing how the car is not drive much it doesn't give the engine enough time to charge the battery
to full(80%?) charge. Even though they are not supposed to have a memory effect, they do.
Possibly why they battery failed.
Even the prolog page says it's good to use there battery charger to fully charge, and balance the battery.
Which supposedly makes the battery last longer.
But it's a mute point since Toyota warrantied the battery and replaced it for them.

 

Documentation please.
I don't think you can find any reliable, non-biased source that will back that up.

Self appointed Internet experts and businesses with something to gain by twisting the facts slightly do NOT qualify as reliable sources.

 

First, I have NOTHING to gain or lose!
I have NEVER, nor will I EVER claim to be a "Self appointed Internet experts and businesses with something to gain by twisting the facts slightly do NOT qualify as reliable sources", like yourself.
There are some people who just want to argue. It won't matter what anyone else says, does, or prove, they will state the opposite,
right or wrong, just to try to start an argument.

If YOU wish to search Prius chat, you possibly could find where someone had some documentation stating that the Prius
battery doesn't suffer from the memory problem.
NiMH batteries are not supposed to have a memory problem, Every battery manufacturer states that, but they will.
I noticed this with 100 plus ones I've used.
And good luck finding any "non-biased source" about anything.
Like the 12volt battery. I've read on Prius Chat that you SHOULD/NEED to replace the 12 volt battery after 4,5,6,7.... years because it's bad. I've yet to see ANY real documents to say which is correct. So which is it? Each posts their own documents proving each year.
My PERSONAL "OPINION" is that they are all correct. Because part of it depends on how well
each battery is made, quality, heat, cold, how much demand/stress is put on the battery.
About 60 years ago I learned to listen to ALL opinions and then base my decision on what to do on that.

 

Actually it very well may have been a contributing factor. That's almost "taxi-like" in that there is lots of battery use which is not what the Prius is meant to do, but it can do. One reason why fleet vehicles are exempted from the warranty. It is harsher than "normal" driving. 76k miles of taxi driving in LA heat... Unusually low still, but not ridiculously crazy. Glad you got the Toyota warranty replacement though!

 

The oil consumption is probably unrelated, I would continue to monitor closely.

 

So is it your opinion that the battery is stressed more by continually being at a relatively low (40 to 50%) SOC? That would be the only difference I could see between this type of driving and normal. I've spent some time in heavy traffic and noted that the ICE will start when the MFD shows 2 bars and will turn off again when it reaches 3 or 4. If it were able to fully recharge, say 6 bars, would that promote longer life? Would that be due to a type of "memory effect" or will the battery become more overheated under those conditions? I think it is fair to assume the cabin temperature is maintained at a comfortable level, whether in heavy traffic or not.

 

Not a memory effect, and not stressed just staying low. But the times I've driven in SoCal the slow rush hour driving is a mixture of going really slowly with high AC to speeding up just to slam on the brakes every minute. So the battery does go way up and then way down.

 

Fake news. We want Alex Jones back!

 

So your argument would be that rush hour driving causes more cycling of the battery? It would be better to keep it at a fairly constant level of 5 or 6 bars throughout the entire length of the drive? Sounds reasonable.

 

See what I mean? There's ALWAYS one.....

 

And you don't understand that qualifies you as a "self appointed expert" ??

When you disagree with ALL of the recognized experts in the field, the odds are huge that you are wrong.

Supply some proof or admit that it is just your opinion.

 

See what I mean? There's ALWAYS two.....

 

Spouted by a self-appointed internet expert that has been PROVEN to know very little about how hybrid systems or internal combustion engines work in real life.

 

Really ? Dredge up some proof or step away from the microphone.

And that is not a claim that I have never made a mistake and said something wrong on here because I likely have.

 

Stop beating the poor dead horse!