PiP turned itself 'on' this morning... Shut off when I opened the door

Usual suspect is "butt-dailing" with the key fob.

 

Possible someone activated the remote climate control, which can only pre-cool, not pre-warm, but might have come on anyway, and does shut off after 10 minutes or when the door is opened.

 

Check your remote FOB. It has an A/C button. You probably pressed it accidentally.

 

agree. hopefully the new one will have it next year. toyota listens, and reads.

 

That has potential to be a major energy waster. It could draw as much as a full recharge.

Electric heater comes on virtually instantly. I wish Gen2 PiP to have rear electric seats also.

 

electric heater?

 

^^ "That has potential to be a major energy waster. It could draw as much as a full recharge.
Electric heater comes on virtually instantly."

>It's not a 'waste' if you enjoy sitting down in a nicely warmed up car.

>What is the cost of 'a full recharge' in a PiP? 10-15 cents? It's better than coming out to a car warming up in cloud of gas stink. Plus you can't warm it up that way in a garage.

>No current PHEV or BEV has 'instant Electric heat'. Even if you could get warm air blowing out the vents quickly, everything else in the cabin is frozen.

The ability to 'Precondition' the cabin of the car, hot or cold, is awesome, especially when you can do it from a phone app while in your office at work!!

 

oy, i agree with bill.

 

Oh yeah: where's the roof mounted slurpy holder then??

 

I meant not ideal. Gas engine produces waste heat. So you could cogenerate cabin while turning the wheel.

However, the waste heat generated at the power plant will not make it into car cabin. Electricity is meant to drive the wheels so heating using it as "waste".

 

agreed, but ideal is something people in ivory towers shoot for.

 

Was the car fully charged? If yes you could not have left it on.

 

or like some of the other plugins - by way of timers - built into the car as well as settable via your apps
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slurry? - that's less familiar to me then fly over

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you don't have slurpy's in cali?

 

Oops - sorry - yeah I definitely need another eye exam & thicker glasses


{EDIT}
Regarding the self starting car - just thought of one other thing, although its most likely the OP was correct about butt dialing. That said, the car we bought for our daughter would occasionally self start. Turns out there was stray RF being transmitted, & so that's another possibility - somebody else's garage door opener - somebody else's remote start, even amateur radio at high power operating on UHF can activate an auto start device receiver in the 400mhz range, as well as several other types of radio transmitters.
....... Ok , back to finding where I left my glasses.
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