While it's happily charging, questions

You're out of luck on that one. Toyota did this also with the 2012-2015 PIP. I guess Toyota thinks running accessories is wasteful use of energy

 

But the preconditioning is not a waste?
When running accessories there is usually somebody inside the vehicle, unlike preconditioning.

 

It doesn't, unless the EVSE tells it to. I've seen it at 15.4A.

 

Well IDK maybe Toyota thinks nobody's going to sit in the car for 2 hours. I'm just shooting in the dark here. I really don't understand Toyota's logic here.

 

This is a software bug. It's supposed to last 20 minutes. I've reported it.

 

Geez, you'd think Toyota would allow the 12 volt battery to be trickle charged by the charging system powered by the EVSE.

 

It does the opposite.

 

let's face it, toyota has thought of everything. no improvements possible.

 

But not running in Accessories mode while sitting in your car while charging

 

i bet tesla doesn't have this hurdle to overcome.

 

Neither does a Corolla.

 

i wonder what all this 'checking/operating' stuff is all about? must use a lot of power.

 

Early Tesla's at least were famous for MASSIVE vampire loads killing both the 12V battery and the traction battery while the car sat unused. And the 12V battery is very hard to access making jumping really hard if that one died.

 

yeah, a real piece of carp. i wouldn't touch one with a ten foot pole.

 

I'm not making this up.

 

I submitted it to Toyota and I have no idea if or when they will fix it.

 

My Prime loses several percent of EV power every day just sitting. Phantom power loss just like the Tesla.

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