Hi, this might be a stupid question but it’s come to a point where it’s just unnecessary and it reached an extremely annoying point where I’ve been stuck in slow moving traffic where it constantly starts charging, using up more fuel than needed.

I drive a Yaris Y20 and I live somewhere that’s very uphill and close to a motorway.

The engine charging the hybrid battery is completely unnecessary since I’m mostly just using the engine break and then going up to a motorway.

Is there a way to either limit the engine charging to hybrid battery or to just turn off that specific function?

  • happyexit7@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    How old is the battery? Just because it says it’s almost full the software may see other things in the batteries performance that warrants the engine running. I would trust the car knows what it’s doing.

    • roflmytoeisonfire@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I got the car last year and at that point it was about 2-3 years old (was a lease before I bought it and had only been driven 3000 metric miles)

      But yeah as someone suggested I’ll try and get a diagnostic on the battery