02-16-2021, 02:47 PM
space-time wrote:
I jumped the car to get it started and let it run unattended for about eight hours (I left it parked in front of my house, but I have Zoom cams in front, so the likelihood of theft was low), and then turned it off.
I am curios, if you leave a Hybrid car running, does it actually run the gas engine or just idle on the lithium battery? I know my Volt would not run the gas engine, unless I opened the hood.
I wondered about that too. It runs the gas engine as needed to power the traction battery, and the 12V gets charged off that... but apparently that's Toyota's recommended method of charging up the 12V if it gets run down (see the post in the followup toward the end of the thread). Here's the link: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Automobile...lt_battery