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| Written by Kacey Green | |||
| Saturday, 08 September 2007 | |||
 On Wednesday, I
stopped for fuel and the Prius reported something odd, it showed 25 watt-hours regenerated
during the fill-up. If I am 100 percent
sure the engine will not be starting during the refueling process, I don't shut
the car down. However, there were only energy
expenditures during this block of time you can see it at 25 minutes ago on this
screenshot of the consumption graph. I'd
call several gallons of gasoline more than 50WH :). I'm not sure what happened there but I've
seen it before and it is unrelated to the fuel stop. When I refuel it usually shows an empty five
or ten minute graph (depending on how long I take with paperwork after the fill
and how slow the pump is).
A month before I traded my Civic, it shut down all power while going down a large hill, but by about 100 feet from the bottom of the hill (where I then needed to go up another hill) everything powered back up, all with no intervention on my part. This was weird I had power steering, zero RPMs and no electricity. I usually build up speed on a down slope so I had enough momentum built-up to continue without incident. It never did it again and I saw it in town several times after the trade, still looking good and clean (but with dirty tires). What weird things have your vehicles done?
Kacey
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You caught me in my feed reader! I don't know if mine does this, but one of my friend's has done this a few times. Kinda like it lost track of how much power is in the batteries, then it got a new reading 25wh higher than before, and it did it while you weren’t moving. |
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