Lunging at a dead stop

When you press the brake pedal to the floor, you activate the Hill Start Assist. The car beeps once and the slip indicator starts flashing. When you let go of the brake pedal, the brakes will remain active for about 1 second, waiting for you to press the accelerator pedal. If you don't, the brakes relase. If you are on level ground, the car will start creeping forward when you release the brake, regardless of whether or not the ICE is running. This is perfectly normal. If you want to keep the car from moving, hold the brake pedal down until you are ready to start moving forward.

 

This is not good advice. As the above poster said, pressing the brake pedal activates the hill stop feature. So to get the ICE to stop, you just need to come to a complete stop with the brake depressed enough to stop the vehicle and then the ICE will go out when all the parameters are met. Now it is winter, so if you have the heat or defrost on, the ICE may not go out as it needs extra heat to warm the interior of the car. There are several factors to look to to get the ICE to go out at a stop, not just haveing the brake pedal depressed.

 

I am unaware how holding the Brake extra hard will cause the engine to shut down at a stop, however, now that it's cold, if you want the engine to stop whenever it's at rest, (if the car's reached its warm-up temperature) turning OFF the HV/AC will cause the engine to shut down, but you will not have heat until you turn it back ON.

Also, if the car has reached its operating temperature, and its SOC is sufficient, it will shut down Automatically whenever you come to a stop.

As IraS said, all pressing down hard on the Brake will do is activate the "Hill Start Assist", which has NOTHING to do with the ICE shutting down.

David (aka Blind Guy)