Basic Charging question

My first suggestion is read the manual. There are a few ways to charge your Prime. Click the link to see them.
New Prime Owner w/ a few questions | Page 3 | PriusChat

 

Turn the car on and then off. There will be a prompt for charging. Select “charge now”.
There is also a button down low to the left near the gas cap release to bring up the
Charging options.

 

"It looks like the car still has not charged."
According to...what?

When the Prime is fully charged the green light at the connector is out. The green light on the charge cord control box is out. The 3 blue LEDs on the dash are out. The multifunction display shows 100% if you have the correct screen showing. If you pull the connector plug then put it back in, the green light under the connector will light for a very short time. I know, Toyota didn't make it immediately obvious.

After a drive I plug in the charge cord. The control box gets its green light and makes a clickclick-click sound. It's charging. Sometimes it takes a few seconds for the first blue LED to illuminate. The first blue LED flashes for a long time. The next step has the first staying on and the second flashing, but not as long. Then the two stay on and the third flashes for the shortest time. Then all 3 go out as well as the green light on the charge control box. The car is fully charged.

 

Also after you plug the car in, open the driver’s side door. If you leave the windows down you’ll get a warning that will cover up the Charge Now requestor. But if you sit down in the driver’s seat and close the door, the Charge Now requestor will pop back up. Use the right selector button on the steering to press the middle button with the period. Should start charging then.

Or you could try and plug the EVSE in, wait until all comms have stopped between the car and pull the EVSE out and then plug it back in. Sometimes that works and sometimes no.
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there is a battery icon on one of the screens that tells you how much charge it has. in miles or percentage.

 

I'd check your charge schedule set up. It might be its set to charge at a certain time schedule.

Sometimes mine goes into some charge schedule even though its set to charge now. 95% of the time it does that immediately charges but occasionally it won't immediately charge but if you go back 10 minutes later its gone into charge mode. Seems like a bug in the software

 

What made you think the car was not charged? The fact when you plugged in L2 EVSE into the PRIME and all three LED were lit and tuned off suggests that your PRIME was indeed fully charged. The easiest thing is to turn it on and see the battery SOC. If you have set it in % display, it should show "100%".

 

don't feel bad, many here (including me) have difficulty trying to understand toyotas redundant overload of useless information

 

Glad to hear your brand new PRIME is not a lemon after all. LOL Yeah, the display on PRIME does take some getting use to. It is not as simple as my old Gen3, to say the least. It displays far more information than regular hybrid cars and probably more than other BEVs and PHEV. That being said, it does provide very interesting data for inquisitive minds. Enjoy your new car.

 

I had a similar problem that sometimes when I am driving on pure EV and then plug in, then it will not charge. Some guys told me that this could be to avoid overheating of battery.

 

This is frequently caused by a scheduled charge event. You can always override to "charge now" through the dash display or the hard to find button on the lower left dash near the fuel door release.

 

There is only one battery (not counting the 12V accessory battery). That battery display showing two sections is purely an artifact of the software. When the state of charge of the battery gets too low, the car switches into hybrid (HV) mode and behaves like a regular Prius, using the gasoline engine to keep the charge level within a small range. The upper section of the battery display show how much charge is allocated for electric (EV) mode; the lower section of the battery display reflects charge allocated for operating in HV mode. But it is all just battery management policy for the (one) battery.