Activate "Charge Now" outside the car?

This has happened to me before too. I suspect it’s because the battery is too hot and the management system simply won’t let it charge until it cools off.

 

If you plug in then unplug and plug in again it should start charging. Also, there are 2 places that you change the time in the car, not sure where but it's somewhere in the manual. Good luck.

 

Also if you are attempting to use overnight rates, you may be better setting an approximate departure time of something like 4AM rather than a start charging time. This will most likely sit within your lower rate time and will start the car charging to ensure it is fully charged by 4AM. It won't start charging until it needs to.

But as others have said, you can wait for it to start blinking, unplug quickly and plug back in. This will change it to charge now mode. I do this when I forget to change it to charge now in the car. I have departure times set for winter purposes but haven't bothered to turn them off.

 

I was born in Stillwater and grew up in OKC and a couple of years in Atoka. I knew there was something wrong when family reunions were the first week of August often in just fan cooled buildings.

Let me suggest using a timer rated at 15A for the L1 charger that came with the car. With our Prime, having a home L2 is nice but depending upon your usage profile, not necessary. I do have a JuiceBox 40 Pro but soon learned it made more sense where I prefer to shop. The shopping center gives me $0.25-0.35 electricity and they get my repeat business.

GOOD LUCK!
Bob Wilson

 

That's one way.

The other is to activate remote A/C. After it runs for 10 minutes, it will be left in "Charge Now".

Personally, I just open the door and hit the center button on the right side of the steering wheel.

Another way to go is to just set it to charge for departure at, say, 7am the next morning. Then it will start whenever it needs to to finish at that time.

 

This is outside of your question and you may know it already. As prius from dad said, there are two places you need to set time, without which your car may not start charging as you intended. The clock on the dash is listed at page 185 of the main manual. The system time is at page 67 (indicating where you can access it) of navigation manual.

Seting my departure time for weekdays and weekends works for me the best.

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It's been 102° - 103° (actual) here recently with the humidity to boot. You know it's bad when you have to drive to Dallas to cool off.

 

Once I turn the car off, I usually just hit the center button when it shows me the next charge schedule. That way I don't have to walk back around. Not really what you were asking for, but it's all I got.

 

I do the same thing. Just look for the "Charge Now" button on the large display that will show up for a few seconds right after you shut down the vehicle. If in doubt, turn your Prime back on then off and watch for the button to appear.

 

At least on my Advanced, when I shut off the car, the center display has a "Charge Now" button on the bottom. Press it and that's it.

 

Also, if there are no scheduled charging events, the car defaults to charge immediately upon plug in.

 

the "charge now" comes off as soon as you turn the car off, it's something you'll get used to to respond to once you have a charge schedule set and you are charging e.g. at work, I did at least . I used the unplug/pug a couple of times when I forgot to push the button ... the other thing to be aware of, the "charge now" might be preceded by the "can the TB cooler be used while charging", so you might have to respond twice after turning the car of.
It all sounds a little odd what we have to do, but I got used to it ...

 

There is also a charge button on the left side of the steering wheel below the HUD buttons (if you have that). It looks a bit like a clock. You can use this to activate the charging schedule screen and put it in charge now mode. Although again, just unplugging and plugging back in quickly is the quickest way to get it into Charge Now mode.