How Often are you doing a Prime Traction Battery 120v Recharge

It must be 16A because that's exactly what I get with my L2 EVSE cable. And my meter says it's pulling 16 amps. Or more like 15.98 or so. Very nice of them to do that.

 

It would be nicer if they told customers instead of trying to sell us another power supply! lol

 

I can bring my 2017 Prime to full charge in ten minutes. (Of course, that's after driving two miles to the supermarket and back.)

 

We need an "LOL!" button to go with the "Like" button.

 

IIRC, the motor won’t even start (ICE or electric) as long as the charger is plugged into the vehicle. Just the accessories come on and then shut off after a certain amount of time automatically. At least on my 2020.

I charge mine after everytime I drive it and get back home unless I only went like 5 or less miles. It’s become habit. The moment I get out of the car before I even walk inside I hook the charger up, it’s what it’s for after all.

Many of my trips for work related things are 40-80 miles away, so I take whatever electric miles I can get. In the summer I consistently get 33-35 miles on the dash read out on a full charge- even though I know some of you said that’s really just a “guess o-meter” and you are likely right. At 28k miles, I had the car at Toyota for routine service and they said the traction battery was at 91% life left - no idea if that’s good or bad.

See pic below - 34.3 miles from a charge - typical of spring and summer but I know it’s not necessarily accurate.

 

I plug in nightly. Have been doing this for the past two years. From April to October, my readout in the morning is between 32-37 miles. In the colder months, it's usually 28-31.

Also, does anyone know why, when driving downhill not long after starting the car (on a full charge) the gas engine kicks on? Seems to do that regardless of the weather conditions.

 

It's precisely because you have a full charge. You can only put 5 pounds of do-do in a five pound do-do bag. So, deceleration is done by engine braking rather than regeneration. The car refuses to put more juice in the battery because of the top end charge limit imposed by the engineers.

 

This is what I assumed. Thank you.