Prius is dead??

welcome!

could be a few things, inverter pump, hybrid battery, hard to know without the trouble codes.

how many miles on her?

 

When you said, "when pushing hte pedal it wouldn't go I got over the hill slowly". How did you accomplish getting over the hill if it didn't go? Was it going really slowly? How far did you drive to get it over the hill?

 

Hmm agree with bisco, on inverter pump and HV battery but if you can't get the codes, reset the 12v battery and if it starts and last more than two full steps about 10 sec each on the gas in Drive with the other foot on the brake, more than likely inverter pump unless you can hear the darn thing turning (window and hood open you should hear that noisy old pump) (don't drive it even though you could you'll fry your invertor!!!!!!!!) if it doesn't hv battery. 90 % of the time because the inverter over heating if you clear the code will let the car start and the inverter will take more than 20 sec to heat up, but an inbalanced HV battery will usually throw a code asap. even after reset if you try to force charge it with two or three pulses.
my $.02
terramir

 

357k hmmm have you had your hv battery rebuilt/replaced and when?

 

If your inverter pump shorted out, it would blow the AM2 fuse inside your engine compartment fuse box. Check that fuse and see if it's blown.

 

sometimes that pump just quits without a short BTW. happened to me. but 357k on original battery way to go, my battery quit around 160k-170k miles had to keep rebuilding ever since (now at a true 203-208k miles) and after rebuilding it twice I'm installing a charging port just need to design and 3d print print a darwin proof HV cover to prevent peeps from getting the darwin award. Cause the way it's running now if I dun start charging it monthly it's gonna fail sooner rather than later. 357k on the original battery sounds like a record to me.

 

If that pump just quits, it wouldn't do anything except light up a big Red Triangle when it gets hot. It doesn't disable your car right away.

The way the OP described how the car died, the pump would have to be shorted out. A bad HV battery wouldn't do that either.

So if the pump shorted out, then that's what he has to change. If the pump didn't short out, then he would have to do some diagnostics to figure out why the car quit (ex out of gas, inverter failure, failed fuel pump)

 

A battery problem would get you into limp mode and still work. Won't disable your car

 

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Just buy a Prolong charging lead and the Prolong charger system. Dont have to 3d anything.

A high mileage battery will require a full discharge/recharge cycle or 2. One discharge woke my 125,000 mile battery right up like new for a year now. Lots of us on this site use the system. Its available in the Prius Shop.

 

You would need to get the codes read, the guessing thing can be very time consuming and not very productive in solving your problem.

The way it just died.....I can tell you it will most likely be a very expensive problem (since it's not the shorted inverter pump)

 

We like using the MiniVci with Techstream using a laptop, but there are apps that can do that now. I don't use the wireless app version so others with more expertise would have to ring in to offer that advice.