Blue and Green battery symbol
#2
01-25-2008, 11:49 AM
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Re: Blue and Green battery symbol
Do you mean the display where it shows the wheels turning and the electric motor and ICE?
If you do, then the blue arrows pointing from the wheels to the battery (ie when you're coasting/braking) mean the battery is getting charged. If its a yellow arrow pointing from the battery to the wheels, then it means the the battery is supplying the electric motor with energy to propel your car (whether the ICE is on or not)
If you do, then the blue arrows pointing from the wheels to the battery (ie when you're coasting/braking) mean the battery is getting charged. If its a yellow arrow pointing from the battery to the wheels, then it means the the battery is supplying the electric motor with energy to propel your car (whether the ICE is on or not)
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01-25-2008, 12:01 PM
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Re: Blue and Green battery symbol
Do you mean the display where it shows the wheels turning and the electric motor and ICE?
If you do, then the blue arrows pointing from the wheels to the battery (ie when you're coasting/braking) mean the battery is getting charged. If its a yellow arrow pointing from the battery to the wheels, then it means the the battery is supplying the electric motor with energy to propel your car (whether the ICE is on or not)
If you do, then the blue arrows pointing from the wheels to the battery (ie when you're coasting/braking) mean the battery is getting charged. If its a yellow arrow pointing from the battery to the wheels, then it means the the battery is supplying the electric motor with energy to propel your car (whether the ICE is on or not)
#4
01-25-2008, 12:06 PM
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Re: Blue and Green battery symbol
Blue = Gettin low? (<75% full)
This winter my batter has been mostly blue (must be sad about all the cold weather and all the times its been stuck in my driveway haha) I can get it into the green if I coast for like half a mile and ride my brakes a little at the end.
I've never seen it get below half full, so I don't know if it like turns red or something?
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01-25-2008, 12:11 PM
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Re: Blue and Green battery symbol
Lime green = mostly full -> all full (i'm guessing something like >75% full)
Blue = Gettin low? (<75% full)
This winter my batter has been mostly blue (must be sad about all the cold weather and all the times its been stuck in my driveway haha) I can get it into the green if I coast for like half a mile and ride my brakes a little at the end.
I've never seen it get below half full, so I don't know if it like turns red or something?
Thanks for that explanation Katie. That makes sense.
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Blue = Gettin low? (<75% full)
This winter my batter has been mostly blue (must be sad about all the cold weather and all the times its been stuck in my driveway haha) I can get it into the green if I coast for like half a mile and ride my brakes a little at the end.
I've never seen it get below half full, so I don't know if it like turns red or something?
Thanks for that explanation Katie. That makes sense.
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#6
01-25-2008, 12:30 PM
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Re: Blue and Green battery symbol
Try a little harder and you will get a nice royal purple...I feel like I might have seen a red as well.I think the operating range of that scale is something like 40% - 80% of total battery capacity. There is a thread around here somewhere....there might be something in the FAQ about this as well.
#7
01-25-2008, 12:59 PM
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Re: Blue and Green battery symbol
I ran mine down to almost nothing the other day. I was stretching my tank a bit too far and ran out of gas. (I knew it was going to be sketchy if I was going to make it to my favorite gas station, and as luck would have it I did not make it, so I had to settle for one that was $0.02 more a gallon.) I ran about a mile on battery at 60 MPH, and when I got to the gas pump I had one bar left and it was still purple.
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01-25-2008, 02:05 PM
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Re: Blue and Green battery symbol
I usually see purple when I get stuck in traffic jams during the summer with the A/C on.
If you really want to understand the State of Charge bar graphs, you might want to look at the following web page:
http://privatenrg.com/
It's oriented towards simulating Prius mileage, but most of the information is applicable to the Camry Hybrid. Look towards the bottom of the page for battery state of charge information.
If you really want to understand the State of Charge bar graphs, you might want to look at the following web page:
http://privatenrg.com/
It's oriented towards simulating Prius mileage, but most of the information is applicable to the Camry Hybrid. Look towards the bottom of the page for battery state of charge information.
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01-25-2008, 05:36 PM
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Re: Blue and Green battery symbol
I ran mine down to almost nothing the other day. I was stretching my tank a bit too far and ran out of gas. (I knew it was going to be sketchy if I was going to make it to my favorite gas station, and as luck would have it I did not make it, so I had to settle for one that was $0.02 more a gallon.) I ran about a mile on battery at 60 miles per hour, and when I got to the gas pump I had one bar left and it was still purple.
#10
01-28-2008, 08:18 AM
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Re: Blue and Green battery symbol
I have gotten as much as 17.846 gallons in the tank before, but for some reason I really could not get more than 17.777 in this time. I also did not really try that hard to fill the neck full. I just went to the next dollar after it clicked off, I might have even skipped the first even dollar and gone to the second.
This morning, I added a full gallon after the nossle hit the auto stop. (I only put in 16.433 gallons. Man, I still had 60 miles till I was empty!)
