Key Tips to Make Your Hybrid Battery Last LONGER!

[@FredAndersonToyota]

Let us know your questions about repair, service, and maintenance and we'll try to answer it in a future video! Thanks for Subscribing! Jeff

[@williamdebene2394]

Bro what the hell are you doing? You’re supposed to be wearing leather & natural rubber gloves at a minimum

[@seymorefact4333]

⭐⭐ GREAT INFO ALI! i have a 2012 Prius w/ 110k miles. My battery bar in the vehicle doesn't "top off". The top bar is blank. Is this normal for the milage OR is there a dead cell? Do i need to replace the hybrid battery?

[@Irishmanbikes]

Thanks Ali for all the great tips!! And thanks Jeff for asking Ali for more and more tips!

[@FredAndersonToyota]

I figured he had some more in him haha

[@rkgsd]

All these dont's are not what I wanted to hear, but definitely good to know. My main issue is with the fact that aggressive driving has an impact on long-term battery health. I recently heard the same thing regarding fully electric vehicles. I like a little spirited driving on occasion.

[@IraLipson]

I wish I lived in North Carolina. It sounds like Fred Anderson Toyota has an ethical, honest service department. That is unlike where I bought my 2022 Prius. I have to say I have high recommendation for the car. It is a gas economy champ- the reason I bought it for. While it is not the king of acceleration (that’s what I expected), it has sporty handling. It hugs the road when traveling on cloverleaf exits. The exterior looks are deceiving. It has generous legroom. It is the one car I have ever owned or leased that I have confidence in. There is a reason that Toyota is the world’s car sales leader. It is well earned.

[@dannybryant6873]

@@IraLipson . The latest Prius with the whopping 2 liter engine actually has good acceleration.

[@donaldlee6760]

Really great video! My 2006 Toyota Highlander Hybrid recently rolled past 200k miles. My Dr. Prius app on my phone can read some of the hybrid battery values and includes a simple hybrid battery health check. Mine still tests as good but I plan to replace the battery whenever it finally needs replacement. I'm curious how much a battery costs (battery only) on a 1st gen Highlander Hybrid?

[@dannybryant6873]

I saw a video where a person showed how to replace all the cells (new cells) in a Prius traction battery for under $2000. Then return the old ones (probably a core charge).

[@tbkilb01]

keeping hybrid battery cooling fan clean is critical too. ive seen a couple just caked with dirt hair and paper...

[@adrianocarotenuto498]

Great tips!

[@jafinch78]

Would be neat for the gen 2 Priuses to have a bluetooth add on BMS that can plug in an open source app with a dedicated smartphone or screen so can parallel a second battery in of course with a dedicated fan and ducting. Seems can even do a more simple plug in hybrid system upgrade with a lithium or sodium or other battery pack voltage range spec and a diode pack inline with the wiring to the contactor so only can be discharged and not charged other than when plugged in. Great video and advice! Seems so rare to see something Prius related from Toyota, other than the newer vehicles maybe.

[@alanmorrison3598]

Oh that's just great! 6:14

[@bonganihalimani9572]

Great tips really. So i guess sometimes when theres heavy traffic you have to run the engine for a bit to charge the battery?

[@mobinchishti]

Thank u Ali and Jeff for this great video and tips. Can u please do a part 2 for tips and also include and charging related tips best practices. And I have a question: is it okay to keep the charging cable plugged in (for plug in hybrid) even after vehicle has completed charging and is just parked? Also same question but if vehicle is parked out of the garage in colder winter (snow) weather? Thanks, appreciate it.

[@Mike-ht1ou]

wondering what is difference between idling and actually driving vehicle in terms of battery wear. Wouldn’t idling be less taxing on the electrical system vs driving and using electric motors

[@JeffreyHAREWOOD-m5o]

When you idle with the A/C on, the hybrid battery is powering the A/C (unlike a regular car which uses the engine) which will run it down. However the engine turns on to charge the battery when it gets too low. The battery charges / discharges normally with regular driving. That said, idling is unavoidable most of the time, and if outside is hot, you're not going to idle with the A/C off. I do believe the electric motor will outlast the battery in vast majority of cases so using it shouldn't be an issue.

[@farisabdelfattah7585]

Hi all , Thanks for the great informative video, my question is can Nh battery be replaced for Li-ion battery due to more reliable and likely more life than the NH battery.

[@rightlanehog3151]

Thanks!

[@collintuaundu7765]

Does this mean I must run the Aircon in a hybrid all the time to cool off the battery?

[@GAderly-fn5ly]

What's the fully charged voltage of that battery? What's the voltage when it's determined to need replaced?

[@robkunkel8833]

🌲🌴🧜🏽 In a 70,000 population, our one Toyota dealer has one mechanic who knows like my 2010 Gen3. I had a disaster of a back seat in the Virgin Islands during my long ownership. We went through a replacement on warranty. Now it needs it again. I am struggling with a new ⚠️CheckHybridSystem but this has been after two visits to the dealer (it went away for two days) and ONE YEAR. Dealer says new 5K batter plus expensive shipping and a TrumpTariff now? . I have vented the back seat and trunk to the max. Will vent it more now. Keep A Cool Yule, y’all. & 🎉Thanks Ali.

[@alanmorrison3598]

So on a hot day in city traffic just turn off the AC and open the windows right? 10:05

[@JasbirSingh-zj1fg]

Yup. You might get a heat stroke but your hybrid car battery is guaranteed to last longer 🙃

[@alanmorrison3598]

So if a battery fire happens then the products if combustion, (extremely toxic), go directly to the back seat where your child may be? 4:45

[@seymorefact4333]

⭐⭐ GREAT INFO ALI! i have a 2012 Prius w/ 110k miles. My battery bar in the vehicle doesn't "top off". The top bar is blank. Is this normal for the milage OR is there a dead cell? Do i need to replace the hybrid battery?

[@stevenhill7614]

What about towing ? About 2,000 pound jetski trailer . This would be for a Sienna ?

[@colonelfustercluck486]

so if the fan doesn't suck, it may blow ??

[@otthans]

How to prep the hybrid battery (not 12v) for long term storage, e.g leaving car parked for up to 3 months?

[@tbkilb01]

once charged ,system will run engine to burn off charge for battery

[@alanmorrison3598]

Not true..Most new cars have auto stop/start which sucks but it can be disabled in favor of manually shutting off the engine depending on the circumstance so you point is invalid. 2:48

[@jimbarron2596]

I have a hybrid tundra. How long can I safely store the car in a garage when I’m traveling before the battery (either 12V or hybrid battery) will discharge and I’ll have to get a jump start

[@robkunkel8833]

… replacing the 12 volt and keeping the old one w/ a cheap

[@dannybryant6873]

Trickle charge the 12 Volt battery.

[@AlexV-pf3io]

Hybrids do not starts with 12 volts battery, and you can not jump start them

[@dannybryant6873]

@@AlexV-pf3io. Why can't you jump the 12 Volt battery? Should be easy and safe since no surge of starting current is needed. But if that battery is sitting at 7 Volts, you're not going. At least based on my wife's Ford hybrid.

[@AlexV-pf3io]

@@jimbarron2596 Danny I have meant you can’t jump the hybrid car, but initial surge you can do to its 12 volt battery

[@Heisenberg.735]

I have 2022 toyota Highlander hybrid and 30k miles on it and its annoying the crap out of me However it gets me 150-250 extra miles per tank compared to regular Highlander. But i still want to trade this in and get a regular engine car since this have really kept the value, fyi it has only lost 20% of the value of when it was new

[@L0v0lup]

Why/What is annoying you?

[@douaxiong4513]

My 2010 still running like a o’clock and she got 178k.

[@alanmorrison3598]

I wouldn't keep ANY EV or hybrid vehicle in a garage and certainly not in a below ground parking structure. The fire/explosion risk is too great friend! 1:08

[@JasbirSingh-zj1fg]

I've never heard of Toyota Priuses or any other Toyota hybrids catch fire in the last 20 years.

[@L0v0lup]

This rarely happens. The risk is MUCH higher on BEV since they get charged to 100%. A Toyota will probably never have >70% when getting home. Real world example: Many ships only allow BEV's on their ship with 40% or less charge, since it greatly reduces the risk of explosions/fires of the battery. So i believe a hybrid should be relatively fine.

[@skiph3]

Statistically you are wrong.

[@L0v0lup]

@ who? me?

[@RD-ce6bb]

👍

[@thatkat31]

I have kind of a strange question... I'm about to buy my first Hybrid (Toyota Corolla). During Hurricane Helene, I lost electricity for a week. I would use my car to charge the battery on my cell phone about once a day. Would that be feasible with a Hybrid? I mean, if it was just sitting still, charging my cell phone? Or would I need to actually drive around to keep everything functioning properly? Thanks so much.

[@codincoman9019]

@@thatkat31 Strange question indeed. The answer is yes as long as you have your battery above minimum. Mobile phones need very little energy. Wouldn't it be better (more relaxing, lower perceived risk etc.) to purchase a cheap electricity bank?

[@thatkat31]

@@codincoman9019 I had one. Unfortunately, with no electricity, it got drained quickly. It was solar powered, too, but took forever to charge in sunlight. And my phone took hours to charge on it. I've since bought another one so one could charge outside during the day while the other one was being used in case this ever happens again, but nothing compared to the quickness of charging in the car.

[@AlexV-pf3io]

Yes, you can switch the car into Inspection mode so an engine can run as long as you have fuel in it

[@thatkat31]

@@AlexV-pf3io Thank you so much!!!

[@L0v0lup]

​@@thatkat31 But do not keep in in neutral! Put it into P. If you keep it in "N", the 12V will go to 0 in no time. (You will not use much fuel even if the car is "on". For 1 hour of idling, the engine turns on 2-3 minutes)

[@mellarx1277]

Do you prefer hybrid over EV? Do you own an electric car?

[@familytabrizi76]

My Priusv has over 550k same engine & same hybrid battery 😂😂😂.

[@AlexV-pf3io]

Prius never will charge its battery to 80 + % no matter how much braking reserve you have

[@chuckwalla2967]

That 80% charge upper limit is an arbitrary mythical number someone came up with that everyone follows blindly.

[@dannybryant6873]

Zero to 100 percent on the graph you can see is roughly 60 to 80 percent on the actual battery. Is why they last so long.

[@rkgsd]

No one brings up the fact that the EPA range is based on charging to 100%, therefore it's misleading since lithium ion batteries can't be routinely charged all the way.

[@dannybryant6873]

@@rkgsd. Hybrids carry the energy in liquid fuel. So range is liquid fuel limited. And the main traction battery can be a nickel battery for good power performance. Don't need lithium and its good energy performance.

[@jafinch78]

My experience is once you start seeing 100% all green bars, expect something with the HV battery like a module to go bad in the next 6-8 months. I also like running Hybrid Assistant with a dedicated smart phone most all the time, especially during warm weather with the HV battery fan set to the lowest setting so to turn on the fan for better battery cooling versus the stock quiet mode controls. Torque is supposed to be better for controlling the fan as well. Dr Prius or like the Autel cheap bluetooth OBD2 adapters can provide insight into which module block is going bad so can let the pack sit once you measure after removing so to see which module discharges at the higher rate and or doesn't hold charge due to the bad cell in the module.

[@MagnumDB]

Wrong. There is provable measurable evidence that after 80% charging speed drops immensely. It can take as long or longer to charge from 80-100% as it did to charge from 0-80%.

[@hanko5750]

So don't buy a hybrid in Arizona (go ahead find a tree to park under) .. Or anyplace with winter temps either.

[@williamdebene2394]

Someone call osha asap! Turn around and open the orange toolbox and wear your p.p.e. Holy crap these guys are insane!!!!

[@dannybryant6873]

These Toyota hybrids are electric cars with gasoline engine assist. No annoying start/stop system needed. The gasoline assist engine only runs when needed or to warm up.

[@codincoman9019]

Wrong first phrase, it's viceversa.

[@dannybryant6873]

@codincoman9019 . You are sort of correct for speeds above 45 mph. The 2 electric motors manipulate the gasoline engine using the planetary gearset to make it do all the work at the most efficient rpm and load. What I wrote is totally correct for speeds below 45 mph. The main traction motor propells the vehicle through a direct drive (the same as most battery electric cars). Gasoline engine assist is provided through the planetary gearset if acceleration beyond the capability of the traction motor is requested. The gasoline assist engine also runs to warm up and if the traction battery needs some additional charge.

[@codincoman9019]

@@dannybryant6873 You are mostly correct for the city driving. But even then, my Lexus hybrid uses the hybrid battery at most for a few minutes/miles, making the EV mode to be in use at most 25% (I'm exxagerating, ofc) of the time, if you drive in a specific way. Because the intention behind the self-charging hybrids (invented by Honda and Toyota more than two decades ago, "in parallel") was to save fuel, not to be primary electric (thus the wrong label of HEV - to manipulate the EV statistics for the benefit of the BEV, mandated by the WEF [globalist "elites" interface] through the political puppets they own all around the world). And you know very well that the electric part is saving the kinetic energy (otherwise lost in ICE cars - when braking/coasting downhill - by dissipating the heat created by the friction that destroys faster the brake pads, rotors etc.) through the regenerative braking, to be used later for starts, initial or high accelerations etc. That's why the SCH purpose is best achieved in cities and hilly areas, helping save lots of fuel, while during long trips outside cities, on flat roads is almost useless. The ECVT merit is also important for the overall savings (including the absence of the starter, alternator etc., partially offsetting the expense with the hybrid system) and for the biggest reliability among car segments (proven by CR statistics), helpings achieve the lowest TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) too. So what is important for science-based people is that the SCH proves to be the best of both worlds (and my small statistics, with hundreds of Self-Charging Hybrids in car fleets, confirms the big savings). I guess we can agree on this.

[@dannybryant6873]

@@codincoman9019 . Another big plus is allowing the use of an efficiency tuned Atkinson cycle engine so anytime the engine is running it is using less fuel than the Otto cycle regular engine. And at high altitudes the variable value timing probably adjusts back toward Otto cycle to keep more of the air fuel in the combustion chamber to maintain power. Almost like free forced induction.

[@codincoman9019]

@@dannybryant6873 Yes, good mentions. People not studying what SCHs are and having bad words about them are either die-hard petrol heads or EVangelists (but I would rather keep my amazing ICE cars - a Miata and a Jimny - than moving to a BRV or PHEV clunker). Both wrong, because they do not understand the way SCHs work, making them the best choice we have to lower cars impact on the planet. Of course, there are some disadvantages such as the polluting hybrid battery (but that is quite small vs. the large BEV batteries). And I am not referring to CO2 (that is not a pollutant, but trees' air). All the best!

[@arthurfilippidis9170]

Initial cost, servicing, insurance, maintenance, battery replacement very expensive and resale cheap

[@alanmorrison3598]

Interesting?! No unsafe as hell! 6:47

[@Americafirst-i8q]

Going through all these troubles to save some gas. Stop voting democrat and the gas prices will go back down to normal.

[@ginog5037]

Exactly 💯

[@dannybryant6873]

Save a little gasoline. Replace more turbos. Decarbon the direct injection engines occasionally. Change the oil more often (oil dilution) or replace engine occasionally. Discard EV if collision results in small dent in the traction battery. Is this stuff really better for the planet?

[@Juan-uk4xb]

It’s not only that if we don’t waste fuel we can use petroleum in more productive ways and stop giving money to all those crazy countries with crazy leaders

[@mikej238]

😂 Really explain how. US is producing more oil than ever. You can't get blood out of a stone and you can't force oil companies to " drill baby drill" they don't want to drive down the price

[@eddiecuevas1085]

Prices of everything will go "back to normal". lol

[@SamW604]

Excellent video. Thanks.

[@FredAndersonToyota]

Thank YOU!!