[/The picture of my battery turns light green on occasion. Seems to be no rhyme or reason. Does this happen to anyone else...I can't find any info in my manual.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ywbird @ Oct 25 2007, 11:50 PM) [snapback]530570[/snapback]</div> the color of the battery corresponds to the amount of charge it has. I'm sure someone here has a diagram with all the percent values and the colors that they can correspond to. green = nearly full, blue = just right purple/red = low
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ywbird @ Oct 25 2007, 08:50 PM) [snapback]530570[/snapback]</div> Thank you so much!! Mystery solved.
Note that the color is redundant with the number of bars displayed. The color adds no new information, except in being more quickly recognized at a glance.
I was going to ask a question sorta about the same thing. I know that blue is the normal operating range, but is it bad for the battery to be in the green most of the time? I have quite a few long slow stops that I can make and I pretty much see the battery in the green most of the time. I just hope it's not bad for the battery?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(tlaine @ Oct 27 2007, 10:13 AM) [snapback]531219[/snapback]</div> If the charge state of the battery never changes, then there would be no reason for the expensive, heavy battery and HDS. Celebrate the SOC bar changes. Also note that the range of bars is a small fraction of the overall capacity of your battery. Empty doesn't mean anything like "discharged" - same with full. The car won't let you use more than maybe half of the battery capacity... EVER.
