Well I got a scare the other day. Normally the battery stripes are blue.....right? Well mine got down to one line and was purple. Has anyone else had this problem.Freaked me out!!
It's not a "Problem", it's a feature. You were probably in slow moving traffic and your car continued to run without unnecessarily using the ICE. The ICE will come on to charge the battery when necessary.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(kayemarschke2 @ Jun 5 2007, 07:27 PM) [snapback]456121[/snapback]</div> You wouldn't believe how many hundreds of other posts we've seen over the years that were identical to yours. It's a new owner ritual... which seems to have an "enlightenment" effect on many. Awareness of the system is heightened afterward. So there's a worthwhile benefit of just allowing the "freak out" to happen. Though, I have requested suggestions about how to emphasize that information. It's clearly illustrated in both the USER-GUIDE and INFO-SHEET. But my guess is that people just don't understand the importance of what they are being shown until afterward. 1 bar is not empty. 8 bars is not full. How can we better point out that it is just a relative measure, showing only the normal operating range rather than the entire capacity of the battery-pack?
The bar graph for the battery was only blue until I had some work done on it by the dealer. Now I'm getting blue, green and pink colors on the bar graph. Any idea what the colors mean?
The colors are eye candy redundant with the number of bars. There are options for the display color scheme. I haven't played with it, but perhaps one of those options keeps all bars the same color regardless of their number, and the recent service changed the option.
