[quote=super10s;163860]Man, its a real pain to own a brand new Toyota hybrid vehicle and have to jump-start it because the 12v battery went dead ,....AGAIN! This is particularly frustrating when you know there's 1.21 gigawatts in the NiCad array just sitting there untappable.


An interesting fact is that if you leave the car in "Ready" mode, the NiMH traction battery will charge the little twit of a 12V battery if the voltage falls beyond a set point. And when the big guy drops, of course, the engine starts and recharges it with MG1. I've used this to power a 700 watt inverter with outages here - the inverter directly connected to the battery with heavy cables - don't have to constantly check on the battery state as I had to with the Volvo, and run it every hour or so to charge.

Hopefully your problem was just a defective battery, and not a tricky problem like the Camry with the defective remote starting switch.

Pete