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Billyk · #14 (**permalink**) 04-09-2008, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by essentricaudio

I have wondered about using the "jumpstart" feature to raise the %SOC then recharging the 12V battery with a normal battery charger.... was this by any chance one of the ways you tried? A poor man's PHEV for sure. not sure about the efficiency of doing it this way, probably pretty poor. But when I get home, the battery is pretty low, and always recharges for the first mile of the next trip, even with a few FS.

This has already been tried and posted on this site and no, it does not work. The original poor man's PHEV involved the engine block heater and concept that it would boost the hybrid battery State of Charge if one could get it below 30%. Well, I did get my hybrid battery below 30% by opening and closing the doors and playing the radio for a long period of time without the internal combustion engine on. I plugged in the engine block heater and then rechecked the voltage after 3 hours. Nope, it doesn't work this way either.

One question many of us have is whether the 2008 version has a "wired connection" from the engine block heater to the hybrid battery--the reason for the belief of poor mans PHEV. The 2005 thru 2007 models do have this. Some posters with the 2008 version report they missing this wired connection. There is a thread on this in this site in the past 8months.