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Originally Posted by Orcrone
Steve,
I've started doing the same thing. Turn off the A/C to accelerate and turn it back on when I reach speed. I also will turn it off when I'm trying to get a little extra out of EV mode. Of course I just leave it on when my wife's in the car. She already thinks I've gone crazy.  |
Given the TCH compressor is a 3 phase electric motor which runs off the batteries, I don't know if manual cycling is going to help. I could be wrong, but since there's no physical connection between the ICE and the compressor, the only harm that would come from hard acceleration and leaving the AC on is a more rapid depletion of battery level.