Hilander hybrid battery bar scale
 

I have 5000 miles on my HH and have never had the battery bars show fully charged, there is always one or more bars that are not colored in.The bars turn from blue to green when its one bar away from fully charged. Has anyone ever had all the bars colored in??? JOE

Re: Hilander hybrid battery bar scale
 

It never fully charges or fully discharges. It would shorten the life of the battery.

Re: Hilander hybrid battery bar scale
 

Fully charged on the icon is actually only 80% of actual capacity, and empty is 40%. The reason you rarely see the battery completely fill up is because it tries to manage it so that there's always a bit of space available for more regen, the vehicle can't predict what's coming up. Sometimes you can fill the battery by going down a very long, steep hill, this is a common thing around here, but if you don't do that kind of hill then you probably won't see it too often, if ever. The other reason for it rarely filling all the way up is that there are varying amounts of battery charge for each 'bar' on the screen.
see: http://privatenrg.com/
http://privatenrg.com/index.55.jpg

Also, keep in mind that there's nothing wrong with it never being full. That is perfectly normal and healthy operation.