joshg678 Posted February 21, 2017 Report Share Posted February 21, 2017 (edited) I have a love hate relationship with them, I enjoy being lazy, but I don't like sitting and not moving. Over the weekend i went and got in line at the McDonald's to get my son a happy meal. Nice warm day, windows down no climate control. I sat in that line for 20 min before I got my food. Edited February 21, 2017 by joshg678 C-MaxSea and ptjones 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jestevens Posted February 22, 2017 Report Share Posted February 22, 2017 I've done this waiting in line for a car wash on the first warm day of Spring, The C-MAX at least runs the engine for a little while to get a decent SOC. When it used to happen in my '07 Prius it was annoying because that car -would not- run the engine long enough to get a decent SOC - it would just leave the HVB in a low SOC and keep cycling the engine off and on when you pressed the accelerator until you finally got going in traffic. I never had a problem where it would not start because of it but really unnerving when the car was doing that repeatedly in bumper to bumper gridlock traffic for 20 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-MaxSea Posted February 22, 2017 Report Share Posted February 22, 2017 (edited) ..............After about 15 min the SOC was about 20% and every time I let my foot off the brake the ICE would instantly fire up and would run for about 1 second after coming to a complete stop............ .................It was kind of neat. I could not agree more - nothing worse for gas mileage (& the planet) than ICE idle charging, theeee worst. As far as your co-worker - ding him with EV quiet. :giggle: :giggle: :giggle: We all need sound retraining. ICE idle noise is not good 'white' noise. Yust MO,Nick Edited February 22, 2017 by C-MaxSea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fbov Posted February 23, 2017 Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 Waiting in line (or in traffic) is a favorite thing to do in the C-Max... OK, maybe it's that no car has been better at it that the C-Max! Frank C-MaxSea 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelleytoons Posted February 24, 2017 Report Share Posted February 24, 2017 I play tennis at a lot of gate communities, and sometimes I have to wait for the gate guard to come out and let me in. I have, on more than one occasion, had to honk my horn, at which point they always say "I didn't even know there was a car out here". Sometimes you can be TOO quiet. obob 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stolenmoment Posted February 24, 2017 Report Share Posted February 24, 2017 I have to say that I'm much happier now, waiting in line at a drive-through in my Energi, because I'm not burning gas just to keep my inefficient power plant turning over for no better reason than it's hard to start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joshg678 Posted February 26, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2017 My coworker always says "you gonna start the car?"I respond "nah I'll just coast across the streat" ptjones 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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