[Hartside]

Under hard acceleration, should the engine kick in to assist the battery? Twice it has left me wondering, the first time I overtook a car and expected the engine to come in but only the battery was used feeling a little underpowered. Second time to test it, I pull out of a junction and pushed the accelerator to the floor but not activating the kick down switch and again it only accelerated on battery power. Is this normal as I thought anything over about 50% would have brought in the engine? If I pull the boost, the engine will kick in.

[MontyB1]

On ours the engine kicks in fairly keenly, give the throttle a firm quick prod and it wakes up and adds power quickly. I don’t drive it that much but haven’t found a time it didn’t kick in when I’ve expected it too.

I don’t know the actual point it triggers, sometimes sudden presses wakes it jp more than you expect it might others if you’re stready it doesn’t. Never found a time it hasn’t woken up to make swift process though.

[boupas]

It starts up if you kick down, but I avoid doing that, especially on cold days, as the engine is cold and revs hard upon waking. Sometimes, I let the car idle in S mode for a couple of minutes to allow the ICE to warm up for such situations.

[Pganders]

Yes, mine kicks in under hard and sometimes not so hard acceleration without any intervention from me.

[Hartside]

Thanks all, I’ll have to play a bit more as my feeling at the moment is that it will only come in on mine if I use kick down, which I hate. I’m quite progressive with the throttle and maybe I need to push quickly and see what happens.

[Hartside]

Tried today and the engine on mine doesn’t kick in on hard throttle, only on the kick down or if I pull the boost paddle. Snicking the gear selector from D to S also immediately turns on the petrol engine

[mvmv]

Maybe you have enabled the option to activate automatically electric mode at start?

[MontyB1]

Originally Posted by Hartside

Tried today and the engine on mine doesn’t kick in on hard throttle, only on the kick down or if I pull the boost paddle. Snicking the gear selector from D to S also immediately turns on the petrol engine

As mentioned above that doesn’t seem right, if I for example accelerate only a motorway and want to gather a little more speed it kicks the engine in, I definitely don’t need to hit the kick down or really press hard it can be quite progressive.

I’d check some of the settings doesn’t seem quite right somehow.