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Vehicle
Mfgs Emergency
Response Guides
Hats off to the vehicle manufacturers
for producing detailed emergency response guides for their Hybrid models. The
ERG's really do contain everything you can imagine on most all Hybrid Vehicles
out there today.
What we discovered after going through
thousands of ERG pages was that many of the high voltage shut down procedures
and component locations varied from vehicle to vehicle.
For example did you know?
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There are high voltage HEV's running
Orange cables and intermediate voltage HEV's running Blue cables. There's even
low voltage cables colored Yellow.
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12v auxiliary batteries are not all
located under the hood or in the trunk, and some you can't even get to.
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High voltage battery packs and service
disconnect switches are not only designed differently
per/Mfg. but are also found in many different locations. Some 'good' some 'not
so good'
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Even electric and manual trunk openers
are not all located in the same place.
If it's not under the seat, try the glove box! Not there? look next to the
steering column on the dash. Can't see it? Open that little door built in to the
dash. Whoop! there it is! - It sure would be nice if the Mfgs. all got together
to put these items of importance all in the same place on every vehicle
manufactured.
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Then there's issues the Road Service
folks have to contend with. Some of these vehicles can be jump started
(re-energized) without jumper cables which is a great feature however the procedures vary
from one vehicle to the next.
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Many have remote jump start hookup
terminals to make things a little easier for Road Service folks but again, their
locations vary.
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Some statements by the manufacturers
say 'Don't go near a submerged Hybrid! less you know for sure that it is shut
down/ disabled and the High Voltage Battery is basically done fizzling' while
others say go right ahead and jump right in the water, (nothing to worry about)
..because of the inconsistent
component locations, shut down procedures and power down times is why we decided
to produce a short, user friendly quick reference field guide.
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