Running ICE after self ICE ran

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I have experienced the same behavior, with the white bar continuing for some time even after the car switched to EV. It goes away in a few more minutes. Don’t worry about it.
 
su_A_ve said:
Had what I consider a glitch a few days ago. After a full charge, I may have stopped short too quickly in the parking lot. Regen with full battery made the engine kick in.

At that point, the gauge turned all white and EV status was off for a while. I figured engine needed to warm up fully before it would go back to normal. Eventually, EV status came back, but the gauge did not turn blue - it stayed white.

I drove a bit more, but noticed that the engine would kick back in after a little bit (and EV status would go off), even though I was driving 'nice'. Pressed HV button and engine would behave normally, even with a small blue gauge. But taking it off HV mode, went back to full white gauge and behaving weird with engine turning on and off.

At a stop light, I turned it off, and back on and started behaving correctly.
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Pretty sure that's the "System Check" mode; it happens every few weeks if you haven't otherwise caused the engine to start. It would be nice if it told us that's what it was doing, but it doesn't. The telltale sign is after the engine is warm, the "EV" indication comes back on and it sounds like the engine is off, but the gauge stays white; a few minutes later the engine starts again (EV off) and one more off-but-white then on cycle (15-20 minutes total) before the the blue bar and EV come back on for good.

It may not matter much, but personally I wouldn't interrupt it, assuming that it's doing *something* important with that time. Of course, working from home most of my trips these days are just a few miles so I often end up getting where I'm going before it's done. Last time I decided to be "nice" to it and drove around the area for another 15 minutes to let it finish before going to the grocery store, but that's just because the car really seems to miss our commute :-)
 
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