Electric Hybrid Vehicles at Pals Ocala Auto Repair
It’s Patrick at Pals Chuck what have we got here it’s a Ford cax this a Ford cmax what’s this guy do right here what is that for well for the plug it oh okay so you plug this car in so you don’t put gasoline in it or diesel
Fuel no this is a an electric hybrid car an electric hybrid now look under underneath folks that looks like an engine and what’s unique about this vehicle is if you notice we have two coolant reservoirs why because we have two different cooling systems for the car this system cools the main engine
This system cools the the capacitors for the the hybrid electric part of the motor so this car plugs in at your house charges up and then the Hybrid battery helps the main engine run when it gets low on voltage or electricity so this car gets a wide range out of itself due
To the systems and how they’re set in place and it still requires engine oil still requires engine oil so is this considered a hybrid or an electric it’s considered a hybrid electric a hybrid electric right it’s a combination of two uh of both both systems and that’s just
To get more range out of the car more more driving distance out of the the electric motor M and the hybrid electric motor now when you look at these cars this one has obviously got a problem um how do you diagnose what is different about diagnosing a hybrid electric than
A regular gas engine car really almost nothing um the difference is that you’re just looking at different systems but you’re still plugging and talking to the computer on the car the computer in this vehicle had codes for a cooling fan problem and a cooling pump problem and
Not not the pump for the engine but the pump for the capacitors on the hybrid side also the main battery inside the car was not getting enough air pulled across it in order to keep it cool as well so what we’re doing to this is we’re putting a new hybrid electric pump
On for the capacitors and then we’re also putting in uh three new cooling fans to cool the main battery down that’s inside the car because these are not performing the way that they’re supposed to and the way that we diagnose that is basically we hooked into the car
Used our our resources for technical information to get the right information in order to fix the vehicle so when you’re looking at this you’ve got the engine which is traditional you know how to look at the things on that then you’ve got the inverter which is over
Here now where is the main battery located on this uh typically somewhere inside the car usually behind the back seat uh they they’ll mount it upward sideways behind the back seat and hence that’s why they they have cooling fans for them because those batteries get real hot and if you don’t have proper
Cooling for them it can cause the battery to malfunction so you know folks you think when you’re buying a hybrid uh that you’re just buying one system you’re not you’re buying two different systems you’ve got an electric and an engine so you’ve got an electric motor and then you’ve got the engine and
You have to decide which one is causing the problem that is correct we use the information from the computer to tell us which systems to test we look up the proper testing via all data or whatever information service we’re using and that tells us what direction to go in E
Energy you know these cars you have to take a look at the way that they work and they have inverters in them and they have batteries and these cars work by electricity you plug them in by the side so where traditionally we look at the Boys and
Girls Club van and that’s a gasoline engine this car has an electric motor so it’s not an engine because it doesn’t Pump Air it’s an electric motor and the batteries the battery in this car there’s two batteries there’s a small battery and then there’s a large battery and the
Large battery controls the car going down the road now it has cooling fans it has all types of ways to keep the vehicle cool going down the road this one came in and it’s not operating correctly where we would be normally checking air and fuel delivery we’re checking electrical delivery and
Keeping the vehicle cool that’s how you diagnose a cat youve got to look at what makes it run and find out why it’s not running correctly usually it’s a cooling problem same thing with a gasoline engine usually it comes down to a cooling problem if you’ve got a CX bring it to
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Hybrid and Electric vehicles can get great service from Pals Ocala Auto Repair. We are skilled at diagnosing the issues that EV and Hybrid vehicles have. We love servicing and repairing all kinds of vehicles here, including EVs, Hybrids, luxury vehicles, classic cars, RVs, and more. When your vehicle needs expert care, bring it to Pals Ocala Auto Repair in Ocala, Florida. See you soon!
