My brother-in-law has a Yaris Cross hybrid, if he doesn't drive it for more than a couple of weeks the 12V battery goes flat. All the local dealer have suggested after multiple visits is that he keeps a small solar panel in the car connected to the 12V feed in the OBD socket - good idea, except the car is parked in the garage!!!
Does the garage have electricity? If so, there are these devices called "battery maintainers".
Most of their straight ICE products have a very good reputation on this side of the pond -- far better than anything VAG has made in the last 20 or so years. Their older hybrids like the Prius, but I'm not at all sure about their current generation of (more?) electrified stuff.
15 years ago, I was at a Bass Pro Shops location where Toyota had set up a booth showing off some of their engineering choices and why it made their cars more reliable than the competition - things like felt body shims instead of rubber, over-spec'd top-end materials, stronger suspension components, better software tunes, etc. I want that Toyota back, the one that really cared about making a better product than their competition. They still do it in EPA metrics (Toyota still makes the best hybrid drive systems, for example), but they stopped doing it in the quality of materials and assembly.
Sadly it doesn't.
Put a 12V solar panel on the roof, or even on a south-facing wall and and run a pair of wires inside to plug into the car?
Which some in the UK take to specifically mean it doesn't have outlets. I'm covering that possibility, just in case.
I'm a qualified electrical/electronics engineer, I know what having electricity means!
Unfortunately this situation has been developing for a long time. With China expanding into all world markets with lower cost products and Russia's imperialism, the world has changed forever. This is the new reality and no country is immune.
Why do so many Youtube videos use absurd click-bait titles?
Misleading click-bait titles equal down-votes (thumbs down) from me.Because clicks = MONEY
