Hybrid ICE Wear and Tear

[rivermaverick]

If you knew anything about emissions testing you would know it's pretty hard to do with measuring tail pipe emissions.

You are correct, a probe up the tailpipe of a warmed up engine is pretty much a waste of time. The federal emission test consists of having the car sit for 12 hours at a set temperatue, then cold started and driven through a series of modes, stop start, accel-decel, steady state etc. Then stopped, hood closed and hot soaked then hot started and driven through another series of modes. The exaust is sealed and all the gasses go into the sampleing system. Obviously impossible to do on consumer cars, one of the objectives of OBDII is that the vehicle is constantly doing it's own emission testing and illuminate the MIL if the emission exceed the EPA limits.
The EVAP system goes through a whole different set of test.

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[HeyBales]

I feel like revving an engine while it's in park would cause so premature wear and tear on various components.

Pretty sure that was just a poor description of the method to just get the engine to turn on when it's not cold enough for the system to do it on it's own. Not really to just sit and rev it.
You just push the pedal down far enough - engine turns on, sure you knew that already.

My route out of the neighborhood is a quick down hill so all EV, then a hill and turn into traffic - hate doing that with initial start engine brought in on hill under good load quickly.
So I turn on the engine when I first get in, then seatbelt, hit OK's, radio - then take off - 20 sec run time I figure isn't bad, I can hear the engine idle slow by then. That way 30 sec later when it's auto-started going up hill, it feels better to me not under instant load dryer than need be.

 

[MakinDoForNow]

Hi Guys. Finally decided to register because I have a question.
My understanding is that the ICE does not kick in until x mph. I don't know the exact speed but when it does kick in, let's say rpm starts above 1500 i guess and on a cold start with the all the oil still at the bottom, doesn't that cause major wear and tear on the engine?
Hoping you guys could explain because I have no idea how it works.

The ice is started soon after ready state is initiated to distribute oil and warm cats for proper operating temps. Depending on temps alone not just battery or needing to for propulsion needs maybe to warm or cool cats, fluid, battery, etc. Someone had a scan gage on his truck displaying among other things the ice rpm. When the ice was started the rpm jumped from 0 to 800+ without other numbers showing. After the 800+ (I have no idea what the sample rate of the rpm is but appeared to be less than one second???).

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