PHEV stuck on charge mode?

[maby]

True. But running the aircon will only result in starting the engine when the temp setting is not at the lowest. And then we are back to heating, right?

Of course, but demist involves heating. I should try (but my widfe has the car), I think demist overrides heating off.

Surely not - as Anko says only if the temperature is set higher than 15c. I am currently driving around with it set to 15c and switching on the aircon to demist (passengers insist on breathing for some reason :lol: ) when necessary and the ICE never starts because there is no heating involved. Of course, I therefore get revenge on the selfish passengers who have to put up with the cold draught :twisted:

I think it will be very dependent on ambient temperature and humidity. The demist function on a modern car generally uses the aircon running fairly high to dehumidify the air by cooling it significantly and then running this cooled and dried air through the heater to get it back up to the required temperature - but now much drier.

 

[Neverfuel]

I had a similar situation at the beginning of October whilst away from home for a few days. Temp was 6 degrees, car was set at 15 degrees. I couldn't pre heat the car as the wifi range was too short to reach from where I had parked my car. Got in switched on and hit demist. The engine started, when I tried to figure out why, I realised that the aircon came on with demist (snowflake symbol was showing). I was only going about a mile and a half, so didn't need heating so turned off the aircon and the engine turned off but the screen still cleared - presumably because the electric heater took over?

It did this on all three mornings I was away, so now I just set the mode switch to blow on the screen, rather than my feet and turn the fan to full.