Gas bars disappear despite showing ample gas range remaining

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TheBlueFlash

Discussion Starter · Apr 12, 2017

Technology Car Vehicle Family car Electronic device

Hi all,

I have a 2013 Volt Premium with 48k miles. Yesterday, I was running in charge sustaining mode (i.e. depleted battery) and I noticed the gas bars in the gas gauge disappear despite having over 100 miles remaining of gas. It was showing 3 gas bars or 1/4 tank when this happened. I will try to post a picture below. Once I got home and parked, I cut the car off, waited 10 seconds and started it back up and the bars were still gone. I plugged up and let it charge overnight. When I left in the morning the bars were back so all was good. Anyone else see this before?

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caskConditionedAle

· #2 · Apr 12, 2017

I've seen it a few times. Probably just a bug in the display update software routine. I don't think it is anything to worry about, your gas is still in the tank...

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caskConditionedAle

· #7 · Apr 13, 2017 (Edited)

feldmanbd said:
In about 10 or 15 minutes, when it used another "bar" of gas, the blue bars came back and everything was fine.

I'm a software engineer and this is a classic "display update" problem. When the software detected it needed to update the display due to gas usage, it went and did it.

It's a software bug. Your battery is fine and it wasn't caused by the hill.

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