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Thanks for that. Will do some research and will also need to check it doesn't affect my warranty. If all is well I will definitely get one :( Thank you for your help Billy To all, Thanks a lot for your inputs. Knowing this problem is real, and no body from Lexus has never mentioned this fact (at least to me), don't you think we could ask to Lexus to solve it at in own charge, at least during warranty period ?

Hello every body. I have a RX400H from 4 months. It's a fantastic car in my opinion. All was working perfectly. But... But from few days, the hybird system doesn't work very well. Where I live (in Paris - France ) it started to be cold from few days. Not so cold, but let say the outside temperature is going up to 3 ° C during thre night. Well, my Lexus stay outside during the night. In the morning the temperature is around 7° C, and when in the morning I drive it to my work during 8 miles (around 25 minutes) : the electric engine doesn't work well. I mean the batteries starts to be in the green level quickly, and as soon as I touch the pedal, the gaz engine starts. When I stop to a red light, the gaz engine doesn't stop. Than after few hours in the inside garage of my company, I go to lunch and the electric engines start to work normally. I spoke with my dealer which was very surprised. He never heard about that. Than he call someone, and told me there is a minimum required temperature for the electric engines. He spoke about 60 °. Was it Fahrenheit or Celsius ? He didn't know. FYI 60° C is equal to 140° F. (he wasn't clear, I think he didn't understand what was explained to him) But anyway, after few minutes of driving, the gaz engine is hot, and that should work ? Does any body has the same issue ? Thanks in advance for your answer. PS : I recently posted the same post on the US forum (I didn't notice one was available for UK), and I had 2 answers saying this issue is related to the catalytic converter temperatue and that in winter the electric system is less efficient. I'm a bit concern by that, I've never been told about it before buying this car..But as I didn't see any post on this subject before mine, I'm wondering if this is true for all, or just for my car...