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Hybrid Powertrain Control Module

The computer that coordinates the whole hybrid system — when the engine runs, how the electric machines share the work, when the battery charges, what the accelerator pedal's request becomes. Every other powertrain module takes its cues from it, so a fault here produces symptoms that look like faults everywhere: the corpus's one-shared-thing argument at its most senior. It is also married to the vehicle — immobiliser, battery data, learned values — so a replacement must be programmed to the car, and condemning it without first ruling out the supply and earth faults that make healthy modules fail self-checks is the expensive version of the mistake.

Also known as: hybrid ecu, hv ecu, hybrid control unit, hpcm, vehicle control module, hybrid vehicle control unit

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