Although its not a common problem, very cold weather can drain the batteries of a Toyota Prius and the only way to make it run again is to jump-start it.
All you need is a pair of jump start cables and another functional car or an auxiliary starting unit (you know, that huge battery used in services to start a dead car) if you happen to have one. Here’s how to do it:
Open the vehicle’s hood and locate the fuse box. It should be at the far right as you are looking at the engine bay
Remove the fuse box plastic cover to expose the fuses
Locate the red cap with the plus sign and take it off to reveal the metal terminal
Connect the positive (red) cable to the metal terminal in the fuse box and the negative (black) one to a mass bolt on the car’s body/engine bay
Connect the other ends to the functional car’s battery - red to positive and black to negative
Start the functional car and keep it a bit like that
Go in the Prius and star it
Let it idle a bit before turning it off, or go put some miles on it.
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