I specified the heating pads and somewhat thermally-insulated PHEV battery box; Tom designed it. With CalCars' older PRIUS+ configuration where the PbA battery...
Ron Gremban
rgremban@...
Feb 1, 2007 9:01 am
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I had sent this to Ron and he asked me to post this to the eaa-phev list. I got into a fairly serious car accident 2 weeks ago (don't worry, I wasn't driving...
Chris Ewert
chris@...
Feb 2, 2007 7:01 pm
615
I received this message to my yahoo account, as the moderator and sole member of the eaa-phev maillist archives there. I believe this was in response to one or...
Ryan Fulcher
eaa-phev@...
Feb 7, 2007 8:25 am
616
I live in Michigan. I have been hesitant to consider a conversion as my 2004 Prius which has 70,000 for two reasons: 1. It's still under full warranty and...
Jeff Adams
jeffa@...
Feb 7, 2007 3:49 pm
617
Living in Texas, I have a 2001 with about 70,000 miles on it still getting an average of 40-42MPG - That's a drop from the 45MPG I was getting until they added...
Morris, Danny (DMAT S...
eaa-phev@...
Feb 7, 2007 3:58 pm
618
Jeff, I suspect your mileage difference with your wife is either due to tires or your driving habits, since your car has 70K on it I'm sure you have replaced...
David W. Kennington
dkennington@...
Feb 7, 2007 4:07 pm
619
It's not the NIMH batteries that are causing your reduced mileage. They really aren't affected by cold that much. There's just a lot more friction in cold...
Gregory D. Wight
Wight@...
Feb 7, 2007 4:09 pm
620
That is correct. I like your troubleshooting skills! I specifically asked for and purchased "sticky" tires in September for better winter traction....
Jeff Adams
jeffa@...
Feb 7, 2007 4:11 pm
621
I suspect it's a bit of "all of the above" that's combining to reduce mpg, rather than just one factor. The sticky snow tires, thickening lubrication, heater...
Ron Gompertz
ron@...
Feb 7, 2007 4:56 pm
622
... Yes indeed. The PHEV-15 kit uses the same chassis mounts, braketing method, metal thickness and enclosure ribbing as the original battery. Please see the...
Davide Andrea
eaa-phev@...
Feb 7, 2007 11:50 pm
623
... I'm leery of it for the same reasons -- especially since it isn't a cheap battery to replace. I might be totally off the wall here, but what about using a...
Chris Ewert
chris@...
Feb 8, 2007 12:04 am
624
Hi Davide, I'm looking forward to meeting you on my next trip down to Boulder. I've had informative conversations with Carl and Dennis by phone this past month...
Ron Gompertz
ron@...
Feb 8, 2007 2:48 am
625
In Chicago the temp isn't much warmer than MI, but the mercury did rise to about 13 F today. During mid-Nov to mid-March last year my Prius mileage avg. was...
T Dore
electricblue0303@...
Feb 8, 2007 5:01 am
626
As opposed to an earlier post that says NiMH performance is not diminished too much at low temps, I have found that the Battery ECU's Discharge Current Limit...
Ron Gremban
rgremban@...
Feb 8, 2007 6:38 am
627
... This morning my battery started at 3F with a DCL and CCL of 23 amps. At the end of my short 5 min drive it was 10F and a DCL/CCL of 26 amps. I literally...
Chris Ewert
chris@...
Feb 8, 2007 2:57 pm
628
I analyzed the sequence in the System Relays in the Prius: http://www.eaa-phev.org/wiki/Prius_PHEV_TechInfo#System_Relays Does anyone know why the precharge...
Davide Andrea
eaa-phev@...
Feb 15, 2007 5:15 pm
629
I suspect for the hybrid drive ecu to communicate with the inverter to establish there are no catastrophic shorts before applying high voltage to the inverter....
Steve Woodruff
eaa-phev@...
Feb 15, 2007 5:35 pm
630
Isn't that how all "precharge" systems work, to pre-charge the large drive system inverters components "slowly" via a large resistor? You engage the precharge...
Ryan Fulcher
eaa-phev@...
Feb 15, 2007 7:33 pm
631
I ran my EV without a precharge resistor briefly, the main contactor arced terribly. I know the Solectria system works the same way, a small relay engauges the...
David W. Kennington
dkennington@...
Feb 15, 2007 7:41 pm
632
... Clarification: Actually, I do know how a precharge works. The question was not about precharge. It was about why be relay comes on just by itself *before* ...
Davide Andrea
eaa-phev@...
Feb 15, 2007 8:00 pm
633
Thanks Ryan. I'd like to write Toyota and tell them they are not listening to their customers. MPG is king when if comes to selecting a car these days and...
Darren
darren@...
Feb 22, 2007 11:03 pm
634
Well, I just got the latest Winter 2007 installment of Toyota's "Hybrid Synergy View Newsletter - For Hybrid Owners and Enthusiasts" The very last story is the...
Ryan Fulcher
rjf@...
Feb 23, 2007 9:13 am
635
Any idea why that article is post dated "MARCH 5, 2007" ? The problem is that there really is no "Battery Problem", they proved 10 years back that the RAV4 EV...
Ryan Fulcher
eaa-phev@...
Feb 26, 2007 8:25 pm
636
I waited 30 years for an OEM to make me an EV/PHEV, I'm still waiting. I think we have to procede as if they aren't going to and hope that they do. Ryan...
David W. Kennington
dkennington@...
Feb 27, 2007 1:33 pm
637
Rumors of EV/PHEV? According to both of my contacts at the two local Toyota dealers in town, the 2008 Prius will have the option of plug-in just like it has...
Jeff Adams
jeffa@...
Feb 27, 2007 2:21 pm
638
After reading the book "Plug-in Hybrids" I called the 800 number listed for Toyota (800-331-4331). I asked when a plug-in Prius will be available and if there...
Joe Magnusson
JoeMagnusson@...
Feb 27, 2007 3:25 pm
639
While doing some research on plug-in Prius' and speaking with a professor at a local college, I was asked "So how many Priuses have been converted to plug-in...
Shawn Waggoner, FLEAA
eaa-phev@...
Mar 4, 2007 1:54 am
640
21 so far. Check them out at http://www.eaa-phev.org/wiki/Prius_PHEV#Prius_Conversions_Chronology. /ron ... -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Ron...
Ron Gremban
rgremban@...
Mar 4, 2007 7:14 am
641
CalCars tracked the number of conversions until the end of November 2006. There were 21, I believe. I don't know of anyone tracking any since then, although...
T Dore
electricblue0303@...
Mar 4, 2007 3:48 pm
642
Thanks for the links. It looks like there are somewhere between 25-30 on the road now, between the ones listed on CalCars and EAA-PHEV websites and the ones...
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