The GT mods may bode well for eventual improved EV-only PRIUS+ performance, if we can emulate some or all of what they have done to the THS. Also, by learning...
Ron I have uploaded to the files section here the two official Toyota press releases relating to the Prius GT. The second one also mentions the D-4D "clean...
Thanks, jl! I'm going to post that comment and a couple of other relevant comments below. Thanks to everyone who made the comments to the EVWorld group. ...
... ["yes" answer and topic discussion below this discussion] ... I will defend as appropriate any message directly relevant to the PRIUS+ project. This...
The following comments (preceded by my responses) were sent to Felix and myself. I'm filing them as anonymous input, as they are quite relevant and I have not ...
First, I have received and hooked up the CAN bus controller/monitor from EnergyCS. It is currently reading and displaying CAN bus messages on my Prius. The...
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040831/detu008_1.html Looks like this recent news story further clarifies what Cobasys has to offer and on what terms. Since they...
Thanks for the information, Dave. I found specs at http://www.cobasys.com/product_information/prodInfo_trans.htm, and will add these as possibilities to my...
Howdy, Not sure if it is appropriate to forward this to the entire group, but I have sent it to Ron G's email address twice and it has bounced both times....
... Great link I thought. It would be an idea if we could get someone from SCE on the project (if we don't have already). They had a couple hundred RAV4 EVs,...
(First the invitation, then the explanation...please feel free to forward this to Bay Area people as appropriate.) We could use some help Friday afternoon and...
We spent much of Saturday and Sunday building the mechanical structures and connectors for the battery pack. We improvised and improved things along the...
Sorry...here are the corrct URLs are in the message below (wouldn't you know I'd mis-spell prius, and Les's last name) We spent much of Saturday and Sunday...
Per Ron's suggestion last week, I added max. charge and discharge loggings to my program. I did not really "push" the limits, but did some EV auto cancel...
You guys look like you're having fun! ... Anyway... I hate to be constantly questioning things, but those buss bars look a little thin, I expected solid copper...
We're getting the remainder of the components we need, and hope to be able to conduct a "smoke test" on Friday (plug it all in and see what happens). We could...
Everything takes a long time. We're about done with the battery box, mountings for fans, fuses, plugs, etc., and protective/switching circuitry. If we get a...
At 10:42 AM 9/20/2004 Monday, Ron Gremban wrote: I have email/posting problems, so I have asked Felix to post this message for me. Hi, everyone! We've been...
I'd like to know more about the "CA Air Resources Board Hearing", it sounds like it might be a chance to meet some bay area members of the group. Jeff...
Information about this hearing was in Sept 10 message entitled: ... (In keeping with my efforts to keep this group on-topic as much as possible, I'd ask that...
I'm not completely lame, my first thought was to search the archives. I had done a search on "air resources" and nothing turned up. I just searched again,...
Well, we finished the build last night, and Ron and Doug Widney are checking through all the circuits. PRIUS+ is not going to LA: we ran out of time. But that...
http://www.toyota.com/vehicles/2005/prius/key_features/launch_faq.html (or get there from http://www.prius.com/ click on Prius in-depth then FAQ They've always...
That's curious, Shouldn't that be two seperate FAQ's? If the EV-Button is a standard feature in other countries it should and IS perfectly fine to use it here,...
I have to apologize for the lateness of this posting. I have been swamped with the preparation of a large SunLit Systems photovoltaic system proposal (just...
Charge imbalance was not a problem in my earlier experiences with EVs, but I now believe that was because they all had flooded lead-acid batteries that were...
Hi Ron, A while back, Peter Ohler was selling a batch of Power Cheq modules. Not sure if anyone bought them or not, but in case they haven't he may be willing...
Group members and all those who are looking in... http://homepage.mac.com/felixkramer/calcars/PhotoAlbum25.html PRIUS+ Team Builds + Connects Batteries (photos...
Felix: It looks like you are making progress. By the way I counted only 18 batteries giving 216 volts. Is this right? I thought the Prius had 288 volts??...
