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Below is the latest version in text format. It's also available as a neat 3-page 50K PDF document from links at http://www.priusplus.org No new sections in...
D-cell testing has been an eye-opener. Wayne at http://www.AmondoTech.com has graciously lent me a battery tester and supplied an NiMH charger. This tester...
... How about a simple C clamp, with rubber boots? Just wedge your wires between the cell and insolated clamp ends. As long as it's just for testing, it should...
Was: Re: Lessons from D-cell testing ... These are way cool. It can be fun to think of applications for them. However, the 33 lb pack you speak of would...
Hello Ron It was interesting to see your results listed in order of disappointment. My experience is that my cells never seem to achieve their rated capacity....
... I wonder if nano-caps would hold their voltage longer (overnight)? Yes, Ideally PHEV-x00 and BEV's would want cells about 50 times larger, 30Ah and...
Ryan: The battery sounds interesting but I don't really believe anything in batteries until a product evolves and high voltage packs are demonstrated. this...
Tech Group Members Things have been very busy, as you have seen if you've you've subscribed to Calcars-News (URL below). * Ron Gremban, the original PRIUS+ and...
Thanks to Ron and Felix for giving the presentation on Prius+ at the EAA Silicon Valley meeting. I attended with my dad, Mike Chan, but I was rude and didn't...
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Updated results for the Harding HS-D9000 and Titanium D11000 cells are shown in BatteryInfo/NiMHCellTests_050418.pdf in the files section. Note that the...
As noted in my last posting, there are at least two possible battery packs that could benefit from parallel supercapacitors, and whose price might allow for...
I could provide you two papers by our organization, EVermont, discussing our work with Supercaps and batteries in parallel in a Solectria Force. Apparently too...
... Hi Ron, I'm glad you make so much needed progress! I already have monitoring electronics designed, tested and actually built. You can see what is done...
I'd be willing to do that. I've been following Maxwell's progress for a long time and would like to look into this. I'll need to know a little more precisely...
Dear Sir, We are a start-up company with a new, patented and cheaper process for commercial production of Supercapacitors. We are currently producing in the...
EVermont Supercap Papers, use this link: http://www2.norwich.edu/wight/evermont/evermont.html Greg ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Hi Ryan, This is not our Cal Cars group, although Ron Gremban does have some Energy CS CAN bus equipment in his prototype Prius PLUS. Cal Cars is a non-profit...
... Energy CS CAN bus equipment in his prototype Prius PLUS. ... for-profit enterprises. So far, the Prius PLUS has used lead acid batteries and will soon use...
Outside of D cells, we have found only one NiMH product that looks good for the PRIUS+: Saft's NHP10-340 -- a 12V, 34 Ah, 6.7 milliohm (1.8% V sag/C), 8.7 kg...
1. The state of CalCars’ NiMH battery pack 1.1. Procurement status 1.1.1. With the exception of the Saft NHP10-340, which is not in volume production, and...
In general, I have refrained from posting messages here that are also posted at CalCars-News. But because this contains significant new information from EDrive...
... I'm glad to hear you're comming arround! Deep down you knew all along, didn't you? ... Here's hoping Toyota has seen the light at the end of the tunnel and...
Thanks Ron for that very complete report. It was comprehensible even to very untechnical me. Sounds like all the lawsuits, etc pushed the market right past...
... Per my recent posts in the yahoo/EVWorld.com group, another factor that has emerged even more clearly has been the worldwide licensing policies of ECD with...
PS, in response to your request for feedback to the post-script: I would be very very enthusiastic about a Ford Escape+ PHEV. Four good things would be: 1. a...
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