Vehicle: 2004 Prius Model: N/A Hi Guys, I'm working on reconditioning my Gen 1 HV battery and I can't get the last 5 silver bolts off so that I can get to the cells, any help or advice to get them out would be greatly appreciated! #21 H W Rosenmayer, Dec 24, 2021 Eddi...
Vehicle: 2017 Prius Prime Model: Prime Advanced Glenn G said: ↑ 2. Use the charge mode on highway to charge the battery. At my locus the break even v.s. ICE is ~$3.00 / gallon. From a $$$ perspective, it might make sense, but from and efficiency perspective, probably not....
In a series hybrid, the gasoline engine turns a generator, and the generator can either charge the batteries or power an electric motor that drives the transmission. Thus, the gasoline engine never directly powers the vehicle. Hybrid Car Performance The key to a hybrid car is that the gasoli...
however, we mainly use the term to describe cars that combine a gas-fueledinternal combustion enginewith a battery-driven electric motor. Until the early 1990s such hybrid electric vehicles (or HEVs) were relatively rare, but the success of theToyota Priusraised public awareness of these gas...
Do I have to remove the whole battery, buy a hobby charger-discharge and charge the modeles to try to see how much capacity I can reclaim, then balance the whole pack, and put it back in series? or can I just identify which modules are the worst off, take out the bad ones, swap...
Actual kWh of battery charge from "normal"* hybrid battery SOC to full charge: ~5.5kWh Wall outlet readout of kWh of battery charge from "normal"* hybrid battery SOC to full charge: ~6.3kWh *Normal being 6 bars out of 8 for Gen 1/2/3 Prius drivers or about 3/4 of the hybrid ...
to do with the HV battery bus bars and nuts that sort of thing just hard to say but that's where you're at I just bought a car just like yours from Florida here in North Carolina where I live for $700 It looks about the same as your daughter's car and that seems to be pretty...
Joined: Jun 12, 2018 77 20 0 Location: Irvine Vehicle: 2010 Prius Model: Two TMR-JWAP said: ↑ If you want to charge a module until it swells (and there are degrees of swelling, obviously) and then build a battery with it, feel free. In my opinion, having built one or two,...
Vehicle: 2018 Prius Prime Model: Prime Plus Keeping the battery cool probably provides the most benefit of anything you can do. You can do that by parking in the shade, using the charge timer to charge overnight when it's cool, and avoiding hard acceleration and long regen braking braki...
Vehicle: 2024 Prius Prime Model: SE My guess would be about 70\75% as the longest charge i ever did added something like 6.3Kwh to that 8.8Kwh battery.. #7 DOHCtor, Dec 14, 2021 luckie likes this. Tideland Prius Moderator of the North Staff Member Joined: Oct 2, 2004 45...