Joined: Jun 28, 2014 2,002 746 0 Location: Finland Vehicle: 2004 Prius HBS said: ↑ Great thread. Greatly appreciate all the posts and helpful comments. Is there a method or tool to test battery state of health on a battery out of the car? Just charge up the battery pack fully ...
How can I prevent getting locked out of my Prius due to a dead battery in the future? Consider keeping a spare key fob battery in your wallet or another safe place. Regularly check the health of your Prius’s main and auxiliary batteries and replace them before they fail. Some owners opt...
First to check is the MAF sensor. Be sure to clean the wires buried deep inside the top recess. A funky fuel pump can make the car seem possessed. The hybrid battery is NOT causing the engine no start problem. I am local to you and rebuild Prius batteries for a living. Feel free ...
In the case of the 2010 Toyota Prius, however, the voltage sent to the electric motor can be boosted up to 600 volts through a voltage converter [source: Webster]. Since the battery packs used by most hybrids produce around 100 to 300 volts of electricity, they are deemed "high-voltage"...
The powertrain of our 2005 Toyota Prius isn’t the only part of that vehicle that’s been showing its age. The key fob that I don’t even use that often developed a tear in the rubbery coating around its lock and unlock buttons years ago, and in recent years that covering had begun ...
Photo: Under the hood of this early Toyota Prius, you'll find both a 1.5-liter (42 kW) gasoline engine and a 30kW electric motor. The two are connected to the same sun and planet gear system, which, in turn, is connected to a drive unit and the front wheels. Picture by Warren Gre...
Even better, a PZEV Focus cost far less than a Toyota Prius or Honda Civic Hybrid, was much simpler and easier to maintain, and possessed noticeably more low-end torque that improved acceleration, especially with automatic transmission. It was quite a coup, yet went all but unnoticed amid Dea...
Hybrid Technology - How to test the HYBRID battery - I did this test on a 2007 GS450h. I borrowed a friend's laptop with Techstream software installed and tested the condition of the Hybrid battery. These steps should work for any Lexus or Toyota hybrid
Toyota has begun using lithium-ion batteries instead of heavier nickel-metal hydride batteries in its Prius model. The increase in demand for lithium will cause the demand curve for lithium to shift to the right – from D1 to D2 in the diagram below. This causes the ...
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