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 ...
First, some background. The hybrid battery consists of many blocks connected in series. If one block goes bad, the entire battery becomes non-functional. While your vehicle is running, the min and max voltage of each block is being monitored. If the difference between the lowest voltage of ...
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 ...
The two most prolific hybrid manufacturers on the market, Toyota and Honda, each have battery packs with around 100 to 200 volts. 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: ...
Electric cars broadly come in two main varieties: battery electric (sometimes called BEV, or battery electric vehicles), with just an electric motor for power; or hybrid, with both an electric motor and a conventional gasoline engine. This article is mostly about battery electric cars, though ...
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...
This is because the company will launch in 2019 a "mild" hybrid electric vehicles, this is also known in the industry as 48V hybrid electric platform. This is a stepping stone between traditional internal combustion engine companies and "strong" hybrid electric vehicles such as...
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to some extent, and both times the next president (Reagan and Bush) removed the regulations upon taking office (ironically, the Clinton mandate for more hybrid cars accomplished nothing in the US, but it scared the shit out of Toyota, who began furiously innovating and created the Prius). An...