The power split device is the heart of the Toyota Prius, the most famous hybrid vehicle. This is a clever gearbox that hooks the gasoline engine, generator and electric motor together. It allows the car to operate like a parallel hybrid: The electric motor can power the car by itself, the...
The power split device is the heart of the Toyota Prius, the most famous hybrid vehicle. This is a clever gearbox that hooks the gasoline engine, generator and electric motor together. It allows the car to operate like a parallel hybrid: The electric motor can power the car by itself, the...
In this tutorial, we learn how to operate dynamic radar cruise control in the 2010 Prius. This supplements the conventional cruise control with a vehicle to vehicle cruise control. The radar system sees the car ahead and is less effected by bad weather conditions. The driver can select short,...
by design, always feel different when you cram the accelerator to the floor. While a geared transmission typically bursts off the line, a CVT has a smoother (and slower) increase to maximum power. But CVT’s sluggishness goes too far. It may be a safety hazard when trying to merge onto ...
Gasoline and Battery Power Efficiency Fuel Cell Problems Why Use Fuel Cells? How Fuel Cells Work If you want to be technical about it, a fuel cell is an electrochemical energy conversion device. Discovered in the 1800s, a fuel cell converts the chemicals hydrogen and oxygen into water, and...
Vehicle: 2010 Prius Model: ---USA--- We and our friends have more than a dozen. They all get an engine and rear brakes at 190K. Then they get a hybrid battery at 220k. Most get an EGR cleaning and oftentimes if the oil burning was bad they need a catalytic converter. The ...
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 then, because rival battery-electric and hybrid technologies have a huge head start, fuel-cell cars may never catch on. Most of us will stick with internal combustion engines for the time being, though the announcement by large automakers that electric cars are the future is going to ...
DIY solar panel kits that are designed to contribute to powering the battery of an electric or plug-in hybrid car via the home's charging system are available. Similar aftermarket kits are offered and marketed as ways to help power RVs or trailers. They can also be used to collect and sto...
DIY solar panel kits that are designed to contribute to powering the battery of an electric or plug-in hybrid car via the home's charging system are available. Similar aftermarket kits are offered and marketed as ways to help power RVs or trailers. They can also be used to collect and sto...