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I disagree - it sounds more like the valve gear before it gets fully lubricated. You can hear the knock come and go very much as it would when...
The normal Prius battery is 6.5AH with 168 cells giving about 1.3KWH. Five Amps for 4 Hours would drastically overcharge it and probably cause...
The ICE in the Gen III Prius never goes above 5250 RPM (5000 RPM for the gen II). This is not actually the red-line, I expect the engine can...
Not really. There is no intentional power loss in the inverter - the duty cycle of the PWM will be approximately the ratio of the voltage that is...
Don't forget that even if the switch does fail (or even break off!) the independent switch on the brake pedal will cancel the cruise control. kevin
Do you realize that your Prius already does that? kevin
Re: Play DVD with MP3 format That's good that they now support DVD media, but surely at 128kbits/sec a DVD would provide about 75 hours of...
At low speeds and high engine RPM MG1 actually produces power as generator rather than consuming it. It would be charging the battery or sending...
Because of the Atkinson cycle that is used (after induction about 1/3 of the inlet charge is pushed back out again) the compression ratio is...
Agreed, there may be a transient that drops below the 16A I mentioned. There are some hills go down and it is difficult to keep the...
Regeneration only uses the front wheels so if regeneration stops due to a bump in the road there is no braking until the friction brakes are...
The maximum battery current for the Gen III has been increased to 125A from 100A on the Gen II. This allows more aggressive regeneration. On...
The traction battery provides the power (via the inverter) when the engine is stopped so the 12V battery is not really required at all once the...
Most of the documentation I have seen rates MG1 @ 30KW with MG2 being 50KW. Since the battery output is rated at 20KW (Gen II) this is consistent...
Bob, MG1 only needs minimal power (enough to overcome losses maybe a few hundred watts) to provide the counter-torque if it is rotating at low...
Bob, Minor correction - it is 28% of the torque flows into MG1, 72% to the final drive. At various combinations of road speed and load MG1...
At 60MPH on a level road the Prius only runs at about 1500-1600 RPM. At 70 it runs at 1800-2000RPM. This is incredibly low for an engine with an...
oops :) kevin
Bob, Good explanation but you should substitute the word "torque" for "power" in this paragraph. 72% of the engine torque always goes to the...
The values should be in Fluid ounces (fl oz) - this is the volume occupied by one oz of water (approximately). However the US fluid oz weighs...
