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Agreed. Its worth noting that the Prius will effectively use this "B" mode once the battery is nearly full whether the driver has selected it or...
Ok, hadn't seen this part :) No, there is no resistive dump in the Prius as you might have in a wind or hydro system where generation exceeds...
That's not that crazy, is it? When the battery is full any additional regen energy is wasted pumping the ICE and/or with the friction brakes...
IMHO its semantics in as far as both views are basically correct. All of the energy stored into the vehicle as gravitational potential energy...
What you are hearing most likely is the inverter. Its basically like a high frequency switching power supply on steroids. These switching...
Hi Ben, if its true you just pulled the trigger on a PiP conrgats! I know it was a big choice to make. As others have stated, the article you...
I certainly wish you luck with that. Gels can last longer than AGM, but tend to be twice as finicky. Rob
I think you've got the right idea John. $/watt is not a very good way to estimate racking cost, particularly when comparing laminate/thin film and...
Agreed. TCO just seems a lot harder for the average buyer to estimate for plug-ins with the data currently available.
DTE will likely depend on the average mpgs of its recent driving history. Given how most rental/loaner cars are driven I'd guess its pretty low....
I understand the desire to compare, but still say its apples and oranges. If you don't need the functionality of the v, why would you accept the...
FWIW it hasn't struck me that way. Almost every concern he has expressed has been based on other people's negative comments in various threads....
That's cool if some folks have gotten this for free. Never heard of such a thing personally, never even been offered a test drive w/o the...
That's possible. It was certainly the case when they ran the test fleets of early Prius PHEV conversions a number of years back. The big problem...
I think that's the real crux of the problem. Consider the Volt. Depending on your driving pattern, you'll either get 37mpg or infinite mpg, or...
In theory yes, if you want to leave the car "running." At 16A it might only take an hour or so to recharge the stock PiP pack. You will take...
Basically there are two ways you can feed current into the HV system, lets see if I can keep it straight. The battery ECU tracks SOC by...
The Enginer approach has the major drawback of only being able to inject a limited (<~16A) of current into the high voltage system. They use the...
FYI here is the datasheet on the AGM used. https://s3.amazonaws.com/ecodirect_docs/MK/8A8DLTP-DEKA.pdf The battery is rated at 245Ah for c/20....
That would be the other big benefit of something like the Enginer porta-power solution to this same approach IMHO.
