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Knowing Steve we'll probably be seeing a range extender built out of the front end of a Prius sometime soon :) Congrats on the Leaf!
Easy there Tex. There is really no proven recipe for an affordable DIY lithium conversion. Those that want one now figure it out by investing...
As others have mentioned 130mpg doesn't really mean anything on a plugin car. Give it enough battery and you can get infinite mpg. I'm also not...
I'm sure PIS had a reason for selecting the cells they did in the 4kW kit (not easy to find ~20Ah cells that can tolerate 100+ A regen), but I'd...
Interesting note, using the calculator here: EV Calculator in a Prius it takes 19.3 hp to sustain 60mph, but 36.2 hp to sustain 80mph. That's 88%...
While it would be great if everyone would drive more efficiently, driving the doors off a Prius is still doing more to save gas than driving like...
No data yet on the C, but here's how the big Prius stacks up in 5 year TCO on consumer reports. Note that the Prius is an IV, and still does well...
MPG Mosh Pit! Now there's an advertising campaign Toyota should jump on :D
Not bad. Don't know where they are getting their rebate info though. AZ is $1000 state tax credit capped, federal is 30% (~$5100), utility...
Agreed, absolute accuracy is very tricky in these sorts of calculations, particularly with this simple a model. However the relative performance...
FWD if your cells are not very well matched could you perhaps bottom balance them instead? Discharge them all down to the same voltage, then...
Lead acid would not have been that big a deal. A hybrid only needs 0.5-1kWh to do a decent job. The batteries used in the original EV1 were 39.8...
And just for kicks.... A Toyota 1.8L HSD in a 2003 Honda Insight, assuming 300 lbs weight increase: 60mph: 65mpg 80 mph: 48mpg HP/lbs of a Civic...
Ok, so we can't build a non-HSD Prius very easily, but we can model one. Time for some fun with math. ;) Here is my basic method, please feel...
I'm not sure there is any point arguing with someone who is not listening. I just did a 350 mile weekend trip from Phoenix to Tucson with a...
Note though that as mentioned above the daily drive numbers represent multiple trips per day of varying lengths. Hence the importance of the the...
I would have to agree. In studying statistical data like this its easy to make simplifying assumptions about what people "should" do, or what...
I also want to acknowledge that commuters are just one part of the puzzle. They just happen to be a convenient population to study as their...
If batteries were free, or negligible in cost then absolutely it would make sense to make PHEVs and BEVs with as great a range as technologically...
