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I hope you checked the 12v battery, because that was definitely a big contributor. The older a hybrid gets, it has more chance of having ‘high...
There are; in NZ they are found on eBay, imported using slow-mail from China, and are a little bit cheaper than genuine Toyota (which should be...
Does the CAT actually have $1000+ of platinum etc in it, or is it more that they are in demand to fit to the Gen1 Prius because they keep getting...
With the car cooled down (eg in the morning), switch it on. Remove the cap of the inverter coolant pump. Switch the car ‘on’. You will see...
Don’t take my advice for gospel, because I’m always doing crazy stuff. Sitting in the back seat of my 2008 Prius, charging a 2003 NWH11 battery 2...
I got 270% the ‘EPA’ equivalent, close to a Prius EPA, in an 8 valve 1.8 petrol turbo Nissan Bluebird; that required extreme hypermiling. Back...
@dolj - agreed! This is extreme hypermiling stuff (and more importantly, is very specific). On my old commute, I had a road where you would be...
I’m actually not sure! I think someone may have had part numbers? Can you post a photo? (If you haven’t already); it may be possible to desolder...
Also for what it is worth, I left a 12v battery in my 2003 Prius Gen 1 in a garage, parked up for over a year; I didn’t unplug the battery. It was...
I have a set of jump leads and a little 12v motorcycle battery in the boot for such eventualities; I agree it is way past it’s prime; it used to...
This is interesting! I have done a similar thing in my Prius; there is a ‘sweet spot’ of about 1300rpm when cruising on the motorway; also the...
Hello! It am in New Zealand; I got a few cells from a few batteries over the last 6 years; don’t give the car away, *but* if PriusChat members...
Also the hybrid battery is most important; if you can access cheap second-hand batteries and drive your car (and accept it can break down without...
The NEC / Renesas chips have a bit you can set that says ‘you can’t read this flash rom’ - someone said Yoshi (SuperMID) did this; I never tried...
I think the kilometres driven is the best measure of how much we saved the planet (or at least damaged it more slowly), or how much fuel we saved....
What brought this up was that I had thought about it a few years back, and had started writing a V850 simulator. I will revisit this at some...
It is true - but as an example, the Nissan 200SX has ECU ‘chipping’ by replacing the mask ROM - the advent of flash ‘ROM’ is recent enough that we...
Our ECUs are flashable, to allow fixes to be applied. The number of ECUs in our Gen 2 Priuses is reasonably substantial, and most of them are...
The main ‘gotcha’ is that the NWH11 Gen 1 uses 38 ‘slices’ of NiMH battery, the NWH20 uses 28. So you need to get hold of two NWH20 batteries to...
Thinking about this further; this failure mode is almost certain to happen with all electrified vehicles. Probably the only safe EV is the Nissan...
