I don't have a lot of familiarity with the Gen1's, but my understanding is that it's a larger and higher-voltage pack, because it doesn't have the SEPIC converter.
I reverse-engineered the Gen2 Battery control module with only a week's worth of work and was able to completely replace it in my Gen2's PHEV upgrade with an LFP pack. I'd guess it should be similarly easy on the Gen1, but it's a lot of work to put into such an old car at this point. I don't know what the Gen1's powertrain limits are. I've heard that insulation breakdown on the windings have killed a lot of them though. On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 12:27 PM Lee Hart <leeah...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Phil wrote: > > The older Prius hybrid powertrain makes > a poor EV, as you can only achieve a top speed of about 50mph/80kph before > the efficiency is super poor, and you are limited to about 20kW of EV power > by the boost-converter architecture. I'm really surprised anyone would be > interested in it today. > > Actually, I *am* interested, because I have a low-mileage gen-1 2001 Prius > that needs batteries. I like the car, and it has a 10-15 mile range as a > pure EV, and 50-60 mpg as an ICE. > > Replacements for the original nimh modules are unobtainium. Modules for > the later gen-2 Prius almost fit; but are longer and need serious > modifications to the cover to avoid shorting. > > A couple decades ago, I experimented with adding a booster pack with 12v > 13ah lead-acid batteries. It worked, but added too much weight and I wasn't > clever enough to fool Toyota's computers. > > Lee > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20240618/6bad9319/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
