[ausev] Austin Energy PHEV conversions

[Dan_Lee Vogler]

I bought a Prius for a prototype and am almost finshed with a prototype
battery pack
for my PHEV Prius.    

see Photos of my PHEV Bat box , at these URL's    
( this is a 6 KW Box using Lithium-Ion cells as 18 x 12.8 VDC = ~230 VDC) 

http://wirehead.com/pics/batbox11.jpg 
http://wirehead.com/pics/batbox13.jpg 
http://wirehead.com/pics/batbox15.jpg 
http://wirehead.com/pics/batbox16.jpg 
http://wirehead.com/pics/batbox20.jpg 
http://wirehead.com/pics/batbox21.jpg 
http://wirehead.com/pics/batbox22.jpg 
http://wirehead.com/pics/batbox23.jpg 

Coming 2nd quarter 2007 

dan vogler

On 4/16/07, Aaron Choate <achoate at gmail.com> wrote:
> The conversions are being done by Hymotion, of Toronto, Canada and two of
> them were done 4 weeks ago.  A third may be converted in the future.  They
> want to wait a few months before announcing anything more broadly so that
> they have performance details to share when the questions inevitably will
> come up.  That will take a while since they fuel up so rarely.  <grin>

How cool... I'm sure we'd all love to check these things out.

* 35mph top speed (http://www.hymotion.com/pdf/Specs_PHEV_L5.pdf)
* 30 mile range (http://www.hymotion.com/pdf/Specs_PHEV_L5.pdf)
* $9,500 to upgrade a Prius  (http://www.hymotion.com/faq.htm)
* $22,175 MSRP for a Prius  (http://www.toyota.com/prius/)


It seems a little anti-climatic though.  In my opinion, an all
electric car still seems to win the price / performance equation.
(However, I will admit that the price / performance equation works out
differently for every person.)

If / when Toyota starts to sell PHEV's... We will finally start to see
how much the public really wants electric cars.

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