Hello all,
Just had my 05 converted on 22 Jan 09. I also suffer from the cold battery start up. I am working on replacing. first tank got 600 miles, 160 more then w/o hymotion.

The Green Car Company in Seattle/Bellevue Washington is doing an upgraded set of springs and shocks with the Hymotion. I would estimate that just about everyone who gets the Hymotion battery also gets the springs, shocks and Scangauge II. I think our technician told me only one person has declined them since we started.

The first set of springs we tried raised the rear section too high. Then we got it right and it now sits perfectly over the rear wheels. The Prius Hymotion drives really tight and light now. I drove mine without the upgraded springs/shocks for about 3,000 miles. Once I had them installed, it felt like a new car.

I am sure the manager will sell and ship the parts to you. You merely need to find a local garage to install them.

Contact Don or Susan at 425-820-4549

gkalkas, I did not use the stickers. I am looking for something that highlights the plug-in, without looking goofy at the same time.

I have also done the grill blocking for the winter. It is definitely helping my MPG numbers with Hymotion. It is easy to maintain 99.9 mpg now.

Finally after a month with the kit installed, I was able to put a full 30 minute trip on the MFD. Now I find that I don't know how to put a url in for my picture. If someone wants to hold my hand, I would appreciate it.

I have full grill blocking, ebh, ev switch on cruise stalk, auto door locks and scanguage II. Most of my trips are short - less than 10 miles. I am finding with the Hymotion that I can drive the highway rather than the back roads and still get adequate mileage. ie. above 100mpg.
My kit software includes tricklecharging of the 12 volt battery while recharging the Hymotion. It also includes the mandatory 1 minute warmup. Sigh! I have found that if I start out with the Hymotion turned off, I can start out in ev mode, then after a minute or so, turn the Hymotion on and if I am very careful, run the entire trip in ev mode below 34 mph. If the engine does start, then you have to wait out the warmup period before going back into ev mode.

Hi Guys,

Newbie here. Just want to state that i am having a Hymotion Conversion installed in my 2007 Prius V with 30K miles on the 29th of June, at Foreign Affairs Motors in West Palm Beach Florida.

Hal Burke
Semper Fi

After a couple thousand miles, I'm happy with my hymotion system...but has anyone managed to upgrade their software to the original configuration that allowed the engine to stay cold? I could drive a week at a time without ever heating the engine up (I'd want to fire it up at least once a week to keep the juices flowing). I'm considering the 159F hack/shunt but I'd rather do it right.

Also, has anyone else in Florida installed an EBH? I wouldn't consider it, but I have extra electricity from my rooftop PV system that I'd like to use to further reduce my gasoline consumption.

I had my 2006 converted last summer, so this is my first winter in Colorado with the Hymotion installed. MPG seems to have dropped by 15 MPG from warm weather driving. I'm sure a lot of that has to do with snow, worse evening commuting driving in the winter months and so on, but I'm curious if anyone else has found that the cold weather has effected their MPG. Right now I'm getting 60 MPG for a somewhat hilly commute which is far from the 100 I had hoped to get, but probably 15 better than without the Hymotion.