The Prius actually works the opposite to what you have described to provide high-efficiency. The throttle is not used very much to control...
How do you know the A/C has come on? On the genII Prius the indicator only means that the system can use the cooling if required, it does not...
You have to put your foot firmly on the brake and depress the throttle completely to do a force charge. kevin
Agreed - but what happens under the situation where the ICE is not rotating but the car is at < 41 mph and then the car increases in speed to...
Bob, Actually I would disagree in that the Prius can do a "bump start" if the car is already moving and it wishes to start the engine. If the car...
"Even though the motor RPMs are dropping, you're sending power to it." That's not true. To slow down MG1 requires extracting power from it not...
Actually if the Prius is already moving energy will be put into the traction battery/MG2 rather than removed. When the car is moving MG1 will be...
Not quite all the lowdown - after the battery is full the system will go into "Automatic B mode" to reserve the friction brakes even without...
You are incorrect on many of your points: 1) There is not a LOT more energy that could be reclaimed - there is some. As you stated you only...
I think he is subtracting the price difference between the conventional and hybrid car ($4000). However he is not taking into account the...
You are assuming that the resale value is the same. I just looked at Kelly Blue book for the value of a 2007 (they didn't have a 2005 hybrid...
Because of the Atkinson cycle the Prius uses, the effective compression is about 9.0:1 (about 1/3 of the mixture is blown out of the cylinder...
The Gen 2 does the same thing - it may not be as aggressive as the Gen 3 in the use of engine braking. kevin
There is one high power DC-DC converter connecting the battery to the system bus. It can only step up voltage from the battery or step down...
Not quite correct. The A/C inverter runs directly off the battery which may vary in voltage from about 180-250V (the 201.6 is the nominal)....
Actually it was Consumer Reports "Best Bang for the Buck" for family cars in the April 2009 issue - even comparing it to non-hybrids. Their 5...
I'm still not sure of the question. One important fact with hydrostatics is that a fluid will exert the same pressure everywhere (ignoring...
I think there may be some confusion in terminology; When we say water is incompressible we mean that when placed under pressure it does not...
That isn't because the water compresses - you're compressing the small bubbles of air that are trapped in the pores of the match head that...
I have occasionally had the brakes grab and it seems to be related to the car being left overnight after it has been raining. I suspect that a...
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