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Pack lifetime, NiMH vs. Lithium?

Have the OEM lithium packs been around long enough to compare pack lifetime against the OEM NiMH ones? This would be the mean (or...

Forum: Gen 4 Prius Technical Discussion

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Rotate ICE by hand - no tools, hypothetically

Hypothetical question. When doing a piston soak people often rotate the engine a little every so many hours by using a ratchet on the...

Forum: Gen 2 Prius Care, Maintenance and Troubleshooting

pasadena_commut replied to the thread Shudder at initial acceleration.

Where are the spark plugs from? Amazon is full of counterfeits. Plugs from a dealer or RockAuto should be the real deal. This applies...

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It was $6.10 for 87 today at a Valero.

pasadena_commut replied to the thread How much is your local "Trump at the Pump Tax?".

Diplomatic agreements are never binding. They work well when the parties involved really intend to get along, and not at all when they...

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Some of that is due to gasoline taxes, which in the US are generally a flat rate per gallon but in some states may include sales tax...

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Only when his hands glow and a winged, horned entity floats in the air above him. Then I'm usually praying for him to stop doing that,...

pasadena_commut replied to the thread Are battery cells interchangeable?.

Isn't it the other way around? A prism is two copies of a polygon, located in different but parallel planes, with no rotation, with the...

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Um, a not-too-surprising, and quickly resolved, mismatch between stimulated demand and supply reestablishment while trying to accomplish...

pasadena_commut replied to the thread Are battery cells interchangeable?.

The battery modules have prismatic cells. These differ in substantial and important ways from cylindrical cells. Battery University |...

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