550 mile drive in 120f weather with Battery pack @ 50% life

Who cares you're going anyways it'll run on the ice engine all the way there and back at 36 to 39 mi to the gallon if the battery can't do anything but apparently it's doing something more importantly what's your gas mileage at right now in the hot weather in California and what have you well there you go If it's acceptable then off you go I mean what the heck what are your other options if somebody told you no? Exactly doesn't seem like anything is wrong there I didn't remember your mileage but apparently you have some idea what you're doing You're changing out temperature sensors with resistors and what have you and all of that so you do some electrical work a little bit so there's always that I'm pretty sure that you know as well as I do your car will probably go out there and come back home unless there's underlying other things going on front wheel bearings about the fall out or anything like that those are more probably likely to not have you coming back in one piece then the 50% life battery pack I mean generally a hybrid battery lasts around 8 to 10 years so it 8 years in I would think it would be 20 or 30% not 50 even though you've played with cells a few times and or modules a few times and what have you and sensors so either you done real good or your battery's just holding up reasonably well because your original battery that you started messing with I imagine is original or rebuilt or not new? And you're sitting at around 50% sounds to me like there's not a problem I'm assuming this is a California car that the air conditioner works ineffably on and you're going to travel all the way there with the air on and the wind is up enjoying that low coefficient of drag and all that kind of nonsense correct? So that should help keep your battery reasonably good and cool or cooler if you're not a pet owner and you don't ride a pet in your car regularly then you may not need to look at the fan but if you do any of the above or camp in your Prius or whatever goes on You may just want to have a quick peek in your fan or see that when you call it up with software that it's actually sucking and blowing out the where it's supposed to go You can check that right at the battery because there's a big square cut out of the ductwork that's right over the battery You can just put your hand there and feel the air someday maybe you'll close that big hole up with some zip tape have it all blow out of the car through the duct work and the plate provided not blow on top of the battery I'm sure that's there for cold weather or some kind of nonsense.

 

i would take some new modules and tools along for the ride, no one can predict battery life

 

rent a new prius or tesla, they're an awful lot of fun

 

I would be concerned that the A/C might not be able to keep up with ~115F ambient, plus the "rolling metal oven" bonus, and the extra heat in the cabin might push an iffy battery over the edge. So bringing extra modules does seem prudent. Also, a lot of drinking water. A person can get dehydrated really fast sitting on the side of the highway at those temperatures. We can't know the weather for next weekend yet, but the trend through Tuesday is down to a more modest 105F.

Can you go at night, or at least late in the day? Much easier on the car if the outside air is only in the 80's. Or you can wait a hypothetical 4 more years and take the fast rail. OK, not really an option now, but it may be nice if it ever actually gets done.

At least you're starting from San Bernardino. It would be at least an hour more for me, potentially much more than that depending on the traffic.

 

I think mine would do okay but I would hate to live in 115 standing temperature anywhere I'll be considering moving personally but anyway it gets to 103 104 here a bit and of course more with the heat index which has nothing to do with the car I generally won't stand for my air conditioning being out and the only way that's going to happen usually in this model is the evaporator goes out The rest of it I can fix on the fly practically while the car is moving but not the evaporator.