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Sounds about right. With this kit the PIS/PIP should have about 8-9kWh total capacity and about 6kWh useable. Volt has 16kWh and about 10kWh...
In general you are correct. The Prius is usually smarter than the driver at this point ;) Where this is not true is when you know things that...
No problem. I hope you don't take my comments as being critical. As I said I'm very impressed with what you put together. Its a very creative...
The other piece of the puzzle is the efficiency of the electric motor/inverter which is shown on the bottom of page 65 of this ORNL report:...
I agree with the conclusion, but would like to propose a slightly different explanation. To start with, route optimization and driving style is...
I think that's important to remember, and sometimes lost in the trees of EV range etc. In general you always want to use up the battery as much as...
FWIW this would more or less defeat the purpose of a plug-in hybrid. The whole point is that charging the battery off the grid (generally) uses...
I don't know for sure, but I believe most will do $0 upfront at the same residual / money factor. I assume they advertise them this way to make...
Sounds great, just bear in mind that the incentives are regional and vary substantially. Generally the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions seem to...
That's only been debunked since about a month after it was trotted out by the oil companies ~5-6 yrs ago. Mining sucks for the environment. No...
LOL :) Thats pretty much where the credibility went out the window ;)
PiP sounds like a pretty good choice based on your needs/desires. Geek factor of plugin is hard to beat. Mild climate + short commute should do...
My initial calculations were based on incomplete info, and a mistaken reading of your initial report as a battery current of 360A rather than...
Ok, I get that. And I can see where most of the advanced apps involve being able to talk to the car when you are not in it. It doesn't seem like...
Is there any reason the non-advanced can't do this (other than the missing apps?) Is the hardware different, or is it just the internet...
You are quite right, that's where I was getting confused. I saw 360A not 360Ah. If thats measured out of the 12V battery, then the 75% is the...
Its certainly doable, but I'm not sure it would have any advantage over the existing Enginer kit. The dc:dc converter does two main things....
Agreed, the load matters a lot. The point I think I was trying to make is that for any rpm above the "knee" the back EMF limits the max electric...
Yeah, it seems like a pretty cool site. Nice that its free, and that people have figured out ways to support a wide variety of devices on it....
BTW best support I've found for using this device with pvoutput seems to be at: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum/143 pvoutput.org is an...
