How old was it & how many miles did your Prius have,when your HV battery failed?

can't get enough of these battery threads myself. wouldn't it be great if we could build a chart with all known battery failure parameters and make it a sticky? or maybe right on the cover of priuschat, the first thing you see when you come here. that would sell some cars!

 

The one in our 2006 Prius was replaced at 5 years and 86,000 miles. That tidbit was confirmed by both the CarFax and the dealer who performed the work. We've only owned the car a few weeks so I can't supply any more details regarding the replacement..

 

How will you find this information useful if you do not know anything about the HV batteries that are running fine ?

 

5 years and 86k? that was a bad'un.

 

^^ You have not answered my question, but I did come across a somewhat related datum yesterday:

Toyota has recycled about 20,000 HV batteries to date. That is truly impressive when you remember that somewhere in the vicinity of 1% of cars are taken off the road each year due to accident, and Toyota has sold over 5,000,000 Prius.

 

that is great info.

 

Overall that's a very small number of battery replacements. One of the reasons we're confident it will be long time before the car needs another battery replacement, if ever.