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My Prius battery used for research

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Technical Discussion' started by Aaron Vitolins, Oct 17, 2016.

  1. Aaron Vitolins

    Aaron Vitolins Senior Member

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    I believe I've posted about this in past, but about a year and a half ago I pulled the fully functional (but low on capacity)hybrid battery out of my 2005 Toyota Prius that had 240,000 miles and sold it to Penn State university for battery research. I just found this quick video about their battery research program.


    I'm just really happy I got to contribute to this cool program and my Prius battery went to the greater good of battery research!
     
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    And you got some money out of it. IMHO, they've been talking high tech batteries for years using carbon nanotubes and graphene and whatever else sci-fi that they can dream of. The 4th gens just barely got lithium ions and they've been around for a long time now.

    Until they can sufficiently mass produce said batteries at low cost, most likely we won't see it until the end of our lifetimes.
     
    #2 CooCooCaChoo, Oct 18, 2016
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    I agree with you 100%. I know that better battery's are possible. The battery's that we all know and use have been around forever. I might live to see the day where we seen massive battery improvements, and boy am I excited!
     
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    Australian gen4's didnt even get lipos, still old nimh batteries of which seem to be getting worse as the years go by. no great loss g4 is a hideous looking thing anyway
     
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    I'm hoping the design of the Prius gets good by the time my 2nd gen dies and its time for a new one. The tech is great, the presentation no so much.
     
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    I decided to stick with the gen2s a bit longer myself as I like the mfd interface and gadgets, user goodies plus they are tried and true! good n faithful, a noble steed
     
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