No current Technology for Hybrid Battery Preventative Maintenance?

The best thing is to keep the hv battery screen and blower wheel clean.

 

are you talking about grid charging? prolong conditioning?

 

Well if you are asking for "opinion's?" I'm gonna call, BS on those guy's! This is the answer to your question.

Prolong Value Reconditioning Package | Hybrid Automotive

Our local Hybrid Shop, charges what I feel is a silly price for installing the harness and doing the work. To use the "Prolong System," but they do know it is out there.

 

$500 for pseudo science

 

LOL well no not exactly in our case. Our local Hybrid Shop told my wife it was $ 425 for "Battery Maintenance?" And near as I could tell, that meant they would install the "Prolong Charger," harness and do the recharge/discharge thing?

The process strikes me as a good idea? But at that price, I'll buy the gear and do it, myself.

Now if it works or not I can't say? But I have spent way more than that, on motors over the year's and sometimes it has not worked out to well.

 

They are telling you the honest truth.

Current batteries all work from a chemical process. The chemicals gradually "wear out" and can not be retrieved with any external process.
They just can't.

The "hobby" rejuvenations are time consuming, expensive and short lived.
It is like putting a bandaid on skin cancer.

 

This is shop vs diy maintenance on the hv battery. The diy maintenance that I see goes on for days, imagine the total amount the shop will charge you manipulated by the hour for labor itself.

 

if no one can recommend a shop, i would call around and ask mech's if they will install the leads for you. the reconditioning process is the easy part.

also, contact jeff at hybrid automotive. he may have a contact in the area, idk.

 

And if he REALLY wants to throw his money away, I have some ocean front property for sale in Arizona.

 

same to you!

 

arizona is land locked

 

Easy, just stop the passage of time!

I don't see much sense in this. The prolong grid chargers might genuinely give you some extra time, but of course it helps to start early- and this battery has already gone 10 years so no early start. It's like jumping out of a plane- the fall will take somewhat longer if you use a parachute, but you are still going to hit the ground. Also, the delay before that hit is maximized if you start using the parachute at the earliest opportunity.

You've made it most of the way down before even thinking of talking to the parachute salesman. I say save your money.

So from my point of view, you're talking about spending hundreds of dollars just to re-schedule your next battery replacement a year or two later, and to me that's only worth it if you're planning to ditch the car sometime in that date range. Better to keep the savings in your pocket and enjoy a fresh new battery when that day comes.

 

These video might help.