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Prius PHEV
To this date there have been a number of successful Prius PHEV<ref>Maillist & http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gridable-hybrids</ref> conversions beginning with Ron of CalCars<ref>http://www.CalCars.org & http://groups.yahoo.com/group/calcars-news</ref> Original<ref>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/priusplus</ref> and current PriusPlus. Other small startups include the PiPrius<ref>http://www.PiPrius.com & http://www.manzanitamicro.com</ref> (WA) and Hybrids-Plus<ref>http://hybrids-plus.com & http://energysense.com</ref> (CO) projects. EDrive/EnergyCS<ref>http://www.edrivesystems.com</ref> (CA) will offer consumer conversion soon, and has produced the most evaluation Prius PHEVs to this point. Canadian Hymotion<ref>http://www.hymotion.com</ref> (Toronto, ON) is offering conversion kits to fleets and eventually consumers. The tenth conversion of PriusBlue was undertaken in public at the Inaugural Maker Faire to help enhance the documentation and help promote PHEVs in the pacific northwest and midwest. Recently CalCars has begun working to perfect various #Hybrid-Pack Method techniques to remedy the CCL Conundrum.
At this time there are two common conversion methods for the Prius. The #Original CalCars Method used in Rons PriusPlus History, EDrive, and Hybrids-Plus conversions replace the stock battery with a new simple string. The second #Hybrid-Pack Method is used in the new PriusPlus, PiPrius, and believed to be used by the Hymotion conversions. This second method should be easily adapted from the '04+ Prius to the Classic '00-'03 Prius, Escape, and other Hybrids as they use a hybrid battery pack configuration which uses both a new simple string and the original stock batteries. Both types, of course, use a Battery Chargers to recharge from the grid. Toyota has stated that such a conversions will adversely affect your Warranty.
The Prius PHEV TechInfo page has a lot of technical information on the Prius which may be useful when designing a PHEV conversion. See the Terms page is you aren't familiar with some of the acronyms used through the documentation. Also be aware of the Disclaimer should you be considering a conversion yourself. This PriusDisMan.pdf <ref>Media:Priusdisman.pdf from http://www.airlabcorp.com/Prius/priusdisman.pdf</ref> might be handy for its dismantle and safety warnings
Prius Conversions Chronology
For a more detailed chronology of Prius (and other vehicle) conversions completed since CalCars' first one in November 2004, including pictures, locations and contact information of the owners, see where-phevs-are at CalCars.org.
Add A Vehicle
Chris Ewert has generously volunteered to collect and organize these lists. Please send him information in the format listed below. Send corrections and updates to chris [at] infolaunch.com (Chris Ewert).
- OWNER/SPONSOR Name and URL by CONVERTER
- MONTH/YEAR
- CITY/COUNTY/STATE
- Contact email address *
- *(if the contact wants an anti-spam email address like info [at] name.com, please indicate that, or if the contact wants to be unlisted but is still willing to provide that info to CalCars (you won't regret it), please send it with that notation.
Please also feel free to edit this page right now with additions or corrections and we'll be sure to forward those changes on the Chris and CalCars.
Current Vehicles
per http://www.calcars.org/where-phevs-are.html
- Fall 2004 - CalCars PRIUS+/Ron Gremban by Ron Gremban, EnergyCS and CalCars team
- Mar. 2005 - EnergyCS by Greg Hanssen, Pete Nortman and team
- May 2005 - Energy CS/Clean-Tech by EnergyCS
- Sept. 2005 - Amberjac Projects Ltd UK, by EnergyCS/Amberjac
- Feb. 2006 - Hymotion by Hymotion
- Mar. 2006 - Electro Energy by CalCars and Electro Energy
- Mar. 2006 - South Coast Air Quality Management District by EnergyCS
- Apr. 2006 - CalCars/Felix Kramer by EnergyCS
- Apr. 2006 - Sacramento Municipal Utility District by EnergyCS
- Apr. 22-24 - Ryan Fulcher of the Seattle EVA by CalCars and the Maker Faire team
- May 2006 - City of Santa Monica by EnergyCS, (Los Angeles County, contact rick.sikes [at] smgov.net)
- July 2006 - Pacific Gas & Electric/Bay Area Air Quality Management District by EnergyCS, (San Francisco County, contact sxtg [at] pge.com
- Aug. 2006 - Hourcar by Hymotion, (Twin Cities, MN, contact info@hourcar.org)
- Aug. 2006 - Southern California Edison by EnergyCS, (Los Angeles County)
- Aug. 2006 - South Coast Air Quality Management District #2, by EnergyCS (Los Angeles County)
- Sept. 2006 - Hybrids-Plus by Hybrids-Plus, (Boulder, CO, contact info@hybrids-plus.com)
- Sept. 2006 - Manitoba Hydro by EnergyCS, (Winnipeg, Manitoba)
- Sept. 2006 - Veridian Corp. by Hymotion, (Ajax, Ontario, contact dhillsmilligan [at] veridian.on.ca)
- Oct. 2006 - Chelan County (WA) Advanced Vehicle Initiative's "WhiteBird" was converted with the second PiPrius kit, (Contact Ron Johnston-Rodriguez: info [at] plugincenter.com or (509) 663-5159)
- Nov. 2006 - Todd Dore of the Fox Valley EAA chapter, Prius GrayPearl was converted with the third PiPrius kit.
- Nov. 2006 - CalCars new PriusPlus conversion of Sven Thesen's 2005 Prius
- Jan. 2007 - Jim Fell, Peterborough, England PFC40 conversion with 56 x 90ah Thundersky cells named FellUK.
Newest Vehicles
- http://www.google.com/search?q=DUAL+PWR-PHEV
- mrbighrc2k writes On December 11, 2006 I presented to this forum the final conversion of my 2004 Prius to a PHEV nicknamed "DUAL PWR-PHEV" in Long Island, New York by a private enthusiast individual with no commercial gains and overlooked by the fellows of CalCars in their chronological events page. Information of the event was posted on our local NY-LIPOG website including a Power Point presentation of the principles of electrical operation of this conversion and at that moment "DUAL PWR-PHEV" was the 22th USA private conversion made
- http://www.autobeyours.com/PHEV.htm - Steves salvaged "imwoody36 special" PHEVs Prii conversion!
Original CalCars Method
Further development of the Original CalCars method has been postponed to check-out the #Hybrid-Pack Method:
This method exploits the State Of Charge Drift portion of the vehicles battery management routines in order to accomplish State Of Charge Manipulation with the use of a Battery Tap Emulator. The result is the ability to effectively change the target SOC from the normal 3/4 to 1/4 which is more useful for PHEV applications. The Prius EV Mode is also utilized to further enhance the use of the additional electric energy provided by a larger Prius PHEV Battery Options-CalCars. A CAN device is required to acts as a Prius PHEV User Interface and management device. Such hardware/software will need to follow logic similar to that laid out by Prius PHEV Pseudo Code. Ron's first PriusPlus conversion used early proprietary EDrive technology. Later conversions will use hybridinterfaces CAN-View Scantool which is currently available only for 2004 and 2005 Prius. You can take a looks at Prius PHEV Photos which are available to help visualize parts of the conversion process. |
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Hybrid-Pack Method
The Hybrid-Pack method:
As of yet unimplemented except perhaps by Hymotion, until we know more, see Battery Pack Configurations#Hybrid for the core ideas surrounding this method or Prius PHEV Battery Options for more specific battery information. CalCars is now working towards implementing this type of configuration in three Prii with much success thus far. Stay tuned...
Contactor Based
Ron is refining a contactor and resistor based setup in his car.
- Prius PHEV Battery Options#Contactor Based
- State Of Charge Manipulation#Contactor Based
- Prius PHEV Schematics#Contactor Based
- Documents from 2004 with information and considerations regarding various configurations.
- Good news: a hybrid-battery solution to the CCL conundrum
Ron Gremban - EAA-PHEV_Maillist:2006./5./5 & Y:187
PFC Based
Rich Rudman of manzanitamicro, and Ryan are working on an implementation using an upgraded PFC-30 as a DC-DC converter and charger, and Rich is hoping to develop and offer conversion kits.
See PiPrius for more details.
- Prius PHEV Battery Options#PFC Based
- State Of Charge Manipulation#PFC Based
- Prius PHEV Schematics#PFC Based
Electro Energy has successfully demonstrated a PFC based setup with NiMH during CalCars trip to DC.
- 2006.05.26 - financialnewsusa.com - Electro Energy Participates in Plug-In Hybrid Vehicle Demonstration in Washington, D.C. and Power Air Lists on Frankfurt Stock Exchange
References
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Kits and Conversions
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- Local List Archives
- Locally hosted EAA - Plugin Hybrid Electric Vehicle maillist
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eaa-phev/
- Related External List Archives
- News from CalCars.Org (a one-way "broadcast" update, 30+ messages/month, latest developments and news clips about PHEVs, CalCars, partnering groups)
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/calcars-news/
- PRIUS+ Plug-In Hybrid Conversion Group (discussion area for CalCars' PRIUS+ project, largely superceded by this group. Past postings viewable to non-members; attachments viewable by members only. Currently closed to new members.)
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/priusplus/
- An open forum on anything PHEV
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gridable-hybrids/
- http://www.greencarcongress.com - An online publications about green transportation options.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/phev - "Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle World".
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cal_pv_phev - "photovoltaics + plug-in hybrids project at UC Berkeley".
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/edrivephev - PHEV and EDrive specific group.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HyMotion - PHEV and Hymotion specific group.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hybridsplus - PHEV and Hybrids-Plus specific group.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sprinter-phev - DaimlerChrysler Sprinter Van group.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/camryplus - Toyota Camry Hybrid conversion group.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Prius_Technical_Stuff Technical (non PHEV) Prius group.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ETList - Electrifying Times Discussion Group
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