Talk:EAA-PHEV

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FAQ

These should be fleshed out and may eventually warrant their own page, for now they live here.

Other PHEV Projects

I think Dr. Frank of UC Davis and his team of students have done numerious similar projects. I'm aware of a few other people who have added additional battery capacity to Prii, although they did not grid-recharge, those projects are rather close to becomming PHEV projects. I'll try to find those and list them here, feel free to help. --Rjf 17:17, 26 Oct 2005 (CDT) I almost forgot about some of these.

• Dr. Frank of UC Davis ( need more links )
  • Professor Andrew Frank of U.C. Davis and his students built a Prius with 25 miles of EV Range and 110-220 Volt Grid Charging
  • http://www.evworld.com/archives/interviews/frank.html

• Wayne Brown ( ev-button discovery, extra batteries, no plug-in )
  File:04 HV & PbAcidParallelTie2.jpg

  HV tie-in
  • Much thanks to Wayne for discovering and then sharing his discovery of how to install the ev-button at Yahoo in Feb of 2004. He also shared with us some interesting technical info regarding the effects of the ev-mode, "136 Amps (136 Amps X 202 VDC = 27.4 KW = 36.7 Horsepower)" vs "45-50 Amps (10 kW or 13 Horsepower)" in stealth mode (non ev-button electric mode). Wayne was doing a lot of work with additional battery capacity tie-ins. He wrapps it up here, Button Part Number, 31% gain, re-enable confirmation, more details, BMS details, some speculation, 7.5ah aux battery.

• SDSU L3 Prof Jim Burns- Diesel Plugin Hybrid
  • http://www.greencarcongress.com/2004/05/biodiesel_hybri.html This doesn't look like it pluggs in? I'm tempted to remove it.

Pollution & Climate

Need links for items addressing BEV/ICE Pollution (Tailpipes and smokestacks)

• http://www.evadc.org/pwrplnt.pdf
• http://www.electroauto.com/info/pollmyth.shtml
• Climate change Temp Image [1] Image:HockeyStick.jpg (note to self, render attachments!)

Energy Effeciency

Need links for items addressing well to wheel, pump to pavement, or cradle to grave energy effeciency.

Plugging in

It takes but a few seconds to plug in once you reach your destination. Though at the gas pump you need to wait arround and watch the thing, make sure it doesn't overflow, noone takes the prescious juice on your dime. The more you plug into an electrical outlet the less time you have to spend plugging into oil and gas.

Conversation with Ron Gremban of CalCars

Jerry Pohorsky wrote: I did speak to Ron Gremban while I was volunteering at the EAA booth at the Green Festival in San Francisco on Nov. 5th. I asked him how close the diagrams were to what was currently in the car. He said that they should be very close, however if he had it to do over again, he would do things differently. He didn't go into any further details. By the way, he did join the EAA that day and decided to affiliate with the San Francisco chapter.

Ron just installed a second PbA pack to replace the first one. Apparently the first pack has degraded to the point where the internal resistance is too high to be useful anymore. While he was doing the battery swap, he took more photos which he showed me. The photos were still in his camera - he hasn't posted them anywhere yet.

We discussed the CAN View device briefly which is described as a read-only device (although the designer said it could be used to write to the CAN bus eventually). Ron said he didn't think it would do what he wanted and is planning to use a laptop PC with a USB to CAN bus converter (he said the converter costs about $100) to take the place of the Energy CS CAN bus interface/display. He said the Energy CS unit in his Prius is unreliable and intermittent. He is glad he got it since he would not have been able to get the project done without it. But now he wants to design it out and start doing the programming himself.

Ron said he had a busy travel schedule until mid December including trips to Seattle and Detroit. After he gets back he'll have some time to review the diagrams and give us feedback. I still need to grab the rest of the files from the closed Prius Plus Yahoo group and get them uploaded to the PHEV SIG website.