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Old 12-06-2009, 10:06 AM   #56 (permalink)
ericbecky
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Originally Posted by RobertSmalls View Post
This car was never intended to be a PHEV, but I'd like to be able to grid-charge the battery every night, and make liberal use of assist so as to come home with a nearly empty battery.
You can definitely grid charge the Insight.
Somewhere around here I have plans for making a grid charger for it. The plans are from Mike Dabrowksi, who is one of the kings when it come to knowledge about the Insight.
My Insight is currently a PHEV, but I sorta' indirectly charge the stock pack at this point. (See my thread on ecomodder.) I never got around to actually building the direct grid charge to the stock battery.
I am grid charging a booster set of batteries and using the booster to charge up the stock pack.
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