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Old 12-14-2009, 12:52 PM   #2 (permalink)
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The Prius uses ~250Wh per mile from what I've heard. So, it looks like they're adding an additional ~7-8kWh. Thats really not much at all. The ForkenSwift has a 10kWh pack. It should only cost a few thousand more for the pack itself. I estimate $3k in Lithium at prices available to us, they'll obviously get it cheaper. The rest of everything is already there, it just requires some programming changes.

Edit: Wow, my math was way off haha. 14 miles @ 250 kWh mile would be 3.5 kWh. It seems, according to Ben's post, that people are averaging 370 Wh/mile with the Prius, not very good compared to our other low speed DC conversions around here!
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