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Originally Posted by MetroMPG
There's a guy in England with a lithium pack in an Insight, if I'm not mistaken.
Hmm... appears to be an additional pack for PHEV purposes, though, not a replacement of the OEM pack:
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I wish I had seen this thread earlier but I haven't.
No, it is NOT an additional pack. He removed and replaced the packs in the two Insights that he has running on lithium(he owns three).
He has one car with a 40Ah Lithium Iron Phosphate pack using larger less dense cells that were available back when he originally bought and installed them into the car in 2008 and had everything running new year 2009.
Since then he has monkeyed with a 8Ah Lithium Iron Phosphate pack that didn't work out so well before switching it out with a more powerful 20Ah A123 LiFePO4 pack. He also worked with another Insight used for rallies and that one has a 15Ah pack installed, I believe, may have been 16Ah or some other very close number.
All of these packs have a voltage higher than nominal as well and the A123 20Ah pack has run with significantly more power after modifying the MCM so it sees the voltage and current values differently and therefore provides more power. 18kw is what I think he is at right now versus the stock 11kw.