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Originally Posted by Xist
How is the plug-in-Prius different?
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This one use lithium cells, about 4.5 kWh. The Prius + (7 seats) in Europe have lithium cells, between the 2 front seats. But for this one it is more to have place for the 6 and 7 seat.
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Originally Posted by Cobb
Id give you an award since you figured it out. I dont know of a single American who has successfully used the PP BMS.  On the Insight forum there was a group buy to make a lifepo4 insight if not a PHEV mode, but only 1 guy has come close to making it work, not counting Peter. |
Thank's for the award.
But we are several using his bms in our Prius. 4 guys today in France.
You have to be carrefull because there is a ttl bus that have to be shortened as much as possible and because in a Prius you have huge and quick voltage variations between the cells and the car body. Then we use a bluetooth to communicate whis a PC and the bms send twice each voltage value in order to know if one have been modified by a "spike".
His bms is low cost, modular, safe. During charging if any problem occur it is easy to stop this process. So cells won't be damaged.
I would have believed that it was easier in insight because there is less cells. We have 70 lithium cells in our Prius so ttl bus could be longer.