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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
Last I looked Toyota no longer sells Gen 2 Prius batteries. But you could get a new Gen 3 battery, swap out the modules, and take the Gen 3 battery back with the old modules in it as the core.
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I could have sworn we've already had this conversation. Toyota is still selling the Gen2 batteries. They are their highest volume battery. There are just supply issues at this time. I've bought 4 in the last month.
Your plan would work, but you would pay about $600 more for the battery and do a lot of excess work.
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I've heard good things about Nexcell lithium batteries in Prius as far as the Project Lithium is concerned. But I don't expect them to do extremely well in very high heat or very low cold. These aren't the cylinderical cells but are pouch cells. I do think it would have been better to have put them in metal module cases than plastic ones, though, for better cooling. Still, I'm tempted to get these for my Prius.
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I'm extremely confident these will prove to be of lower value than the Toyota NiMH packs. These are simple drop-in substitutions of 5S LFP modules in place of the 2X 6S NiMH modules. Zero provisions have been made for managing the LFP cells as they should be. The car will treat them like Nickel.
They will likely be better than the horrifying cylindrical cells.