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Old 06-15-2023, 10:58 AM   #25 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Piotrsko View Post
I was taking the project as adding more battery to a hybrid and forgetting about fuel operations. Except for having BMS problems, couldn't see where that was going to be hard other than periodically hanging the OBD & computer.
That was my take as well. Adding an additional battery pack. There are commercial kits that do just that and add a piggy back Li-Ion pack that charges the stock Prius Ni-MH pack with an inverter. The Li-Ion pack only charges on residential power so power flow is one way and BMS is much simpler.

https://www.enginer.us/products/conversion_kit.php

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