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Old 11-29-2023, 07:25 PM   #48 (permalink)
Isaac Zachary
High Altitude Hybrid
 
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Location: Gunnison, CO
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Avalon - '13 Toyota Avalon HV
90 day: 40.45 mpg (US)

Prius - '06 Toyota Prius
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Originally Posted by Appletank View Post
There have been EV mode retrofit Prius projects before, so yeah a bigger battery should be doable. It really does fill up fast on down hills.
Thanks! One mod I'm looking at is a NiMH to LFP conversion, which should triple the capacity with half the weight (or so says the salesman).

The Avalon hybrid fills up way fast. On one particular downhill segment it will fill fully charged in what seems to be a 10th of the whole downhill slope.
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