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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
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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I've gone from empty to fully charged on several occasions in the Prius plug-in, which has just over 3 kWh of usable charge. Coming down from Creator Lake, and coming down from Yosemite. I don't think I can get a full charge coming down from Mt. Hood, which has at least 10 miles of continuous costing/regen.
The annoying thing about the Prius is the engine kicks on for some reason when regen has been going for a long time, or when nearing full charge.
Nice to recover that energy, but the reality is a full charge is like getting an extra 1/5th of a gallon of gasoline.