Jumpstarting a Hybrid with my EV

[bennelson]

Ever wish there was a resourceful person around with some jumper cables for when you kill your battery and need a jump start!?

Well, today, I WAS that person.

I jumpstarted a Hybrid with my EV!

That's right.....Electro-Metro to Insight Resuscitation!

[SVOboy]

I was expecting some kind of accompanying movie

[bennelson]

Jeesh! I make one YouTube video and then all you people EVer want from me is more video!!!!!



....It's uploading to YouTube right now.....


OK - Video is up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tRdstTyAjY

Hey! Let's do a mini-contest! Can anyone guess who's car it was that got jump-started?

[SVOboy]

Hahahaha. I hope I see him again this summer

I'll let some others who don't know the answer guess at it.

[NiHaoMike]

How did you jumpstart a 144v car with a 72v car? Did you charge the two 72v halves of the pack separately?

[bennelson]

No, it was actually very simple.

The car key was accidently left in the 12 position during the day while the Insight was being displayed. That killed the 12v battery. His 144V system was fine.

I simply did a regular jump-start to his 12v system, except that I could use any one of 13 batteries in my car.

I jumped it from one of my high-voltage system batteries, because it had better and bigger posts than my 12v system battery does.

It really did start up instantly.

The driver looked a bit uncomfortable, having to idle his car for a bit to recharge his 12v battery. Just think of all that gas he wasted. I bet he got a little less than 70 mpg that day.

No guesses on who the Insight pilot in the video is?

It's our very own Eric Powers, founder of HYBRIDFEST.
He swings through Ecomodder every once in a while. Say hello! if you see him!
Better yet, come by HYBRIDFEST July 17-19, 2009 in Madison Wisconsin!