No, that Chinese "Enginer" (SIC) stuff was garbage. If you follow the PriusChat link I sent, you can see an overview. It was a one-off. At the time I didn't see any satisfactory way to bring it to market, and I even received a cease-and-desist from another company trying to do what I was doing and had a patent pending. The older Prius hybrid powertrain makes a poor EV, as you can only achieve a top speed of about 50mph/80kph before the efficiency is super poor, and you are limited to about 20kW of EV power by the boost-converter architecture. I'm really surprised anyone would be interested in it today. Buy a used Chevy Volt if you want a plug-in Hybrid, they are decent. Better yet, prices for used Tesla Model 3's are coming down. If you can ignore Elon's BS, it's a fantastic car, and the Supercharger network was the death-knell of the plug-in hybrid IMO.
On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 6:20 AM EV List Lackey via EV <ev@lists.evdl.org> wrote: > On 16 Jun 2024 at 22:50, (-Phil-) via EV wrote: > > > Unfortunately no, I did not open-source it, and the tech and the car is > > long gone. > > Was this by any chance the Enginer kit? > > David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20240617/8fe3b047/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields HELP: http://www.evdl.org/help/
