I've been fascintated by the thought of having/converting my car to PHEV; however all the cars converted seem to be priui (sp?), I was reading this evening that the max speed of a PHEV prius is 34mph!!??!

So it got me thinking; the prius has easily enough of a powerful motor to power the car 50-65mph; so why the limitation? I think it has to be the transmission system that can't handle the higher rpm's.

But that means that the HCH is probably more suitable than the prius; as the electric motor is directly connected to the transmission.

I did some calcs using this software:

http://www.machinehead-software.co.u...alculator.html

Putting in the cd; frontal area etc; and the HCH should easily be able to cruise at 55mph on electric power (ignoring battery limitations for one moment).

Can anyone think of why this is not feasible?