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Old 09-25-2005, 05:31 PM
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Default Re: PHEV question

I haven't seen any detailed instructions, but you may want to contact the team that has done the hack already, they did a version with lead-acid batteries as well as the lithium ion... The hardest thing I can think of is designing the device (battery ECU hack) that tells the Prius that the battery is full until it gets down to a certain point. From what I understand the car's systems communicate over a CAN (controller area network) interface and standards are publically available for that.
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