Installing A Second Traction Battery

Intriguing. I'm wondering where would you put the second traction battery? My guess is the cost benefit analysis would not come close to working out.

 

What sort of “second traction battery”, same size, theoretically doubling range? Would the car’s computers recognize it, or? Down the road, assuming this battery addition eats up cabin space, how would this impact value, for trade-in or sale?

talk yourself off this ledge? Pricing an extra plug-in battery might help with that. If you can find it for sale.

 

The part itself is very expensive, and it would take a lot of smart and careful hacking to find a way to install it and use it. Nice-sounding features like automatic switchover may not be possible.

If you're already into customizing cars and working with high voltage electricity, you might get somewhere with this.

But most people would find it cheaper and easier to keep a second Prius Prime charged up at the halfway point. Or just trade for an EV with more range to begin with.

 

i'll be following the progress!

 

Since the prime flows 1234y through the pack, how do you plan on doing this? Y splitters? Where would you even mount it? What qualifications do you have to undertake or much less even think of such a project?

 

still waiting

 

What would be really cool would be to take out the ICE and all of its associated systems (fuel tank, ICE radiator, etc). And then put more high voltage traction batteries in the spaces that are freed up.

But, wait a minute, then the priusP would become ... an EV !

 

prius bev! we have been asking for a decade

 

Should just buy an EV with the range you want.

 

i did