Lithium conversion

I have seen discharge currents up to 120A momentary with 40-60A typical with somewhat brisk acceleration.

Charge/regenerative currents up to 80A.

Good luck. Please don't die in a fire from a poorly designed battery.

I assume you're going to design an in-line BCM to monitor on the cell level and spoof the Prius BCM on its 14 voltage channels?

 

possibly search through other threads. someone in france has been quite successful, but the guy is an electrical genius. all the best!

 

You are in DEEP over your head. Give up now.

 

Based on your initial responses, it's clear you have little or no expertise in this area. Rather than do your own research, you're asking to be spoon fed massive amounts of information.

I conclude you are not equipped to embark on such a task. It is best to abandon the project before it starts. You have at least a few hundred hours of research and work ahead of you that includes extremely basic information you appear to lack.

You should either give up now or devote yourself to doing the research for yourself. I lean towards giving up due to your complete lack of understanding of the project scope and unwillingness to engage in your own research.

 

go to the main forum page and scroll down to gen 2 prius accessories and modifications. just below, you'll see prius phev plug in modifications. some good threads there, including two by 'planetaire'.

 

Keith was a bit blunt but he's right. It's not as simple as soldering together enough 18650 cells to roughly match the voltage of the NiMH pack. There is a ton more to it. If you're interested, I suggest googling and reading other ev conversions. There are tons and tons of resources out there, I learned a lot from ecomodder.

If you want to play around with lithium vehicles start small with an electric bike or something. (I started with lithium rc planes and cars) and have moved on to a 1kw electric bike.

There is now no real practical purpose to do lithium conversions of hybrid vehicles now, unless it's to learn. The investment of batteries, charging systems, BMS, etc are not cheap at all. Buying a used purpose built lithium EV can be had for about $8000 USD now.

 

how is this project coming along?

 

any update on the project !!!