Found these folks looking to go EV on the Insight (or Prius) and realized PC mod'ers got nothing on these folks EV Insight with a Prius heart - MIMA Honda Insight Modified Integrated Motor Assist Tour De Sol Just when I thought hybrid hackers had run out of possibilites . . . wow, my cahonies are feeling mighty small in comparison.
If it works, how easy would it be to put this in any old car? Cost comparison to other EV conversion projects?
Hmm... Isn't it overly complicated to hack the HSD into a pure-electric vehicle? Wouldn't it be easier to just use one big motor, rather than two motors geared together by immobilizing the HSD ring carrier? With one big motor, that guy wouldn't even have to bother modifying a power-split device. Just the motor hooked up directly to the driveline.
Yeh, it is easy to make the mechanical hack. The firmware hack going to be very difficult if not impossible to eliminate the ICE control codes in the ECU and the motor control ECU.
