Add-on Improves Prius MPG

Sure sport! And exactly WHAT charges this bigger battery? If it is still the gas engine, then you will get pretty much the same gas mileage. If he is charging it by plugging it in, then a mpg figure is totally meaningless.

 

Go easy there big fella...

The article says:

"With my battery system, you can charge the pack from a regular house AC
outlet, and drive between 20 and 40 miles in primarily electric-only mode,
with the gas engine coming on occasionally to keep oil flowing in the
transmission and to keep the car's fluids up to operating temperature.

 

Sounds like there's nothing different about this one than anything
we know about already; hymotion, calcars, pluginsupply, etc...
something to inject a little extra energy but still let the
hybrid system run normally and just think it's got a high SOC
all the time.
.
Every one of which fails to account for "charging kilowatt-hours"
in its marketing lit.
.
_H*

 

I want one

 

But that energy is free because you already have it at your house. *






















* No, I'm not really serious, but I have seen this argument applied to the HHO generator fantasy.

 

deleted, I didn't scroll to the bottom

 

:madgrin:

 

The energy could be free if your house uses solar.

 

Where can I get the free solar panel(s)? How many years are they guaranteed to last? Will someone come out to my house and install them for free too? ; )

 

My educated guess is that your question isn't serious. But what the hell. I'll play along. I have free solar panels on my house. And that includes installation. And they are guaranteed to last 25 years. They weren't free initially - but since installation, they have paid for themselves more than 100% both financially and in terms of energy produced.

Solar panels will likely always be free... eventually. You've just got to wait them out.

So anyway... yeah. My EV is actually free to "fuel" now.

 

Hold on there big fella, let's just forget that he's playing the part of the 'tard for a moment, and let's just forget that PV panels have a 25 year warranty. Let's even forget that panels pay for their self over time.

There are NUMEROUS companies that WILL install PV panels for free (but Mr. Smarty will have to do his own homework, as he may not be worthy of an average I.Q. person's research). "How?" you may ask, in a simple minded way?

PV is such a good deal, that there are many companys that will, as investors, pay for panels on your house. They look at your average electric consumption over a couple years. This data lets these companys design your system based on your usage. You simply pay your fixed electric bill, based off what ever it was over the past couple years. Your rates never go up. What does it matter if Edison's passing on costs to everybody else ... 5% ... 10% per year? year after year? Decade after decade? YOU have your fixed lease fee that you pay to the installer/investor. You never had to pay a dime. Next lame question, please?

 

Who are you calling a tard? :madgrin:

 

Calling someone X, versus someone playing the part of X, are two different things. The latter presumes it's just acting. I'm sure that wasn't presumptuous, right?

 

I just want to know who is going to install my free solar panels. :madgrin:

 

I have looked and looked and I haven't been able to find a free solar panel or a free installer in Adelaide or Australia. I'll keep looking.

Cost here for a 1kW system is $4,000 to $12,000AU depending on the level of government subsidies, that is about 15 to 44 years pay back time on that 1kW system. I don't qualify for the government assistance because I earn too much household income.

No, solar power is not free, well not for me. I should have got in before the income test was introduced.