Using PIP As A Generator

Plug in to your $100 50/60 Hz converter and light up the town. If there's a market, China mfg's will be shipping container loads to US with US specs.

Toyota, Ford and other hybrid manufacturers would be smart to offer the "Disaster power supply" option which is also a camping, football tailgating etc. power option for hybrids, extra selling point.

 

a 100v 50hz to 120v 60hz converter?? I must have lived a sheltersd life. Never seen/heard of such an animal.
Link?
Otherwise this 'Japanese only' appliance is pretty much useless here in the good ol' U.S.A.

 

the way things are going, ford or gm will probably have something available in the u.s. before toyota.

 

The standard J-1772 connects to the onboard CHARGER only, so unless they have a version of the onboard charger thats also an inverter, you can't draw power though the J-1772 connector from the PiP. BTW, there is a name for this "V2G" or "vehicle to grid", google it.

 

Confiscate that mans' Prius!

 

i hope they prove me wrong!

 

yup.

 

Power supplies for things like cell phones and computers are now typically "universal", in that they are rated for 100-240V 50-60Hz, so the Japanese power supply would could be used on some things. But separate is the issue whether the U.S. version of the PiP is even capable of providing power through the J1772 plug.

 

The Chevy Silverado/GMC Sierra Hybrids come with a 110V outlet that is designed to run power tools

 

As a matter of fact, Toyota has designated a new name and it is : V2H (vehicle to HOME)

 

During blackout, man uses Toyota Prius to light house - U.S. News

 

Folks, there's a guy in Annapolis MD who had actually solved some of the discussed setup situations for, judging by his web site, several years now. Pls note the VDC discussion in the 2d half of his web site. Fascinating stuff.

URL: FD Prius Power

 

Good site, he has covered just about every situation in straight forward terms.

 

Somebody asked if a 1KW Inverter would work. YES, it works fine for a house, I ran mine last night for 2 hours and had every light on downstairs on as well as the refrigerator and the TV and all the standby stuff. The total load was only 400 watts, except for the garage door, I ran that early on with little on and it pulled 300-500 watts! The setup drained all of my EV charge ( which was only 3.9) however it charged my HV portion to solid green. I did not turn on my electric stove nor the micro-wave, but I think the micro-wave would work fine. The florescent lights over my Billiard table did not work well with the inverter but they always have been flakey. The florescent lights in the garage worked fine. All told I am impressed, especially since I picked up the inverter for $30.00, brand new, never used.

 

Yup, same guy that has the priups.com site. You'll see my traction-battery-to-UPS implementation on his site.

 

Just make sure you don't go over 1 kw when using the 12 volt system in the Prius. The DC-to-DC converter is only good for about 1300 watts and the Prius needs 300 for itself.

 

Rice cooker, heck. I want it as a backup for my house. That means an engineered solution that taps the traction battery to supply 206 VDC to an external 3 kW inverter.

A stand-alone backup generator needs periodic maintenance, including operating it to keep everything lubed up and the fuel fresh. Using a hybrid car for that purpose means that all that overhead gets done anyway in the course of maintaining the car.