Retrofit Plug-In for a full hybrid car.
Hello everybody,
I recently purchased a Toyota Corolla 1.8 Hybrid that I was excited about its technology.
I particularly like the fact that, in cities and provincial roads, most of the time you travel with the engine turned off.
Until I checked it out for myself, I didn't think it could go this far.
But the appetite comes eating... and so I said to myself, how nice it would be to be able to go a few more kilometers with just the electric motor !
So I started to study wh
I read somewhere that in the very earliest experimental versions of Plug-In Prius Toyota used two 'ordinary' HiMH Hybrid batteries, one on top of the other (half filling the boot). It was said to be an early attempt to develop the changes to the rest of the Hybrid system to manage the different charging and discharging requirements, and the changes necessary to allow higher cruising speeds and better acceleration in EV mode. I guess they had other teams working separately on developing the LIO
