After so much research and development, it must be very satisfying to be installing your generation three battery pack into a car. ☮️ Your perseverance will enable Toyota hybrid cars to deliver excellent fuel economy for many more years. ❤
Excellent video, so much easier than the other systems. I am a Beta tester for the V3. Fantastic system, cheaper and super easy install if you have basic tool skills. Take your time and follow this video!!!!
Just as a person who's very knowledgeable with batteries the common traits with sodium ion batteries is: Extremely good low-temperature resistance, down to -40C High discharge rates Very good cycle life (similar to LFP batteries) Very good safety, between very hard to impossible to actually get them to catch fire (also similar to LFP batteries here). Decent energy density (just slightly worse than LFP as of right now, of course still a lot better than the originals) I'd expect these to perform better in every single metric to the original Ni-HM batteries. The real question would be by how much.
The V3 looks a lot easier to install than the blade design, so many less busbars. I am looking forward to hearing more about the sodium ion 12V battery.
Easier to install at the cost of serviceability, this is a downgrade IMHO. If one cell fails, you're looking at an RMA for that whole half of the pack essentially, or god forbid when you're out of warranty. I'll take the extra 30 minutes of install time for better serviceability down the road
I'm #185 been following for a while and using Dr Prius as soon as it worked in my car. Like Professor Kelly hybrid deep dives the info moves right along in your video. If you already have the weight of v 3 and v 3.5 I'm so over hauling out my old NiMH cylinder cells and setting in on my bench, I can't tell you.
I saw in your video you used its original bms then how in Dr prius cells individual voltage shown 3.7v near by.....😮 it must be 7 to 9v per blade voltage as per bms data
Jack, I do understand you trying to go with this battery style…cheaper for you…cheaper for us, however, Toyota is installing lithium in their vehicles. People are going to either want to go with lithium, or simply replace with the tried and true ni-cads. I personally am not looking to make my vehicle an experiment. I wish you’d have kept up with the lithium project.Understandably, you don’t have the wallet that Toyota does, to warranty the failed lithiums you speak of, but lithium is what these cars are currently being produced with. Thank you!
