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Phil
 
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Default Turn your Prius into a UPS

And what do the useable battery packs weigh?
And the motors/generator/other associated control gear (inverters etc.)
Much better to ditch the lot & make it lighter & more economical to
run. After all, electricity to recharge isn't e-friendly either.


Phil.

Doctor Drivel wrote:
"Phil" wrote in message
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...much better idea than driving the
thing about with all those heavy
batteries!


The Prius battery is very light in fact.
"It has a curb weight of 1254 kg. The Prius ... weight of the complete
battery pack is 53.3 kg."
http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:c0cnio7AHR0J:www.nrel.gov/vehiclesandfuels/energystorage/pdfs/2a_2002_01_1962.pdf+Prius+battery+%22weight%22&hl= en


Amazing. They all guess and always get it wrong.