Prius Solar Panel Mod

Sadly the solar option on the prius can only work while the car is powered off and that is a bummer.

Prius solar panel mod.

Using prius batteries in an off grid according to this guy the nominal voltage for the prius battery is 220 volts. With solar panels that thin toyota has the flexibility to add them to not only the car s. Toyota has fitted out an experimental prius with a fresh rooftop solar kit to explore the limits of sun powered road travel. Unlike the previous solar panels to adorn its plug in hybrid the new.

So while your prius is parked in the sun it is actually storing energy and powering the ventilation system and fan maintaining a cooler temperature on the interior of your vehicle. Imho the solar option on the 2010 prius is too sweet for words and depending on how much air it is actually able to push through the cabin this little mod can only hope to do 20 cfm for now. Solar panels located on the roof of your new toyota prius absorb the sun s rays and use that absorbed solar energy to power the vehicle s ventilation system. If you dig into his site he has lots of test data and describes how he bought a mid range ups which requires 220 volts nominal for home backup leaving the prius running to act as an inverter genset.

The new prius models will have solar panels built by sharp thin films that are around 0 001 inches thick. Toyota will start testing a new solar roof for the prius that it says can add as much as 44 5 km of range to the plug in hybrid a day. The mod comes by default with 8 different tiers of solar panels fully configurable. We look at an aftermarket solar panel and battery system that makes your hybrid plugin.