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Originally Posted by Metalman
Just to stir the pot, our Prius' have 200+ volt drive batteries. Perhaps that has to do with the regenerative system, electric motors, the inverter, and gobs of electrical devices that run from the massive battery pack. With a vehicle that size, I can't imagine that voltage drop would be a problem.
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What’s surprising about hybrid vehicles is that they don’t need very large batteries to significantly improve fuel economy. I’m not refering to electric cars or plug-in hybrids which have much larger batteries, rather normal hybrids that often have less battery energy storage than many RV batteries. Some hybrids have less than 1 kW-hour of energy storage, yet can put out huge power levels.
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