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Subject:Re: Prius question with vanagon content
From:David Beierl
Date:Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:00:32 -0400

At 07:40 PM 6/13/2013, Steven Johnson wrote:
>So I believe you would have to have quite a hefty battery to do the same
>in the Vanagon configuration.   Kudos to anyone that finds out otherwise.

The '06 Prius battery is only 6.5 amp hours rating.  Of course that's
at 288 volts.  The battery weighs 150 pounds and is rated about 2.8
kilowatt hours or about 3.75 horsepower hours.

Yrs,
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