---- David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:
> 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,

The 6.5 amp hours is the rating of one of the small batteries making up the traction package.  There are 28 of those in series in my 2006 Prius.

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David McNeely