Prius Solar Panel Mod
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.
Prius solar panel mod. 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. Using prius batteries in an off grid according to this guy the nominal voltage for the prius battery is 220 volts. Toyota has fitted out an experimental prius with a fresh rooftop solar kit to explore the limits of sun powered road travel. Solar flux reborn adds solar panels that generate fe or rf.
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. With solar panels that thin toyota has the flexibility to add them to not only the car s. 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. Sadly the solar option on the prius can only work while the car is powered off and that is a bummer. Unlike the previous solar panels to adorn its plug in hybrid the new. Prius gen 3 prius technical discussion solar panel mod controller discussion in gen 3 prius technical discussion started by azusaprius jul 6 2020.