GS 450h electric engine run
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I was bored the other day and decided to try an run my 450h on battery only. To do this I had to keep the car under 10 mph and on mostly level surface. I timed it and has able to get about 4mins of run time before the engine kicked in. My question is, can I get it so the gs 450h can run battery only ? They do it on Toyota Prius. Has anyone ever herd of this being done ?
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I've thought some about this too. The 450h has a much larger battery than the prius and in theory both engines should work similary even though the consumers of both on average require different things from the car. I would think there could be something done to turn the 450h hybrid drive to be economical focused prius mode and not power focused 450h mode.
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Have you considered talking to Hybrid Plus http://hybrids-plus.com/ I was giving serious thought to doing this to my Prius but I had a surprise call from my Lexus dealer about a pre-owned RX400h two years old 15,000 miles needless to say I left the Prius and took the RX I just might consider the conversion after the lease is up.
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