Gen 2 Prius Battery Test

Each of these contains six 1 2 volt cells says green car reports.

Gen 2 prius battery test.

No worries you can find out if your battery needs help or not. For a battery that hardly does more than power up some computers and allow the high voltage system to come on. Leave a comment gas capades by dave wigstone. How to diagnose the health prius hybrid battery.

This is a step by step tutorial on how to replace the 12v not the hybrid battery on a 2nd gen 2004 2009 toyota prius with smart key capability. Prius 12v and hybrid battery and 12v aux battery self test procedure. Each battery block is about 15v. The second generation prius plug in called toyota prius prime in the u s.

Back in 2012 i purchased a well used gen ii prius. Whichever block has the lowest voltage is reported in a pid parameter id called battery min block voltage. The prius battery consists of a bunch of individual battery blocks wired in series. So you could say it was a bit of a gamble.

In november 2016 followed by japan in february 2017. And prius phv in japan was developed in parallel with the standard fourth generation prius model xw50 released in december 2015. The hv battery ecu monitors the voltage of each individual block. The model was released to retail customers in the u s.

Test your battery for free so maybe we say that you are near broke and need to know if your prius is going to make it. The toyota prius battery from the dealer can easily run you upwards of 235 dollars. All of the block voltages vary slightly.