《(NREL)Thermal Evaluation of Toyota Prius Battery Pack》.pdf

2002-01-1962 Thermal Evaluation of Toyota Prius Battery Pack Matthew Zolot, Ahmad A. Pesaran and Mark Mihalic National Renewable Energy Laboratory ABSTRACT The Toyota Prius is a five-passenger compact sedan powered by a 52 kW gasoline engine and a 33 kW As part of a U.S. Department of Energy supported study, electric motor. It has a curb weight of 1254 kg. The Prius the National Renewable Energy Laboratory has has a complex dual-mode hybrid configuration in which benchmarked a Toyota Prius hybrid electric vehicle from energy to and from the vehicle wheels can travel along three aspects: system analysis, auxiliary loads, and several different pathways. Mechanical energy to the battery pack thermal performance. This paper focuses wheels passes through a planetary gear set that couples on the testing of the battery back out of the vehicle. More to the engine, electric motor, generator, and to the final recent in-vehicle dynamometer tests have confirmed drive. Power to the wheels can be provided solely by a these out-of-vehicle tests. Our purpose was to (273.6 Volt Nickel Metal Hydride [NiMH]) battery pack understand how the batteries were packaged and through the electric motor, directly from the gaso