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Web Links
Here are some resources I discovered or had pointed out to me while researching and creating this web site. It is not even remotely comprehensive! You can find a lot more by doing a search yourself. If you know of a site you feel would be valuable for others interested in this subject, let me know and I will add a link.
Commercial PriUPS!
Gary just pointed me to this. A vendor of a PriUPS system that connects to the traction battery. It's a 4kW "plug-out" system for under $2000. Check the specs. It only supplies 120V, so if you need 240V to run your well pump, furnace, or other essential appliances, you'll probably want to keep searching for an eBay UPS solution.
Time sensitive - Events
"Hybridfest" - 22 July 2006 in Wisconsin - An out-of-state adventure for you and your Prius (It's over!)
Prius Owners and Groups
Here's a guy who did
all the collecting
for me
Interesting
Car and Driver article
This group wants to
make the Prius even more electric
As does CalCars, adding batteries to get
infinite mpg on short trips
The Autoblog site
has current Prius news and discussions
Goodies!
Good technical discussions and more at
Priusonline.com and Priuschat.com
(registration required)
Here is a
Prius driving simulator! Extreme coolth
And a 12V version of
the PriUPS idea.
Enormous list of
Prius links.
A not quite so enormous list of "Fuel
Efficient Vehicle" links
A guy who
sent a proposal to Toyota to use the Prius for energy. It was
apparently ignored.
Another goodies site,
mostly silly or unnecessary stuff, but Prius-centric.A host of Prius
modifications from the "EVNUT"
— that says it all —
web site.
Tutorials on Prius mods and maintenance - "PriusDIY"
General Hybrid Vehicle Sites
News, links, owner views and postings for all hybrid manufacturers at
MixedPower.com
Blogs, current news, dealer recommendations and more at
hybridcars.com
The Hybrid Jungle is a community and
resource with a message board, articles, and news.
Prius Technical Information
What's Going On as I Drive my Toyota Prius from
Graham Davies
who's been at this a long time
Ernst Schmidbauer
also has made some interesting measurements and observations
Interesting and valuable
diagnostic information including a
CAN interface
And a scanner
to get your own data
A mother lode of useful and interesting data:
With this you don't even need a Prius, you can just simulate your way to a
destination. Infinite mpg!
Useful specifications for the three
generations of Prius battery.
Inverters
Some
background information on inverters in general
Even
Toyota makes an inverter, but not for the Prius
Design your own
A Company that makes house UPS units.
A
marine inverter that works on 144 Volts - For the Honda Civic?
Ham (Amateur Radio) Related Prius Information
WA8LMF has some good
information on installing a radio transmitter in the Prius.
Bob, WB4APR suggests Prius
Power for Field Day
Other types of Home "UPS" units - generators, etc.
A company that believes in a UPS for the home,
although with a conventional UPS. Possible source for electrical transfer
hardware and switching.
Anderson power - High power
connectors for DC
Onan generators
Honda Generators
Solar and Wind Power
Electric and Semi-Electric Vehicles
Valuable information on grid-connection issues from
AC Propulsion
And a site devoted to "Vehicle to Grid Power"
Add a bigger battery to your Prius
Information on adding a
bigger battery to your Prius
These guys have California approval to
modify your Prius to a PHEV
A homeowners guide to electric vehicles https://www.angieslist.com/articles/homeowners-guide-electric-vehicles.htm
And Now For Something Completely Different
I sustained an email from John about his "ecotourism" holidays.
We're located at Ecotourism Holidays. Our site's new, but our general outline will be a resource for low environmental footprint travel and suggestions of locations with clean tourism tactics already in place.
It looks interesting and I would like to think that they offer the Prius as one of the car hire options. I'm further of the hope that a Cadbury Creme Egg will be delivered in due course for this high-profile mention.
Ham Radio Logging Software
I've been using :LOGic software to keep track of my DXCC status, ham awards, and contacts ever since I retired my HP Vectra with the Viper Rocky Mountain Basic card in 1990 or so. I think it would be fair to say that Dennis, the LOGic guru, knows a lot more about computer logging programs, if not not necessarily Rocky Mountain Basic, than I do. They're up to version 9.
It is my pleasure to paste his code, which results in the image above, right where I did.
Miscellaneous
Does the Prius make financial sense? My favorite financial dude Andrew Tobias occasionally writes on the subject, but you'll have to find the individual columns yourself.
Driving, and The Audi Brake Scandal: P.J. O'Rourke explains everything in Parliament of Whores. Only tangentially related, but a must-read.
A few (quite a few) words, albeit pretty basic, about cars, cars, insurance, and cars.
Comprehensive reviews of "green" cars. At the moment, the Chevy Volt is front and center (amid the blinking ads, to be sure.)
Credits
Thanks to the indefatigable Michael Grace for finding a lot of this stuff and sending it while the western world sleeps.
Updated 22 August 2020