Prius Traction Battery Failure

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Prius traction battery failure.

If the battery pack in your toyota prius dies before the end of its 150 000 or 100 000 mile warranty toyota will replace it free of charge. Connected in a series they will produce a total of 201 6 volts. But if your car is out of warranty you join the 500. Here are battery failure symptoms for the top brands on the market.

The toyota prius battery is made up of 28 panasonic nickel metal hydride modules each containing six 1 2 volt cells. Toyota prius honda and lexus hybrid battery failure. The toyota prius traction battery can be a tricky thing to understand. The prius electrical system has some characteristics outside the realm of usual car logic that can lead to a dead battery.

The gen2 prius batteries are performing much better than the gen1. Although the signs and symptoms of a failing battery are quite similar across the board these are the top symptoms of a failing battery in your toyota prius lexus hybrids or honda hybrids. Whereas the traction battery or hybrid battery as some call it is used to power the electric parts of the prius electric motor. Lower than usual mpg.

Assuming the failure was diagnosed correctly below are several courses of action. Despite the gen1s battery issues it has been rare to see one fail sooner than 100 000 miles this is pretty good in my opinion especially when you consider that the prius is the first hybrid that sold at such a high volume. So i ve made a video in the past of symptoms your bad hybrid battery might show but it left out a lot of symptoms that i m now experiencing with my battery. This is compared to the lexus rx 400h which can deliver 500 volts.

Toyota prius battery pack problems. The more i research the more i uncover hidden information on these batteries. I ve seen gen2s with 200k on the original battery. The warranty on the hv battery in the us for 1st gens nhw11 aka 01 03 models is 8 year 100k miles.