On the record of vehicles broadly considered essentially the most dependable autos ever constructed, up there with the Toyota Land Cruiser, the Honda Civic, and the Mercedes W123 diesels, is the unassuming Toyota Prius. Though it provides a little bit of complexity with its hybrid drivetrain, its design eliminates plenty of widespread put on objects and in addition tunes it for excessive effectivity, lengthening its life and inflicting minimal mechanical stress. The Prius has plenty of different methods up its sleeve as effectively, which is why elements of its hybrid methods are sometimes utilized in EV conversions like [Jeremy]’s electrical CJ-5 Jeep.
Contained in the Prius inverter is a buck/increase converter used for stepping up the battery voltage to energy the inverter and provide energy to the electrical motor. [Jeremy]’s battery is way greater voltage than the inventory Prius battery pack, although, which suggests he can bypass the converter and provide vitality from his battery on to the inverter. Because the buck/increase converter isn’t getting used, he can put it to work doing different issues. On this case, he’s utilizing it as a charger. Sending the AC from a normal EV charging wire by way of a rectifier after which to this converter permits the Prius {hardware} to cost the Jeep’s battery, with out including a lot in the way in which of additional costly electronics.
There are another modifications to the Prius tools on this Jeep, although, specifically that [Jeremy] is utilizing an open-source controller because the mind of this conversion. Though this video solely goes into element on a number of the quirks of the Prius {hardware}, he has plenty of different movies documenting his journey to transform this vintage Jeep over to a helpful electrical farm automobile that are price trying out as effectively. There are many different helpful issues that tools from hybrid and electrical autos can do past EV conversions as effectively, like getting used for DIY powerwalls.
