Prius Transaxles
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
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I think I passed the hearing test. Excellent topic. Hope you're running better soon.
after landing on thr lexus 450h project and finding out these are rare and expensive in NZ I'm glad to have seen this as we have thousands of G2 hybrids in New Zealand!
Plenty of possibilities there. The one you had on the bench with very little tweaking would work well on a cruiser motorcycle with a different pulley for belt drive! All in due time though, you've already got a large amount of things accomplished this year already. Does those transaxles use regular gear oil or is it some special brew just for these that Toyota thought up?
They all use Toyota WS atf oil (World Standard)
Thank You, Damian !!!
Oh I’ve got it. Replace the differential with a spool then use one Prius motor/transaxle for each wheel. 140 hp AWD.
How much power can you get from a Prius transaxel/motor?
Great stuff as usual. Thanks.
More Red Arrow when you are running on all stator poles please.
nice work ( as usual ). what sort of KW are those motors ?
My Prius 2012 with 140,000 miles on it stopped me on the road. The car engine nolonger starts but it can move or drive on HV battery only. The scan says P3147, P0335 and P0A0F. But later the P3147 stopped showing. I have changed the crankshaft position sensor, its good but I changed it. checked the reluctor plate inside the engine and its in its position and in good shape and I changed the ECU or brainbox. The crankshaft position sensor wire harness is good. Still the car can't start.
Before this issue I have been having rattling and knocking sound in the engine at idle or low speed only when the hybrid battery is charging. If it's not charging the rattling noise doesn't come on.
No error codes on that.
I cleaned egr valve, nozzles, pc valve, inlet manifold, throttle body and changed plugs still the noise didn't stop.
I beginning to think the problem is my transaxle. The MG1 motor that starts and charges the HV battery. Remember I said my car only rattles when the car is charging the HV battery on idle or low speed. Now the car cannot start.
I am thinking of changing the whole engine including the transaxle.
What do you think the issue is?
My location is Lagos Nigeria
I managed to get one of those Toyota Estima motors as well. I paid AU $70 for mine. Wonder if it would be good to use for being the prime mover of the compressor motor that is normally fed from the ICE fan belt?
kind regards, appreciate your research :)
Question Sir
Please which is the inlet for the coolent in the transaxile. The upper hole or the lower hole?
This is great Damien. How much would you pay for a Nissan Leaf motor here in Ireland?
Damien, I have bought a 2012 Renault Kangoo Z.E Would it be possible to uncork the 44Kw motor to match the Nissan Leaf 80 Kw (or more!) since I think they use the same components as they had a joint cooperation at that time. What do I need and what cost can I expect? Thank you in advance // Tomas from Sweden
Oh god, the high-pitch squeel constantly in the background. Gah. I presume you can't hear it, or I can't imagine how you're in the room with it.
It is not that annoying as you make it sound mate, I would say it is pretty subjective whether it is or not.
@@baker500877 - Well, it's subjective in how each person hears it, as hearing loss increases with age and damage, and the high frequencies are the first to go. But it's objective in the pitch and volume of the squeal. To me it's so loud that there's no volume I can listen to, where I can still hear Damien's voice and not have the squeal, as they're about equally loud.
@@MattsAwesomeStuff Idk man I watched the whole video and that noise was only there for the first couple of minutes (of which it wasn't annoying for me at all) and then a couple more times when he moved the camera close to the thing that was producing that noise, I'm not trying to argue with you I just thought it wasn't really annoying for me :D
Sounds like my tinnitus, it's awful. 6:15 it goes down a bit.
@@MattsAwesomeStuff I'm a 61 year old auto mechanic with partial hearing loss and I found it ANNOYING. As much as I love the idea of owning/driving my own electric, I couldn't put up with that.
Would that little motor / generator be powerful enough to drive a Geo metro Suzuki Swift?
30kW peak is enough for a compact car. highway cruise power will be 6-7kW only, so a 50kW motor from a prius is plenty and will give you a 0-60 times at around 5 seconds with 500 pounds of batteries. Such a battery will have 50kWh and give you a range of 600 miles. In short excellent choice, finding the smallest car possible for a conversion. Another option is the rear e-transaxle Q211 from a RAV/4 or Highlander 2006 onwards. It is lighter and smaller and also 50kW, possible also cheaper.
@@Tore_Lund 9 months later thank you very much. I really didn't have the expertise to do this. But I have engineers now it's a place called go create Wichita State University. Kansas USA.
@@stevencorrea7982 Congratulations, nice to hear you got it off the ground. Funny thing is, I was in the same fantasy stage at that time too, and I got an 18 year old lead acid battery EV based on the Fiat 600 last month, now upgraded to 20kWh Li-ion. I use only 16kWh/100mi, it is slightly bigger than the Swift, but in the same ballpark and city driving is only around 12kWh/100mi, with the stock squirrel cage 30kW motor, so yes, small EVs are so much more efficient, read cheaper in batteries. Next dream is a solar roof. If I can stick just 250W on there, 95% of my trips will be without needing charging, I don't drive much, only shopping, fetching kids some days of the week etc and the odd 70 mi family visit.
The motor in the Prius is only 35hp. Is that enough? Maybe two for AWD might work.
What type of torque does it produce?
it depends on which model your using gen 3 is at 80hp/207nm for mg2 only on stock controller
Hi Damien, what vehicle conversions would the Prius transaxle work in?
Something front wheel drive would be ideal I think. Planning a Toyota Celica for my wife.
Thank you for your reply. You have a way of making it do highway speeds I assume. I am looking forward to more on the 7 series when your health permits.
I am so mad I didn't know about this before. But you live and learn. I would like to put two of these unit in a car. Not the model s D. I guess you would call it the Prius D. I wish I know how much torque these little Motors put out. What two be ample enough for freeway driving?
Are Toyota hybrid transaxles good for continuous usage? I mean driving for a hundred kilometers at potentially highway speeds? Not sure because in their original cars they are always coupled with an ICE and the battery capacity is good for like 5-10 kilometers on EV mode.
Yes but they have a Max speed. They can only remain fully electric when below 70km/h. They have a transaxle oil cooler by default to keep them in spec.
@@ReubenHorner If the oil cooling is uprated, can it achieve for example 120 km/h?
@@epatto I don't believe it is a cooling issue but simply what rpm the motors can take. I would imagine they could output more horses without issue but going over speed comes with a few issues that comes to my mind.
1. I'm not sure if you can exceed the top speed without increasing voltage. I have heard somewhere they are brushless DC that would need fancy controlling to do field weakening?? Not sure about that one.
2. Simply rotating it faster means there is a higher chance they fail (break apart).
3. I think it would be more productive to try and break the transaxle apart to change the final drive to allow a higher top speed. They are very reliable so there is headroom for sure but I'm not sure about the limits
Okay, so it's out of the question for my EV project then. Too bad Nissan Leaf motors are so expensive.
@@epatto how much are they? Are they in such high demand?
I am so mad I didn't know I could get a whole Drive unit this cheaply.
In your last live stream you mentioned tearing down the model 3 inverter and not knowing if anybody else had ever done so. There is someone that has done that already, that I know of. A few months ago a channel named Ingineerix did a very nice video going through the model 3 inverter. The have gone through almost the entire vehicle describing everything from the cooling system to the front controller and the drive unit itself.
Here is the video of the tear down. There is a list of the components in the description.
ruclips.net/video/l6dV2re3rtM/видео.html