Re: Crash - Prius Meets Suburban

["Christopher Zach" <czach@computer.org>]

Question:

The Prius is advertised as having a 33kw motor. I recently saw a post
stating that the 9 inch ADC motors are only 17kw. The motor on my Prizm is
rated at 50kw.

Is the ADC numbers correct? Could the Prizm motor be used to power an EV
directly?

Chris


----- Original Message -----
From: "David M. Stensland" <stensland@peakpeak.com>
To: <ev@listproc.sjsu.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 12:59 PM
Subject: Crash - Prius Meets Suburban


> The following story came through on the Prius group at Yahoo.com.  It's
> appropriate for this list because it's a first hand account of one body
> shop's fear of "all those electronics and wire connections" in a modern
> automobile.
>
> There's an excellent photo of the vehicle at the picture link listed in
> the article.
>
> -Dave
>
> From: "deptulo" <drit1@h...>
> Date: Sun Jul 21, 2002 8:25 am
> Subject: Prius wreck & aftermath
>
>
> At one year old & 46,000 miles our Prius was struck by a
> Chevy Suburban from the side in the front by someone running a red
> light. Picture at: <http://members.cox.net/drit1/DSCF6040002c.JPG>
> The whole front end forward from the spring towers was offset about a
> foot. No injuries to the driver & the ICE still ran, but leaked a
> little coolant from the radiator when running. The body shop said "no
> problem" & gave a $5,000 estimate to repair. After several weeks the
> insurance company finally called & said they had declared the car a
> total loss with the final repair estimate being over $16,000. It
> seems that in order to repair the damage, the drive train and "all
> those electronics and wire connections" would need to be removed &
> nobody but the dealer felt capable to tackle this. Thus the car would
> have to go back & forth between the dealer & the body shop several
> times. After that, nobody, including the dealer could guarantee that
> the electronics (and maybe some of the other electronic devices) had
> survived, so some portion of the cost to repair/replace them was
> included in the estimate. So in about a week we'll see what comes
> next - a value will be assigned to the car. A sad end.
>
>
>