A Toyota master diagnostic technician explains how the newest Toyota plugin hybrids work from the Prius prime to the RAV4 prime. Everything from their drivetrain, battery, charging and the heat pump HVAC system.
Welcome to a brand new series on my channel about Toyota plug in hybrids and specifically the Prime cars! We are in an age where electric cars or plug in cars are becoming the norm and in this series we’ll take a look at Toyota’s offering and their technology and design.
Of course we will be following my channel’s theme of Simple but complicated to keep this easy to understand and follow.
In the first part of this series we will heavily focusing on the immigration from conventional Toyota hybrids to the Plug in hybrids. Some say that the original Prius PHV was the first plug in hybrid however I view it as an experimental car and the Prius Prime was the one that was truly the first full fledged plug in hybrid due it’s better range and of course the cool name Prime!
Also in this video I’ll respond to comments from my awesome viewers regarding the previous series I did on how conventional Toyota hybrids work. In that series I did not address or get into the planetary gear set so I am making it up in this one by going into how the planetary gear set works, with a focus on plug in hybrids but it also is similar to the regular hybrid Toyota.
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0:00 Intro
0:42 Regular Hybrid Review
2:04 Turning hybrids into plugins
6:04 Planetary gear set and power flow
12:46 Hybrids and Neutral
14:43 Transmission oil Pump
15:32 Battery and next episode preview
