PHEV Portfolio

Examples of Elithion's technology in use in Plug-in Hybrids

Toyota Prius

Davide Andrea designed a Plug-in Hybrid conversions for the Toyota Prius (for Hybrids Plus, a company he co-founded):

• Some reverse engineering
• electrical and electronic design
• software development

Two models: PHEV 15 (about 30 mile PHEV range) and PHEV 30 (about 60 miles).

This product is generally recognized as the most seamlessly integrated PHEV conversions made:

• PHEV battery replaces stock battery, electrically, physically and in the communication network.
• Access to the spare tire is retained
• In the PHEV15, no storage space is lost (very little is lost in the PHEV30)
• No permanent modifications: the car can be easily restored to factory conditions
• Able to display true battery SOC in original Prius display, flicker free
• Proprietary plug location, not requiring a hole drilled in the car body

The Prius PHEV conversions.

Top: PHEV15 - PHEV battery replaces stock battery; Middle: PHEV30; Bottom: AC plug.

Ford Escape

Davide Andrea also designed a Plug-in Hybrid conversion for the Ford Escape:

• reverse engineering
• electrical and electronic design
• software development
• general mechanical design

The conversion replaced the stock battery with a PHEV battery of much higher available capacity, in the same location as the original battery, giving the vehicle an approximate PHEV range of 50 miles.

The Escape PHEV conversions.

Top: installation; Middle: completed; Bottom: happy customer.

Uncannily, this design was later closely matched by Ford itself, in its PHEV prototype (though certainly developed independenly), in a way confirming that the design choices that we made were sound.