How to increase battery capacity?

MPBK · 11-15-2011, 12:00 AM

The batteries in this car is way too small.
To give you an idea, I go down a long hill (batteries are fully charged at the bottom) and then take a somewhat steep up hill. The charge is gone half way up the hill.

I think doubling the battery capacity would be about right for this car.
Is it as simple as connecting another set of batteries in parallel to the existing ones?
Anyone has done that and can share experiences and tips?

Eli · 11-15-2011, 12:22 AM

Enginer PHEV.

retepsnikrep · 11-15-2011, 02:26 AM

There are quite a few threads on here about increasing gen 1 battery capacity with lithium and parallel cells. If you have the skills etc perhaps you can transfer those type of mods to the I2. The threads should certainly give you some food for thought. Try a few searches.
Eli has mentioned the enginer phev kit which is for the G2. That's an option.