Paul Lamar wrote:

This is either a Honda or Toyota hybrid motor/alternator. I took these
pictures at the Tokyo Motor Show last October.
Note the rectangular wire. Doug might find one of these in a Japanese
junk yard some place. Should be plenty of them in US junk yards in
a few years when the expensive batteries die.

Don't hold your breath on that last statement. I'm under the impression
that when the very expensive battery pack dies, it is in actuality a
single cell or two in the pack that dies. So a profitable core exchange
program is likely, and field repairs are perhaps a possibility.

That said, hybrids are involved in car crashes, too. So I'd expect to be
able to harvest this component from crashed hulks.

Russell Kent



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