The Story Behind CedarHybrids

There is a story behind CedarHybrids. It started a year or so back when I bought a 2007 Toyota Prius. I was retired from a professional career as Research Scientist, Physicist or whatever endeavor I was pursuing at the time. I was bored again and bought the Prius to deliver food for an app and without mentioning names you might identify them as DD. I thought the Prius was the perfect car for running deliveries. After all, who can complain at 50 miles per gallon and it was the perfect car… until it wasn’t. Groan.

It turns out there is a reason it gets such great gas mileage. It has a battery that contributes to the performance of car and ultimately its’ health. When your hybrid car begins to lose its’ great gas mileage, one has to begin looking at the HV battery. I dropped down to 30 mpg or so and thought, “Houston. We have a problem.” Somewhere around that time, I got the infamous Red Triangle of death and knew it was time to figure this issue out. So I took to YouTube like any red blooded American would. I watched all the videos about DIY Prius folks reconditioning their battery and thought, “Hey. that sounds fun and challenging”. At that point, the story took on a new life.

I bought a single channel power supply to charge the module and a light bulb to discharge it. Using a multimeter I plotted the results. Days later, I realized an old man like myself would not live long enough to get all the channels reconditioned using a single channel. My solution was to build a multichannel charge / discharge setup all controlled by switches. It worked quite nicely and proved the concept surrounding the idea or rebuilding bad hybrid batteries. The task of being “on site” and manually flipping switches was beyond what an old man wanted to do. I wanted to flip one switch to kick off the process, go home and take a nap. That’s where a scientist friend stepped in as business partner….

He looked at all the hardware switches and described how much better the process would be if the hardware switches became software switches. Total control of the process could be accomplished via software and we could easily capture all the data produced by monitoring the process. All the while this was going on, I could start getting my naps again. Over about a year, we ran through software and hardware versions refining the process and creating a baseline for what good and bad NiMH batteries looked like during charge and discharge cycles. It’s from this development process we created the test benches which give CedarHybrids the ability to produce a quality reconditioned hybrid battery.

That’s where you come into our story. We want to create in your hybrid battery new life using our unique proprietary system.

Give us a call or text: 210-617-3137.