Gen 3 boosted the charge voltage, and AHetaFan measured its charge current reaching 60 or 70 amps if the battery is discharged enough. The first couple Prius generations had a fairly low charge voltage, and probably weren't likely to damage the discharged battery during recharging the flip side of that coin was needing to leave the car in READY for at least ten solid hours to fully recharge the battery. That's where a lot of damage to the battery is done, and can be avoided by just swapping in a charged battery and taking the dead one to a nice controlled bench charger. most car charging systems aren't designed to charge a battery at a slow controlled rate, and will violently dump current into a very low-charge battery as soon as the engine has started (as is also happening during the jump start while racing the donor engine).
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