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Originally Posted by talonts
I'm curious - since you have a spare, why don't you refurb IT first, then swap it in, then refurb the original as a spare? Or does the "new" spare have many more miles than the original, so you want to have the original one in it when done?
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My car has less than 50000 miles, so its battery might be better than the presumably high mileage junkyard pull. I plan to refurb both, keep the better of the two, and sell the lesser one. But who knows, the junkyard pull may have been recently replaced under warranty.
That's 120 NiMH D-cells, arranged in 20 sticks. The cells weigh 21.3kg = 47lbs, but the battery module weighs closer to 65lbs.
Edit: That means the nominal power density of gasoline is 100 times greater than that of my battery. So the 3.4MJ stored in a full, healthy Insight pack should be enough to cruise five miles at 70mpg (0.08gal gasoline equivalent, by the deeply flawed energy-equivalence method). I can't stop the engine from rotating while the electric motor is turning, but I can cut power to the fuel injectors. Hmm....
This car was never intended to be a PHEV, but I'd like to be able to grid-charge the battery every night, and make liberal use of assist so as to come home with a nearly empty battery.