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Originally Posted by tjts1
You could just ditch the battery pack all together, enjoy the extra trunk space and put a piece of black electric tape over the red light in the dash. Problem solved.
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That's actually not bad advice, if your goal for higher MPG is strictly financial. The payback on a pack rebuild that takes you from ~50 to say ~60 mpg is going to take a long time (may not apply to the super cheap cells -- or subpacks -- you say you found).
I drove my Insight for several thousand kms getting 80+ MPG with the hybrid functions completely disabled. The primary reason I bothered to do my pack refurbishment exercise was out of simple curiosity over how the hybrid system behaves & the fun of learning how best to use it.