FYI, Eli of bumble bee batteries is cycling an IMA stick at full charge/discharge at a 20-35 amp load to simulate real world use in a Honda. He has it actively cooled and is going to cycle it til failure. Be interested to see how long it can go.
We know the prius as a taxi has been a great success and we know many Honda IMA systems die due to lack of use. With the limits of the plug I dont think its anything to worry of.
Power on a grid is like economics, the price of money or power when needed. Power is almost always being generated rather its needed or not. Its just diverted to other parts of the grid and many of the plants have some wiggle room to throttle up or down for demand, but demand is constantly increasing and many systems are already at capacity.
