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redpoint5 · 11-14-2013, 06:49 PM

If you are handy, you can locate the degraded battery "sticks" and replace only those. Often times, balance charging can also restore some of the degraded pack performance.

Go to Priuschat.com and search for balance charging and stick replacement if you are up for doing the work yourself for a couple hundred bucks.

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