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Old 05-05-2015, 09:37 AM   #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by sheepdog 44 View Post
The overall experience is good and highway performance is unchanged and possibly better. IT does much better up extended mountain climbs on the freeway. Vtech will kick in, where as with the IMA the battery would discharge halfway up and force regen up the other half making the car feel like a pig.
You might be happier installing a MIMA which would allow you to cut out the IMA for those long climbs, and then drop it back into the mix when you're done with the mountain.

+1 on pig. I have a 1.5 mi. climb on my way home and an IMA light showing, the batt capacity is down to maybe 40% of new. Regen during climbs bites hard. And no, I don't have a MIMA either.
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