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Originally Posted by jamesqf
Tell this to someone who hasn't been driving a 2000 Insight for the last 13 years or so. (And whose other vehicle isn't a 1988 model.) When I first bought it, I could use most of the battery capacity (per the gauge) in hill climbing &c. Now (and despite rebalancing &c every year or so) I can use barely 1/4 of the gauge capacity before the system either recals or throws an IMA fault. Which requires 'maintenance' of a sort: pry out the #18 fuse and wait for a system reset.
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While I see your point, using the Insight's battery as an example of battery wear is going to the extreme (also NiMH vs Lithium). We all know the Insight and Civic hybrid's batteries like to die, but there are plenty of other hybrids that fare much better (my '05 Prius has almost 130k miles on the original battery and my parent's '06 Escape hybrid has about 185k miles on the original battery). Probably the only scenario for an EV battery having a similar lifespan of the Insight's would be the first few model years of the Leaf in a hot place like Phoenix.