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Originally Posted by IamIan
Of course can go as high as one wishes , they make lots of very power electric motors .. just a personal preference thing.
Just for comparison/perceptive:
At near ~OEM Weight .. 30kw continuous (with no wind) can hold constant speed up a ~30% (~17deg) slope at ~60MPH.
The OEM Insight ICE+IMA combined .. (any gear you like) .. doesn't get above 30kw output (even in rich with 100% max IMA Assist) , until you are over about ~2,500 RPMs .. and without IMA Assist the OEM ICE alone , even in rich burn and V-Tech doesn't get above ~30kw output until up near ~3,500 RPMs.
If you have a OBDII device you can data log with .. Like an OBDII-C&C + Laptop .. you can log your RPM usage window .. and of course each person's route / conditions / methods will vary .. but when I logged this for myself in my Insight for a year , I got .. I used a peak of over ~2k RPM only ~36.8% of the time (about ~25kw Max ICE+Max IMA Assist) .. and only used a peak over ~3k RPMs ~0.003% of the time (about ~36kw Max ICE and Max IMA Assist) .. soo , it would be ok for my usage pattern .. of course YMMV.
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It's not part of my every day drive, but there are plenty of "normal routes" where I live, in which I'm at 3500-4000rpm with assist to maintain 40mph. 3rd gear is simply too tall to climb many of the "hills" around here, many of which take 5-10 minutes to climb.