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The hybrid battery in a non-plugin hybrid typically has a very low capacity, so there isn’t much to charge. The Insight has just 0.6 kWh capacity.
Furthermore, it tends to keep it 60-75 % full. As around that charge level it hardly suffers from high charging and discharging currents. The ions in the cells easily find gaps to move to. It can literally take hundreds of thousands of small high current charges and discharges without losing capacity, whereas two thousand full charges and discharges would kill it.
I tried to support it with a buddy pack, but it fights the help with a vengeance. Version 2 of my pack has more controls in it, but I haven’t had the opportunity or lack of laziness yet to build that yet.
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2011 Honda Insight + HID, LEDs, tiny PV panel, extra brake pad return springs, neutral wheel alignment, 44/42 PSI (air), PHEV light (inop), tightened wheel nut.
  lifetime FE over 0.2 Gigameter or 0.13 Megamile.
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