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Old 05-17-2021, 10:27 AM   #18 (permalink)
elhigh
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Originally Posted by JSH View Post
What year was your Civic Hybrid? I know they had issued with the first gen with NiMH batteries. There was a class action settlement for the issue. I haven't heard of any issues with the Li-Ion hybrids.
Mine was '03, first-gen HCH. I got it used so no class action settlement was going to reach me. It had a manual and was an absolute camel on long highway trips, I had a few tanks go over 700 miles between fills. I concluded early on that people complaining about low fuel economy results in the HCH were driving it wrong.

Going up the Blue Ridge Parkway the car hit a sweet spot that saw the fuel mileage computer climb past 60mpg and just keep going - I had made NO fuel economy mods to the car.
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