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Originally Posted by rmay635703
It’s unfortunate mechanisms to enable any hybrid to run battery free don’t exist
I would think a 12v starter and some ecm programming would be all you need.
2009 and down Prius can run with a failed battery anywhere but only if they can get started into limp mode.
My 1999 Insight hasn’t had a working big battery in a decade, that is how every hybrid should be.
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Well, if they did that, Toyota would lose that $6,000 battery replacement that I'm about ready to need.
There's a lot of things I dislike about Tesla, but at least there's reason to believe that you could potentially keep using the original battery long past 200k miles or 15 years, and not 150,000 miles and 10 years.