I have a 2000 Honda Insight in excellent condition that has never had any problems. It meets my needs perfectly. But I keep hearing about battery problems and I assume that I too will have to replace my battery eventually. My questions are: Is there any way lithium ion batteries could replace my nickel cadmium ones? And is there any way the Insight could be modified to be a plug-in? Honda did not choose to update the Insight in this way. That could have been because it was not technologically feasible or it could also have been because the Insight line was not profitable for them. Has any one ever had the same thoughts and looked into this?

I have never visited any Honda Insight sites before. Watched "Who Killed The Electric Car" yesterday. Cannot help but feel that Honda killed its Insight. Briefly scanning this site I got the impression, perhaps wrongly so, that there were more problems with recent models than earlier models of the Insight.