Re: Which will make a better used car, IMA cars, or HSD cars?
The question I have is have any of the Honda people actually tried running their cars with a dead IMA battery, or disconnected? I have my doubts about the overall functionality of the car in that case, since a lot of the systems rely on having the HV battery power available, such as the 12v charging system and the autostop/start function it would seem as if the HV battery being dead would cause more problems than you may think.
Another good question is what battery pack will last longer? The Toyotas use a larger battery, and obviously use different program to maintain as well as being rectangular cells instead of the D cells... Hard to know for sure what will last longer, but there's probably going to be a considerable difference and it will be interesting to see how it plays out.
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