Hi Johnww:

___Anybody who is a AH or IMA fan has been waiting to see all that you have described for more years then you would care to count

___Why the AH fails to shut down at speeds of the Insight or HCH and why those two do not shut down at even higher speeds is an absolute mystery to me given the technology to make this happen with complete safety can be installed for just a few $’s?

___As for the battery, make it much smaller and far less expensive if all it will be used for is assist. In fact, make it just large enough for a few regen based stops to bring it up to full and for IMA starts. I could care less for the assist portion during acceleration until they make it full EV capable as Honda did with a portion of the driving envelope in the HCH-II. Honda did not design that capability properly either

___Place the 06 1.8 L Civic LX/EX ICE with an “IMA Lite” setup and some intake tricks (3 cylinder ECO mode?) for even higher FE and I would have considered an I4 based - Accord Hybrid instead of the one I own now too! Eject the HCH-II’s mechanical A/C altogether while using a slightly more robust all-electric unit should suffice although the larger pack may be needed for the all-electric A/C unit?

___Good Luck

___Wayne R. Gerdes
___Waynegerdes@earthlink.net