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Originally Posted by Delta Flyer
It's come up in forums before - do battery packs in manual transmissions fail faster than the ones in automatics? My answer is: "No, unless you drive it hard". If the 5-speed driver remembers to downshift more during climbs, watch the charge, etc, the battery pack life should be just as long as a hybrid with an automatic. I'd go so far as to add be even more careful if you by the MIMA hack for the Insight - you don't want the charge to dip under 40% and shorten the battery pack life.
The software in the MCM and BCM units are supposed to be improved, so I expect with better hardware and better driving sense, I could go at least 150,000 miles on this set of batteries.
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What do you base your information on? Because if you read the failure threads at IC you will see a WHOLE range of people have failing packs. Batterries are consumable. They Die and will need to be replaced. I do agree with you on mima that they are potentially playing with fire
Here is a look into various batteries
http://www.buchmann.ca/Article9-Page1.asp
Regardless of size, NIMH is a limited battery technology that will fail and has characteristics that once it reaches failure point, it deteriorates fast. This is what we see in alot of complaints. People know their packs are deteriorating before the light.
Here is a poll done on a relitivly OLD newsgroup (old meaning it started up like 4-5 years ago)
Question
Has your battery been replaced?
Responses
Choices Votes%% reply Yes, Once 10 30
Yes, Twice 0 0
No, But I feel the end is near 4 12
No, everything is A.OK I don't forsee a failure 19 57
Even with the small sample of 33 insight owners, 42% have either Had battery failur or believe the end is near.