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Originally Posted by Packrat
For instance, imagine that over time my car learns my commute route and manages the tradeoffs for even better FE. It would allow the battery to discharge more on the way home because pretty much no matter where I go from there it will be flat or downhill where regen is available. There are plenty of other scenarios where such a system could improve FE.
Packrat
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That would be very nice. Or to make it simpler, if we could just tune a couple of parameters in the control software we could adapt the IMA's behavior to different conditions.
But I believe Honda has another agenda in mind. They provide a ten year warranty on the batteries, so they'll do everything possible to extend their life. This means that their logic is heavily averse to draining the batteries too deeply.