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Originally Posted by Delta Flyer
I think the low point is now 40% - not 15% (someone verify please).
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This is consistent with what I've observed in my 03 HCH. It begins charging the IMA off the engine at about the 50% depleted mark (could just as easily be 40% due to display error). Even with some 20 mile long up-hill climbs I've had, it never drained lower that 5-6 bars. At that level, even under modest to more-than-modest accelleration, the IMA did not assist. I almost have to floor it to get an assist. The car seems very protective of the IMA batteries, for lack of a better way to describe it.
