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Old 07-13-2006, 01:31 PM
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Default Re: What does GM have to say?

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Originally Posted by AshenGrey
I would think that an EV Civic could have a perfectly long battery life IF it's controller treated 20% as "empty" and 80% as "full", like the hybrid controller does.

you'd be cutting 40% of the battery capacity if you did this. you'd either have to have 40% more batteries to make up the range hit or have a 60mile max range which would probably not be acceptable to most americans.

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