What Really Happens When . . . Battery Dies
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What Really Happens When . . . Battery Dies
Saturday | 18 March 2006
Last night, my Honda Insight died.
. . . I was forced to leave the 2000 model year gasoline-electric hybrid just a few hundred yards short of its goal .
. . . this story really begins last Summer when I noticed that the battery pack, which supplies electric assist to the tiny 3-cylinder engine, would deplete too rapidly, though it would gradually recover as I drove the car. Through the Fall and into Winter -- at least according to the instrument display -- there was less and less energy available from the pack, which seldom reached over half the "bars" used to indicate the nickel metal hydride battery pack's state of charge. However, fuel economy didn't appear to suffer unduly, so I dismissed it, though in the back of my mind I began wondering about the pack's "health".
. . .
Last night, my Honda Insight died.
. . . I was forced to leave the 2000 model year gasoline-electric hybrid just a few hundred yards short of its goal .
. . . this story really begins last Summer when I noticed that the battery pack, which supplies electric assist to the tiny 3-cylinder engine, would deplete too rapidly, though it would gradually recover as I drove the car. Through the Fall and into Winter -- at least according to the instrument display -- there was less and less energy available from the pack, which seldom reached over half the "bars" used to indicate the nickel metal hydride battery pack's state of charge. However, fuel economy didn't appear to suffer unduly, so I dismissed it, though in the back of my mind I began wondering about the pack's "health".
. . .
Bob Wilson
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