Hitch Rack and Battery Drop?

[ChasingCoral]

"I swear to god, this has never happened to my BEV before!"

The car used to get it up really high right away. Unfortunately, with time, it just gets lower and lower.

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[Coffs]

Are you sure those use NiCD batteries? I thought earlier hybrids usually used NiMH, which weren't as susceptible to the memory effect NiCD batteries were known for.

NiCD would form crystal like structures internally if the battery wasn't fully depleted so if you always went to 50% or so then charged over time the crystals build up effectively cutting off capacity so the 'memory' was a reduced capacity, it said 100% when full but at 50% (in this example) it would go 50% then empty.