Nx 300H Test Drive By An Is Owner

[ColinBarber]

I thought the Prius plug in was lithium ion

Yes, along with European Prius + but not their mainstream vehicles. The number of Prius plugins wouldn't cause an issue for their brand reliability and they are using them as a long term test. Toyota still feel they can charge their hybrid batteries faster than Lithium, which is why they are sticking with them for the next gen Prius.

[ganzoom]

Toyota still feel they can charge their hybrid batteries faster than Lithium, which is why they are sticking with them for the next gen Prius.

My Leaf can charge at 50KW, a Model S at 120KW, and Porsche is claiming 200-300KW on their Misson E, to put that into context a kettles uses just 3 KW when boiling water. If you could stick the 1.5 kWh Battery pack on the IS300H to a Tesla supercharger, it'll be fully recharged in under 60 seconds...

BMW and Nissan both offer 8 year, 100,000 mile warranty on their batteries, Tesla 8 year and unlimited miles. If NiHm batteries are so much better, all these companies must be getting ready for massive warranty bill....But actually your struggle to find a handful of reports of Battery packs suffering bad degredation early. Instead Nissan have just INCREASED their warranty cover, it was 5 years and 60,000 miles. The development guys at Toyota and Nissan clearly have very different ideas about Battery technology ;)

I'm glad Toyota has stuck to NiHm Battery in the next Prius, because if means there isn't likely to be a Lithium ion IS hybrid for another 8 years +, which means our current IS300H at least wouldn't become 'out dated' :)

[rayaans]

I've got to say the Car magazine report on the RX was pretty **** in all honesty. Why do they expect it to "thrill"