I experience the "samba" whenever I lighten my foot just before it slips into EV glide...I like it because when in EV the car starts to slow down, but when the iFCD is pegged at zero, I can maintain the speed and still reap the rewards of high mpgs.

As for the drain on the battery, I experience this often when I first turn on the A/C. I don't use my brakes much, so if I don't give the car an opportunity to recharge the battery, the A/C and the Assist seem to eventually drain it. Then it recharges and it's back to 6 bars. I've been trying to be more aware of the SoC and allow the car to "trickle" charge while I'm driving, especially down hill. I used to coast down hills with no regen bars at all, but now I try to have one or two just to throw something back into the battery.

 

Jess
Do an experiment- drive with your headlights on and see if there is any difference. With Insight and HCH1 it will always attempt to recharge if Assist isn't used. It would be interesting if HCH2 did the same.

-Steve

 

I also am having the frequent battery recalibration thing going on now. Mine seems to occur (almost) every day now when I first start my commute home. Typically, it's 95 outside, and the car's been sitting out in the sun for 5 hours or more. So it's HOT inside. It typically discharges the battery when I'm stopped, at about 2-3 minutes into my commute. So I thought it had something to do with the hot interior (& battery), combined with using the AC. Today, though, it happened a good 8 minutes into my evening commute, and while the car was travelling at about 20 MPH. The interior had already cooled down. I've never noticed that before.
I got 47 MPG (about my avg) on my last tank (filled up this morning), but it felt like more of a struggle than usual to get it, and I HAD recently been getting tanks closer to 50 MPG. What's going on?

 

I don't get battery recalibration much at all. Wondering if it has to due with low assist & A/C use, and keeping the battery at high SoC most of the time. Car has ~44000 miles.

 

I have found it much more efficient to use Auto A/C than regular A/C. It seems to have less affect on the battery and the engine. My FE is not really impacted by it and I can keep it at 79 and still be very comfortable.

Since using it I haven't had my battery drained like it was using regular A/C. I highly recommend it.