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At one point this push for efficiency lead to insufficient charging. And there really was little to no charging except when decelerating in gear. And in the US, so many drivers dont lift and coast. Its gas/brake/gas/brake/complain about poor MPG/gas/brake. lol.
Anyhooo, batteries were not lasting very long so there was a service change where at every oil change they would also swap the battery. And you think, this should be a trivial software update to force the system to charge more, but there was an excuse I recall hearing: it was "related to braking logic and would require the full round of crash/saftey testing/blah"
I would also like to know the actual charge state/logic on newer/current cars.
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