tha batteries get charged everytime you use the brakes. The life span of them though isn't known. I have heard somewhere that every ten years they need maintainance. I don't know about the life span, but i was talking of the autonomy of the batteries. The actual CR-Z electric motor only holds 20kms...

Wasn't there word of a Cr-Z type-R with the same 1.5 engine pulling 100 bhp or more per litre? Got my hopes on that one... sounds VTEC-ie :mrgreen: . I read a bullshit car magazine with a "CR-Z Type-R" in it. Really it was a standard CR-Z that they had photoshopped really really badly to ...