What ever happened to the D-Cell battery pack idea?

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    I was reading this old thread.
    Prius Battery Information | PriusChat
    if it’s true, I wonder what ever became of the idea.

    “have you seen the replacement bats from china ? - instead of 28 packs, you have only 14, they take nimh D cells? to make a block of 12 of them to give the same voltage and amps of the parametric grid oem's -- so instead of 28 slises u have 14 to simplify things and much better looking connectors”
     
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    newpriusbatteries

    CEBA
     
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    2k1Toaster has 6000 posts related to the d cell pack that he sells.
     
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    Prius started with a D-Cell pack. In fact, that battery difference is how Gen-0 was defined (the Japan-only model). When rollout happened in the United States, we got the upgrade to prismatic packaging... hence Gen-1.
     
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