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Check out this official footage of the Honda CR-Z Hybrid Coupe. Who says sports cars can’t be clean, green and mean? The Honda CR-Z is expected to make its European debut at the Geneva Motor Show in March and hit UK showrooms by summer 2010. Make sure you visit www.which.co.uk for the most extensive and unbiased road test review of the Honda CR-Z Hybrid Coupe.
Honda Promises Plug-Ins and EVs by 2012
Honda finally comes to the table with an EV, but it’s still betting hydrogen is the future.
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Honda develops hybrids
Honda is hard at work developing an all-new hybrid drive system that will go into large cars and sport-utility vehicles within the next two years.[...]
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CHECK OUT FULL PARIS MOTOR SHOW COVERAGE AT: www.insideline.com TORRANCE, California — Honda on Thursday lifted the veil of secrecy surrounding its new Prius fighter, saying the compact five-door hatchback — christened the Insight — will make its debut on October 2 at the 2008 Paris Auto Show. Honda said the Insight, which will undercut the price of the Toyota Prius, will go on sale in the US next spring. The new Honda Insight is expected to be priced from under $20000 and is the first vehicle in Honda’s ambitious hybrid strategy. In comparison, the 2009 Toyota Prius starts at $22660, including a $660 destination charge. Honda plans to roll out four new gas-electric models over the next four years as part of a broad global strategy to boost hybrid sales to 500000 units by 2012 — which would represent more than 10 percent of its total worldwide annual automobile sales. “Following the launch of the new Insight, Honda also plans to introduce another unique sporty hybrid vehicle based on the CR-Z, first shown at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show,” the automaker said in a statement. Also in the pipeline is a replacement for the current Civic Hybrid, which is due out in late 2010, and a new hybrid edition of the Honda Fit in 2012. The new Insight is a major leap from the original Insight, a cramped 70-mpg two-seater subcompact that was introduced in December 1999 as America’s first gas-Electric Hybrid Car. Honda took pains in its Thursday announcement to describe the new Insight as …
Electric cars look like conventional cars aesthetically, both when it comes to exterior and interior. The same great and pretty designs are available, and friends and family will hardly be able to tell the difference. Electric cars and hybrid electric cars offer the lowest emissions available, with hybrid vehicles being the most practical. If emissions performance are an important environmental consideration, reconsider one of the Hybrid Cars. Electric- powered cars have many negatives and hydrogen- powered cars will take some time to hit our markets and so the best option we have today, to play a part in controlling greenhouse gas emissions, is to choose a hybrid car over other cars in future.
Electric and hybrid cars are becoming more popular given the cost of a tank of gas. Work by nanotech companies such as Altair Nanotechnologies and A123Systems to improve the performance of lithium ion batteries may make electric cars even more appealing.
Toyota’s experimental hybrids will simply add a second nickel metal battery. Even the shops that are converting hybrids to plug-in hybrids welcomed the news about Toyota’s new test cars. Toyota began selling the Prius in the United States, in limited numbers, two years ago, and there are now about 39,000 on American roads. Worldwide, the company hopes to sell 300,000 hybrids annually within five years.
Honda also makes a hybrid Civic? regular car.”. Honda was the first automaker in the world to market a fuel-cell-powered car. Its latest development is the FCX Concept, a next-generation vehicle that boasts a small yet highly efficient FC system. Honda has not be able to compete with the Big T in hybrid sales. One of the mistakes that Honda made with its hybrid cars is making them look just like their traditional car models.
Honda hybrid cars are also making waves with its Honda Civic hybrids. Hybrid Civic cars are georgeous yet efficient, too. Honda only sold 55,300 hybrid cars (globally) last year (Toyota managed 429,000). The most common hybrid car is the Toyota Prius with worldwide sales of around 1.25 million in total.
Currently, GM is finalizing its own hybrid technology, as is Nissan. Nonetheless, Nissan will lease hybrid technology from Toyota for its upcoming Altima hybrid . Currently nearly ever major manufacturer in the world has serious plans to release new lines of hybrid cars. Whilst not all of them are betting their future on hybrid technology, most realise that in these days of increased fuel prices and better environmental knowledge consumers are looking for alternatives to gas-guzzling petrol vehicles.
After all, the question is still stands, should you have a Toyota, Honda, GM, or some other type of hybrid cars?
Hilal Abdelwali, Ph.D. in Automotive Engineering. SAE Member. Expert in Hybrid Cars
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