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More Honda Hybrid Vehicles, Including the Insight

Posted on 18. Apr, 2009 by Mark Coleman in Hybrid Cars

Go save the environment! This is one of the most frequent mottos, but the responsible use of the planet’s energy sources is far from being achieved. Car manufacturers have also adopted this “healthy” attitude and most of them have already got involved in green adjustment processes. One of these elements that makes car manufacturers green is that they have adjusted the old models and made new models which are more economic. Thus the hybrid vehicle has become a sort of main goal for many car makers, among which Honda has a top position. Honda has invented a number of hybrid Honda cars. Along the years Honda has brought us different variants of hybrid Honda vehicles like the Honda Insight, the Hybrid Honda Accord and others.

This company will revive its Insight hybrid which is actually its “Prius fighter”, at the Paris motor show this October. This five-seated hybrid Honda design, takes its styling cues from the 2007 Honda FCX Clarity which is car powered by hydrogen fuel cells. According to Honda officials the new Insight hybrid Honda will be cheaper than those of the competitors, owing to the improvements and cost savings made possible through the company’s Integrated Motor Assist hybrid-drive system (IMA). Thus, if the initial Insight hybrid Honda produced between 1999 and 2006 was $50,000, the new hybrid Honda will come for a price between $30,000 and $35,000.

The specificity of the IMA system in the hybrid Honda innovation is the location of the electric engine between the internal combustion engine and the transmission train. Placed in this position, the IMA in the new hybrid Honda plays the role of a starter-motor and engine balancer, also helping the gas engine when in the acceleration mode. The hybrid Honda under discussion here includes technology that allows a very fuel efficient driving. This is obvious a gauge-read-out which shows real-time fuel consume. This gauge in the new hybrid Honda also recommends the best way to make the top number of km out of a tank fuel.

The goal set by the producer consists in selling no less than 500,000 hybrid cars every year. The price of the new hybrid Honda and its presence on the market for selling, though not discussed for Australia yet, has already been set for North America. Honda is speaking with a high degree of confidence about their new hybrid Honda, insisting on the advantages it will have on the market, due to the new stage it represents in the evolution of hybrid technology. The important benefit available with the new hybrid Honda comes from the combination of the more cost-efficient Integrated Motor Assist hybrid technology and the higher level of price accessibility which will definitely impress more customers all over the world.