2010 Honda Insight Hybrid – Honda Motor Co. selling the 2010 Honda Insight hybrid in Japan starting at ¥1,890,000 (~US$21,100)-the cheapest hybrid cars. The 2010 Honda Insight hybrid utilizing the fifth generation of Honda’s Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) hybrid technology and new, more cost-efficient production methods, the 2010 Honda Insight hybrid offers an estimated EPA city/highway/combined fuel-economy rating of 40/43/41 miles per gallon US. Honda projects that the 2010 Honda Insight Hybrid will carry a CARB AT-PZEV emission rating.
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Evoking the aerodynamic five-door sedan design first deployed on the FCX Clarity fuel cell car, the new 2010 Honda Insight Hybrid has a low center of gravity and seats five.
2010 Honda Insight Hybrid combines a 1.3-liter SOHC aluminum-alloy i-VTEC engine and CVT, with a new generation of Honda’s IMA hybrid system. The Insight’s IMA system includes a 10 kW (13 hp) electric motor that delivers 68 lb-ft (92 Nm) of torque and a compact Intelligent Power Unit (IPU) consisting of a 5.75 Ah, 100.8V NiMH battery pack, Power Control Unit (PCU), motor Electric Control Unit (ECU), and cooling system.
Combined output and overall torque of the engine and motor is 98 hp (73 kW) @ 5,800 rpm, with max torque of 123 lb-ft (167 Nm) @ 1,000-1,500 rpm.To further support fuel-efficient driving, the Insight features the Ecological Drive Assist System (Eco Assist) as standard equipment on all models.
The strength of the Insight is the value it brings because of its pricing. And as the cheapest hybrid, Honda may take over the hybrid car market.
The 2010 Honda Insight Hybrid car made its world debut at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January and goes on sale in the US in April 2009.
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форд эскейп гибрид блок ipu 300a Integrated Motor Assist or IMA is Honda’s hybrid auto technology, released in 1999 on the Honda Insight. It’s a particular implementation of the parallel hybrid car. This utilizes an electrical motor installed between the Internal Combustion Engine and also transmission to behave like an engine balancer, starter motor, and also aid grip motor. In the first generation, IMA couldn’t power the vehicle on electrical energy entirely, and might only utilize the motor to help or start the actual engine.
Integrated Motor Assist History
Integrated Motor Assist
The 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid, nevertheless, can activate the electrical motor even though the auto is coasting with out turning the internal combustion engine along, although contrary to Toyota’s Hybrid Synergy Drive or perhaps GM and also DaimlerChrysler’s Global Hybrid Cooperation, the Integrated Motor Assist features a to a lesser extent powerful motor generator that allows the vehicle to be able to slow or stop it’s charge per unit associated with deceleration to a lesser extent; it wouldn’t operate on without having turning on the engine which can be straight linked to it’s electric motor.
The idea behind IMA is to apply regenerative braking to be able to recapture a few of the energy missed through deceleration, and also reprocess which energy later to aid speed up the automobile. This has 2 effects: it increases the pace of speedup, plus it reduces the work required from the gasoline engine. The speedup rise is very important because it enables the engine being scaled as a result of a smaller but to a greater extent fuel efficient variant without having rendition the automobile excessively slow or even weak. This smaller engine will be the primary reason vehicles built with IMA improve highway fuel consumption rate than their more traditional counterparts.
Additionally, automobiles built with IMA can shut off their own engine if the auto stops and use the electrical motor to be able to quickly spin it back up once the driver emits the brake foot pedal. There is also a standard starter like a backup, which makes it the only output hybrid system which could operate using its high voltage electric system disabled, only using it’s engine just like a conventional vehicle. Nevertheless, because the IMA also works since the automobile’s alternator, finally the 12 Volt accessory assault and battery might require another charge.
Coming from 1999 to 2006, Honda Insight relied on Integrated Motor Assist system from Honda. The Integrated Motor Assist system assisted the electrical motor to perform start and stop sequences using the accelerator engine throughout sealed driving weather condition. This technique besides kept the hybrid battery charged aside turn the engine in to a generator.
The Honda Hybrid still utilizes the Integrated Motor Assist system; however it experienced a couple of improvements which are based in the up-to-date model. The Honda Insight can perform 40 miles per gallon in the city and also 43 mpg on the highway. The combined fuel consumption rate is 41 mpg.
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integreated motor assist This is good news for hybrids lover. According to Insurance Institute for Highway Safety or IIHS which announced the Toyota Prius and Honda Insight to get Top Safety Pick award based on front, side, and rear crash testing. This award makes a clear statement that hybrids not just fuel efficient but can also get high level of safety too.
Toyota Prius on all its model and Honda Insight on the Insight EX and LX models has requirements to earn the IIHS Top Safety Pick award. Prius and Insight has good ratings in ratings in all three tests (front, side, and rear crash testing) and offer electronic stability control too.
The Toyota Prius Hybrid has an average efficiency rating of 51 mpg, this rating make it as the most fuel efficient vehicle on the market today. The Honda Insight has a combined city and highway rating of 41 mpg.
The IIHS’s side test simulates a crash with a pickup truck or SUV going at 31 mph. The frontal test they use vehicle that have same weight as the test car and moving at 0 mph. The insurance group also simulates a stationary vehicle being rear-ended by a car moving at 20 mph. The test result tell us that the side crash test results apply no matter what size cars we are comparing, but in the front crash test results are meaningful only when you using the same weight comparing models.
In the Honda Insight’s front crash test, the side curtain air bag prevented the dummy’s head from any hitting structures, although there was a risk of rib fractures in the side impact test – but the risk is slightly. In the Toyota Prius’s frontal test, the driver’s head hit the pillar (but the impact was relatively low) between the back and the front windows. The driver dummy’s head suffered slightly more on an impact when the car hit the steering wheel though the air bag.
The video of 2009 Toyota Prius crash test
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top safety pick insight Honda CR-Z Hybrid Coupe: Hybrid of the most vilified in the market today is the Honda CR-Z Hybrid Coupe. It came into false hope. Take a look at the design sporty coupe, and you may expect to be fast car skylark. The people who complain most about the Honda CR-Z Hybrid Coupe as if it were a kind of personal attack against their world view to say the same old thing again and again: “It’s nor fast enough, or enough fuel efficient.”
But they see the wrong signal to understand the car, and thus lost its attraction and benefits of the Honda CR-Z Hybrid Coupe, which we found again after a few days longer to drive six-speed manual version last week. You should see the price tag, and the three driving modes.
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