Green Car Reports

MARCH 26, 2020

The 2021 Honda Insight hybrid enters the new model year with minor changes, including more safety tech. Gas mileage ratings remain unchanged, at 52 mpg combined (55 mpg city, 49 mpg highway) for all trim levels except the top-level Touring, which is rated at a slightly lower at 48 mpg combined (51 mpg city, 45 mpg highway).

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Green Car Reports

JULY 28, 2014

61 mpg is what I''ve managed so far from the 2001 Honda Insight I bought back in March, over a distance of more than 5,000 miles. That''s the figure everyone will want to know, so that''s the one I''m starting with.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2018

Confident and linear braking performance is provided by an electro-servo brake system, which combines efficient regenerative braking and mechanical (friction) braking. Advanced safety technology.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: The Tesla Model S is named Best Overall vehicle by Consumer Reports, Wanxiang releases a rough timeline for the restart of Fisker Karma production, and the Honda Insight hybrid comes to the end of the road. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 7, 2012

As we’ve pointed out before, however, there are plenty of other great hybrid choices on the market worthy of your attention, cars like the 2012 Honda Insight. With four different Prius models and two non-prius hybrids now for sale in the U.S.,

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

And with poor sales and Toyota's Prius C now on the market as a head-to-head rival, the Honda Insight can definitely consider itself a follower. That's a shame, for those who remember the original Honda Insight. Some lead, others follow.

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Honda Insight Insight Honda 2013 107

Green Car Reports

MARCH 26, 2018

Teased in January as a "concept" without an interior, the production version of the 2019 Honda Insight hybrid sedan has been revealed just before this week's New York auto show.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 28, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: Decoding Toyota''s disdain for electric cars, writer Antony Ingram updates us on his used 2001 Honda Insight, and how to buy a second charging cable for your plug-in electric car. All this and more on Green Car Reports. Catch up on last week''s big stories with our Week in Reverse feature and video.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 20, 2014

run down what you need to know if you want to buy an early Honda Insight, and dig deeper into GM''s new and more fuel-efficient engines. Today on Green CarReports: We drive VW''s first electric car to be sold in the U.S., All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

One of our readers passed along the note recently that it was the 25 year anniversary of the first hybrid car in the United States, the Honda Insight, which arrived in December 1999. Yes, the Toyota Prius came a couple of years earlier in Japan, but it didn’t come to.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 22, 2011

The 2011 Honda Insight is the least expensive hybrid car on sale in the U.S. But despite this distinction, the subcompact hatchback hasn’t been a success for Honda, selling just a fraction of early projections. this year, at a base price of just $18,970 with delivery.

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Honda Insight Insight 2011 Honda 93

Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 19, 2017

A new hybrid car from one of the pioneers of hybrid-electric vehicles is notable, and that's what Honda has delivered. The company said Tuesday morning that it will show a prototype of what will be the 2019 Honda Insight.

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Honda Insight Detroit Insight 2019 113

Green Car Reports

JUNE 28, 2012

One is the 2012 Honda Insight, familiar not just for its Prius-like profile but also having been on sale for several years now. If you're in the market for a brand new hybrid but want to save a few pennies on purchase price, you're really limited to two vehicles.

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Honda Insight Prius 2012 Insight 116

Green Car Reports

JANUARY 17, 2018

It's an interesting and handsome model that revives a familiar name for Honda. The 2019 Honda Insight is a compact premium sedan projected to get an EPA combined rating of 50 mpg or better. The new Insight is Honda's third try at a dedicated hybrid, each of.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 20, 2011

So then, why hasn't it for the Honda Insight? The Toyota Prius is the best-selling hybrid vehicle of all time and recently passed three million sales globally and a million in the U.S., over more than a decade. And when fuel prices rise, so has demand for the Prius and other high-mileage vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 11, 2018

On Thursday, a concept version of what will be the 2019 Honda Insight hybrid sedan was unveiled before its public debut at next week's Detroit auto show. Any new hybrid car from one of the pioneers of hybrid-electric vehicles is notable, and that's what Honda has delivered.

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Honda Insight Insight Detroit Honda 111

Green Car Reports

JANUARY 6, 2013

Now in its fourth year on the market, the 2013 Honda Insight has never quite lived up to the legacy left by its ground-breaking 1999 predecessor--even if it's now a much more usable vehicle. Sales have been much lower than Honda expected, and the Insight remains a niche player in the market.

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Honda Insight Insight 2013 Honda 83

Green Car Reports

JUNE 20, 2018

Last week, we drove the new 2019 Honda Insight sedan and found Honda's newest compact hybrid roomy and comfortable. During our drive around Minneapolis, its exurbs, and into Wisconsin, we wanted to put to the test Honda's claims that its 1.5-liter

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Honda Insight MPG Insight Honda 105

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

That sound you hear isn’t the 2019 Honda Insight’s hybrid powertrain whirring along. It’s the undertaker coming for the vaunted Honda Civic nameplate. The 2019 Insight isn’t just a better hybrid, it’s a better compact car.

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Honda Insight Insight 2019 Honda 96

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

The Honda Fit is still the volume leader from January-July, with 82,592 units total. The Fit was a distant second to Prius in July, with 17,003 units sold, followed by the Toyota Vitz (12,366 units) and the Honda Insight (10,210 units). Almost 10% of these were placed through the scrappage scheme.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2009

Honda’s Insight hybrid was Japan’s 10 th -best-selling new car in February, excluding minicars, according to figures from the Japan Automobile Dealers Association. Honda received more than 15,000 orders for the Insight, which was launched that month.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 11, 2018

Today, we've got more details on the 2019 Honda Insight hybrid, some deep research into where Tesla Model 3 parts come from, an amusing troll by one head of state on another, and a very fast, very pricey all-electric Chevy Corvette. All this and more on Green Car Reports. The two-seat Smart minicar has been on sale in the U.S.

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Honda Insight Insight 2019 Honda 100

Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

required) reports that Honda will end European sales of the CR-Z and Insight hybrids after their numbers consistently failed to meet expectations. Honda sold 1,242 Insight hybrids in Europe last year, down 62 percent from the year before. Sometimes--to quote a famous frog--it''s not easy being green.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

The Honda 2010 Insight hybrid, which made its sales debut in the US in limited quantities on 24 March, posted sales of 569 units through the end of the month. Sales of the Insight in Japan, which began in February, have been brisk, and have helped the automaker weather the slump there.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The end-of-year holiday season is just starting, but the 2019 Honda Insight hybrid that will debut at the Detroit auto show next month has been. Today, a surprise advance look at an important new hybrid model, bad news for global oil and gas, an old Saab as a new electric car, and Tesla gets more Semi orders.

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Honda Insight Insight 2019 Honda 98

Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Although the Honda Insight was eagerly awaited before it launched as a 2010 model, the little hybrid hatchback has never come remotely close to its sales goals. But the company isn't giving up, and the new 2012 Honda Insight features revised front styling, a nicer interior, and improved gas mileage ratings.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We take a broader look at the 2019 Honda Insight. The 2019 Honda Insight. GM works to create an ultra-fast charging system for the Chevrolet Bolt EV. We explain how readers can make themselves heard about the EPA's proposed freeze in fuel economy standards. And will electric cars displace hybrid vehicles?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2009

The Honda Fit took the second spot, with 10,927 units (6%), followed by the Toyota Vitz (8,145, 4.5%) and the Honda Insight (7,900, 4.4%). The Prius posted 21,669 units in Japan in August, up 360% year-on-year, representing 12% of total automobile sales for the month. Overall, total sales were up 8.2%

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Electric Cars are for Girls

MARCH 17, 2011

I get asked this question quite a bit: Why not take a light, aerodynamic hybrid - like a Prius - and convert it into an all-electric car?

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 8, 2012

Two years ago, Honda launched its Insight subcompact hybrid hatchback to high hopes. Regrettably, the company saw its hopes for soaring sales of its mild hybrids dashed, with the Insight selling less than half the projected number--largely because it suffered in comparison to its showroom stablemate, the Honda Fit.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 19, 2018

This 2019 Honda Insight is the third Honda to wear the name and perhaps it’s. The first was a quirky hatchback two-seater that struggled for acceptance with mainstream buyers. The second was a Prius-like Prius fighter, egg shape and all.

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Honda Insight Insight 2019 Honda 73

Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The 2019 Honda Insight hybrid hasn't been on sale for long; and yet Honda is already recalling more than 6,000 of them for a rearview camera failure. The problem affects another 226,000 vehicles—2018 Accord models, possibly including some Accord Hybrids.

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Honda Insight Insight 2019 Honda 78

Green Car Reports

JULY 30, 2019

The 2020 Honda Insight hybrid gets a slight price increase. Tesla's next big software release will bring significant changes to Autopilot. A Canadian company already creates an electric F-150. And we step back and ask if EV conversions matter today. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

For a few years now, hybrid sales have been stalled at 2 to 3 percent of the U.S. But for the first seven months of this year, the total is at the low end of the scale: Hybrids represented 2.06 percent of sales from January through August, and just 1.98 percent of sals in August alone. The top three best-selling hybrids since January are.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 23, 2018

In its latest round of safety tests, the IIHS has awarded the 2019 Honda Insight hybrid its Top Safety Pick+ award. The 2019 Insight aced all of the insurance.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

While the 2011 Chevrolet Volt and Nissan LEAF have stolen most of the green-car limelight of late, and the Toyota Prius continues to be the go-to vehicle for those seeking reliable yet efficient transportation, Honda's Insight continues to plug along, with new upgrades to standard equipment and a less expensive entry-level model for 2011 aimed at.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2009

In April, the Honda Insight had been the top-seller—the first hybrid to be such—with 10,481 units. In May, the Insight dropped to third place with 8,183 units, behind the Prius and the Honda Fit, with 8,859 units. Sales of the Prius in Japan, which edged past US sales in May, were 71.5%

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