Green Car Reports

MARCH 14, 2014

We do our best though, which is how I''ve come to be the proud owner of a 2001 Honda Insight. Cars are rather expensive objects, so dropping cash on the latest electric vehicle, plug-in hybrid, punchy.' It just isn''t always possible. Let me explain.

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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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Honda Insight Insight 2019 Honda 77

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Electric SUVs were the lowest-ranked category in the latest Consumer Reports reliability rankings, but hybrids and plug-in hybrids were the best.

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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

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

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 92

Green Car Reports

MARCH 20, 2014

If you''ve been reading Green Car Reports over the past week, you might have seen we recently bought a 2001 Honda Insight--an example of one of the first hybrids sold by a major automaker. But what if you want to buy your own early Insight? What do you need to look out for?

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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 110

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 77

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

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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Honda Insight 2001 Insight Honda 135

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We take a broader look at the 2019 Honda Insight. And will electric cars displace hybrid vehicles? 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.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 7, 2012

With four different Prius models and two non-prius hybrids now for sale in the U.S., it’s easy to go straight to a Toyota dealership when you’re looking for a hybrid car.

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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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Green Car Reports

JULY 30, 2019

As choices among hybrid small sedans have expanded, Honda is standing pat with the 2020 Insight. The Insight was introduced in 2019 as a separate model based on the Civic sedan, but with unique sheetmetal, a nicer interior, and the Accord Hybrid's two-motor hybrid drive system.

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Honda Insight Insight 2020 Honda 86

Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 19, 2017

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. 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.

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Honda Insight Insight 2019 Honda 95

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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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Honda is recalling approximately 720,000 vehicles in the U.S.—including including several hybrid models—due to fuel pumps that may crack and leak. The automaker announced that recall Tuesday, noting that 2023-2024 Accord and Accord Hybrid sedans, 2025 Civic and Civic Hybrid sedans, and 2023-2025 CR-V Hybrid crossovers were included.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 28, 2020

A few hours with the 2021 Hyundai Elantra Hybrid earlier this month left me with some wildly conflicting first impressions.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 15, 2015

So it appears to be with the Honda Insight, the subcompact mild hybrid hatchback that the company discontinued after the 2014 model year. DON''T MISS: Honda Ends 3. Green Honda Integrated Motor Assist New car sales mild hybrid sales subcompact'

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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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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

We'll remain in the 21st century this week, with a very rare example of one of GM's early attempts to sell hybrid-electric cars. The first mass-produced hybrid-electric car sold in the United States was the 2000 Honda Insight , joined in the following year by the Toyota Prius.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2022

As the next step in Honda’s electrification strategy in North America, the company will focus on increasing hybrid volume of core models: CR-V, Accord and, in the future, Civic. To make room for these moves, Honda will conclude Insight production in June. Honda Electrified Future.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Honda Motor Co. will begin selling the all-new Insight hybrid ( earlier post ) in Japan on Friday, 6 February, starting at ¥1,890,000 (~US$21,100). The Insight features a newly developed hybrid system including a 1.3-liter liter i-VTEC engine and Honda’s fifth-generation Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) technology.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 15, 2022

Honda confirms a Civic Hybrid. Tesla gets a “do-over” on fixing its Boombox. The Leaf and Niro lineups get refreshed. And California sets its rules for more EVs. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. California this morning officially posted its Proposed Regulation for Advanced Clean Cars II rulemaking.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 28, 2012

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. One is the 2012 Honda Insight, familiar not just for its Prius-like profile but also having been on sale for several years now.

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Honda Insight Prius 2012 Insight 114

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Honda will unveil the Honda Insight Prototype at the 2018 North American International Auto Show in Detroit in January as the precursor to the new third-generation 2019 Honda Insight—an upscale, stylish five-passenger sedan positioned above the Civic in Honda’s passenger car lineup. L/100 km).

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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 82

Green Car Reports

JUNE 20, 2018

We review the 2019 Honda Insight and put the manufacturer's fuel-economy claims to the test. And we take another look at the 2019 Insight with our video review of the hybrid sedan. The NHTSA has banned Autopilot Buddy. Colorado plans to join the 13 California emissions states. All of this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Honda Insight Colorado Insight 2019 71

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 Congress

APRIL 30, 2009

The Honda Insight, launched this month, is outselling its competitors in the hybrid market. Since going on sale on 4 April, 229 Insights have been sold in the UK, ahead of its nearest rival the Toyota Prius (198 units).

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Honda Insight Insight Prius Honda 150

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 Reports

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Honda''s Insight has never enjoyed the success of the Toyota Prius or even Honda''s own Civic Hybrid, and it looks like the writing is now finally on the wall for the budget hybrid hatchback.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2014

Annual sales of the second-generation Honda Insight. Data: Honda. Honda announced that while the US model Insight will be available at dealerships in the US through the end of the year, production of the hybrid will end in summer 2014. of total Honda sales in the US for that year. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 20, 2011

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., So then, why hasn't it for the Honda Insight? 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

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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Honda Insight Insight 2012 Honda 78

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 The top three best-selling hybrids since January are. percent of sales from January through August, and just 1.98

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