Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
2010 Honda Insight - Jalopnik $19k for a 60 mpg car. How good a deal is that? I drive about...
Daily Tech (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Fuel economy is rumored to be around 71 MPG
Advice Goddess Blog (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Nothing like driving home from Yamashiro at midnight, when nobody's on the road. In a Honda Insight, that is.
eurocarblog (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
While the two cars are more different in the front, but the rear keeps its aerodynamic form, the prototype will not be the third generation Toyota Prius, but its competitor. The Honda Insight, with[...]
Driive (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Spied: 2010 Honda Insight hybrid Despite the popular belief that the Toyota Prius was the first hybrid vehicle sold in the Unites States, the Honda Insight actually holds that title. The Insight was never a sales success, and was eventually discontinued. This time around, Honda is convinced it will have a winner on its hands. Our spies today captured the first ever images of the 2010 Insight, which...
Advice Goddess Blog (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
One reason I drive a hybrid Honda Insight...
Technobabble (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
When you look at the historical chart of hybrid gas mileage , you just have to wonder … when are the auto manufacturers going to take things to the next level? The Honda Insight, the earliest hybrid, was rated at 70 miles per gallon on the highway. Granted it was a wee little two seater with a three cylinder engine, but still … where are the OEM advances? The answer, in short, is that the advances...
Winding Road (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
When Honda debuted its gas-electric hybrid Insight for the American public in 1999, our country was a remarkably differnt place. Fuel prices in the U.S. had been more or less stable for years, rising along with the cost of inflation but not raising many eyebrows in the process. Click through to read more.
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
This year's Tour to the Shore fuel economy competition had the goal of beating the previous record: 75 MPG in a Honda Insight hybrid. That might seem hard to do, unless you are Jack Martin, a member of the Triad Electric Vehicle Association in Burlington and teacher of Sustainable Transportation at Appalachian State University. He squeezed out 124 miles out of one gallon of gasoline in his unmodified...
Science Pal (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Enlarge By Michael Chow for USA TODAY Louis Hudgin of Gilbert, Ariz., squeezes as much mpg as he can get from his 2000 Honda Insight. By Chris Woodyard , USA TODAY GILBERT, Ariz. — After a 29-mile jaunt from his Phoenix office to his home here, Louis Hudgin proclaimed his gas mileage "pitiful." He averaged just 88.3 miles per gallon. MAXIMIZING MPG: What experts think of hypermiler techniques TELL...
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Hybrid , Green Daily Last year, we discovered quite a few interesting green car advocates at Hybridfest in Madison, Wisconsin: a hypermiling Honda Insight driver , someone with a 100mpg+ Prius , and a Hobbit . This year, fans of the gas-electric powertrains will be returning to one of the Midweat's hippest little cities to share their love of their rides now that gas costs...
Leftlane (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Honda’s Insight was the first hybrid to hit the U.S. market in 1999, but the tiny hatchback ceased production in 2006 due to practicality issues. However, a new report indicates that there is a good possibility that Honda will revive the Insight nameplate for its all-new Prius-rivaling model. In addition to recycling the Insight name, [...]
Advice Goddess Blog (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
I was driving my tiny, 1900 lb. Honda Insight Hybrid down Lincoln Boulevard in Santa Monica when I changed lanes...
AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Filed under: Hybrid , Honda , Toyota , Green Daily , USA Rendering of the Chevy Volt battery pack As hybrid models such as the original Toyota Prius and Honda Insight get older, consumers are beginning to wonder how much it will cost them if the battery eventually fails. It's a reasonable concern as those batteries can be quite expensive to replace. According to an article on Newsweek, though, that...
Gobal free gas (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Hybrid Vehicle: When Cruising Downhill, Charge Your Batteries For The Uphills I saw Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, and went right out and bought a used Honda Insight (66 mpg). I know my energy-conserving car makes a negligible dent in global warming. My father would have called my p...
