Once More: Honda to Debut Two More Hybrids in 2010
Honda has confirmed, that it will produce the Honda CR-Z and Honda Fit Hybrid for calendar year 2010, both of which will use Honda’s Integrated Motor Assist system. This news follows other reports that have said essentially the same thing since as early as 2007 when we first reported on it. The only actual news with the flurry of blog reports is the 2010 year being attached.
The CR-Z, which debuted as a concept car at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show, is a sporty hybrid and successor to the CR-X, while the Fit Hybrid will obviously be a hybrid version of the popular compact car. Both vehicles will hit the world market before the end of 2010, with the CR-Z getting out the door first.
Honda kept the announcement short and sweet, likely because it isn’t all that surprising. We await more information on both vehicles, possibly at the Tokyo Motor Show in October.
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instead of introducing all of these hybrids, Honda should develop a real hybrid system to compete with Toyota's system. the system they have now is just a more expensive and moderately more complex and powerful mild hybrid system. this system is partly what made the Insight a no-go compared to the new Prius and even the Fit, Carolla, and Civic.
I agree with JM and I'm a little surprised Honda are going this way. Were they not the first company to come up with a hybrid.
Richard,
The first hybrid was designed by Ferdinand Porsche, around 1900. It had electric motors incorporated into the wheel hubs and the electricity came from a small gasoline engine running a generator. A hybrid truck that ran on gasoline or electricity was manufactured in in the U.S. and sold until about 1940. GM had designs for a hybrid car in the 1960s, but didn't pursue the idea. The first in the modern wave of hybrids was the Toyota Prius, introduced in Japan in the 1990s, before Honda introduced the Insight. However, people mistakenly think Honda was first because it beat Toyota to the U.S. market by a year. The original Insight sold fewer than 10,000 copies around the world before they pulled it off the market.
Oops, I meant to say "fewer than 20,000.." not 10,000.