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Honda Shows off New Insight hybrid at Paris Auto Show

Honda unveiled an “affordable” hybrid family car at the Paris Motor Show on Thursday to challenge the success of rival Toyota Motor (TM).
Honda described the white car which it showed off for the first time in Paris as a concept version of the production model that will be unveiled in January.
Honda Motor (HMC) CEO Takeo [...]

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Honda’s Insight Hybrid Will Take On Prius

Global auto makers are rushing to challenge the dominance of Toyota Motor Corp.’s Prius hybrid with a slew of ecofriendly vehicles. But Honda Motor Co. is likely to pose the most formidable threat to Toyota when it unveils its new Insight hybrid car Thursday at the Paris Auto Show.
Honda is betting that the five-passenger hatchback, [...]

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Honda Eyes Hybrid Cars Expansion in Europe

Honda Motor is counting on hybrid cars and the soaring Russian market to enter its next phase of expansion in Europe, where an economic slowdown in Western Europe is hurting sales more than expected, an executive said.
Japan’s number two carmaker sold a record 376,477 cars in Europe last year - a rise of 22 per [...]

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The Volt Isn’t A Prius. It Might Even Be Better

The Chevrolet Volt and Toyota Prius look a lot alike, but they are fundamentally different cars that blaze separate paths toward the inevitable electrification of the automobile. And while the Prius is the world’s most-popular hybrid and the poster child for green(er) motoring, the Volt is more technologically advanced.
The Prius, like the Honda Civic Hybrid [...]

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Honda Aims to Avoid Plug-In Hybrids (PHEV)

While the folks at GM celebrate the advent of the 2011 Chevrolet Volt, those at Honda aren’t rushing to create a plug-in hybrid of their own.
Masaaki Kato, president of Honda’s Research & Development unit, tells Bloomberg that today’s batteries aren’t quite ready for a plug-in application.
“For battery-powered vehicles to become more widespread,” Kato said, “we [...]

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