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Electricity Shortage.(Honda Insight sees low sales in Hawaii)(Brief Article)

Hawaii Business, November, 2000 by Choo, David K.

The promising Insight, Honda's gas sipping and ultra-low emission hybrid car, has yet to capture the hearts of island drivers.

You would think that a car that gets 70 miles per gallon and has emissions similar to that of a Bunsen burner would be the perfect car for Honolulu, a city that prides itself in the quality of its environment and has monumental gridlock. Well, think again.

Introduced earlier this spring, Honda's revolutionary Insight, an electric hybrid car, combines a small, clean-burning gasoline engine with an electric motor and gets an astounding 61 miles per gallon (mpg) in the city and 70 mpg on the highway. Requiring no further maintenance than a conventionally powered car and resembling the automaker's long-gone CRX with an aerodynamic...

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