Development of the ultra-low-fuel-consumption hybrid car – INSIGHT

✍ Scribed by Koichi Fukuo; Akira Fujimura; Masaaki Saito; Kazuhiko Tsunoda; Shiro Takiguchi

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1009 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0389-4304
• DOI: 10.1016/s0389-4304(00)00099-0

✦ Synopsis

This paper describes the key technologies that achieve high fuel e$ciency in a variety of driving conditions. For the global environment preservation, a vehicle has been developed with the objective of reducing fuel consumption and exhaust CO to half that of Honda's typical low-fuel-consumption car Civic. These new technologies have been developed around a new hybrid power train layout. They include improvement in engine thermal e$ciency, vehicle weight reduction and reduction of aerodynamic drag, resulting in extremely high fuel economy of 35 km/l at 10}15 mode. Also, the exhaust emissions are as low as half of the 2000 Japanese exhaust emission regulation. Consideration was also given to recycling compatibility, crash safety performance, comfortable running and styling to create a highly sophisticated ultra-low-fuel-consumption hybrid car.