{"id":4110,"date":"2010-11-01T15:39:06","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T07:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/?p=4110"},"modified":"2010-11-01T15:39:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T07:39:06","slug":"honda-is-gearing-up-to-improve-the-insights-fuel-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/honda-is-gearing-up-to-improve-the-insights-fuel-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Honda is gearing up to improve the Insight&#8217;s fuel economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<fb:like \n\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/honda-is-gearing-up-to-improve-the-insights-fuel-economy\/\" \n\t\tlayout=\"button_count\" \n\t\tshow_faces=\"true\" \n\t\twidth=\"450\" \n\t\theight=\"30\"\n\t\taction=\"like\" \n\t\tcolorscheme=\"light\" \n\t\tstyle=\"margin-top:5px;\"\n\t\tclass=\"fb_edge_widget_with_comment fb_iframe_widget\"><\/fb:like>[singlepic id=4202 w=630 h= float=]\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Honda is gearing up in the entry-level hybrid fight to improve the Insight&#8217;s economy. \u00a0The improvements are done by adding stop-start strategy to make it more economical. Changes have meant that that its engine can be switched off for up to three times as long as before.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n[singlepic id=4221 w=630 h= float=]\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n[singlepic id=4222 w=630 h= float=]\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The previous system had been programmed to assume worst-case humidity for obscure patenting reasons &#8211; rain, five people on board, tropical conditions &#8211; and this limited the stop&#8217; duration to only 30sec. Now, it can remain off for up to 90sec in eco mode. The same strategy has also been applied to the Jazz hybrid.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo Gallery: 2010 Honda Insight<\/strong><\/p>\n[nggallery id=165]\n<fb:like \n\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/honda-is-gearing-up-to-improve-the-insights-fuel-economy\/\" \n\t\tlayout=\"button_count\" \n\t\tshow_faces=\"true\" \n\t\twidth=\"450\" \n\t\theight=\"30\"\n\t\taction=\"like\" \n\t\tcolorscheme=\"light\" \n\t\tstyle=\"margin-top:5px;\"\n\t\tclass=\"fb_edge_widget_with_comment fb_iframe_widget\"><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[singlepic id=4202 w=630 h= float=] Honda is gearing up in the entry-level hybrid fight to improve the Insight&#8217;s economy. \u00a0The improvements are done by adding stop-start strategy to make it more economical. Changes have meant that that its engine can be switched off for up to three times as long as before. [singlepic id=4221 w=630 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,62],"tags":[3021,3020,266,269,2638,79,3022,80,3023],"class_list":["post-4110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-honda","category-hybrid","tag-2010-honda-hybrid","tag-2010-honda-insight","tag-electric-vehicle","tag-ev","tag-honda-hybrid","tag-honda-insight","tag-hybrid-cars","tag-insight","tag-insight-hybrid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4110"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4114,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions\/4114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastmotoring.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}