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Honda’s keeping a tight rein on the 2009 Insight hybrid, due to officially drop for the U.S. market in two weeks at the North American International Auto Show . (Honda has cancelled its press conference at the show, but the Insight will still be displayed.)That hasn’t stopped the folks at the Temple of VTEC and Carscoop from getting leaked scans of a Japanese-market brochure, revealing the new Insight’s front, rear and interior details.

Judging by the pictures, the interior is largely unchanged from the Insight Concept that debuted in Paris.

The brochure also shows images of the Japanese-market Insight Modulo, a sportier version of the hybrid featuring a body kit, auxiliary lighting and larger wheels.

According to the scans, the Insight will be available in three trim levels in Japan. There’s also a set of specifications copied below from the “Insightman” website, but they’re unverified.

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With gasoline costs going up to new highs this summer, many car manufacturers are formulating electric cars, most of which will likely make it to the market between 2010 and 2012.  If the skill survives to build electric cars that do as well as today’s gasoline-powered models, their logic says, electric cars must cost less to run.  But is it true?

The increased electrical utilization may come from a less-than-clean electrical plant, for illustration.  An electric car secured into a wall receptacle that gets its power from a coal-burning power plant is fossil-fuel powered car.  It may emit lesser emissions than a gasoline-powered car, but it isn’t need fully a free lunch.

Researchers are backbiting as to whether ethanol-blended fuels are unsuited with common engines. Biofuel retail merchants are refusing arrogates from the Automobile alliance that engines in older cars, lawnmowers and motorboats are at threat of wreck from new fuels.
Fuels mixed with Ethanol are being sold at some Mobil and Gull service stations, but there is a risk that these fuels are incompatible with some engines.
A bill is awaited which has to be passed by the parliament to bring biofuels into the general sale stream. The law says that a fixed percentage of fuels sold should be ethanol based. This result in two common blends biofuel being obtainable: a 3% blend (E3) similar to 91 octanes and a 10 % blend (E10) for advanced octane fuel users. (more…)