Of all large automobile manufacturers that are known internationally none sound quite as aggressive as Honda. Yet beyond even Toyota nobody is more purchased and used by sunday driver’s or paced start driver’s as Honda. If you don’t know standard hybrid vehicles don’t do well jumping off the line from stopped to running. They are guaged to be optimally driven at about 40MPH (ca.60KPH) and not 60 MPH (100 KPH) like gasoline engines. They also aren’t designed to promote consistent running, but are made for the average in town commute. That being said, it would be sales fortuitous for the average car manufacturer to do research into a way for hybrid vehicles to use up less gasoline on a quick acceleration from 0-25MPH.
(The one in back is probably a honda)
Why did this come up in a discussion about Honda vehicles? Technically the largest hybrid producing vehicle manufacturer is Toyota, and second is Honda; however, I am not counting PHEV’s (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles), which discredits Mazda. PHEV’s are very different as they can use electric at lower speeds and gas at higher speeds and carry around two drive trains for way more to go wrong. Additionally, I am considering the level of fuel consumption increase that Toyota reports from 0-25 MPH as opposed to Honda. This might skew my perspective, but it’s my blog, and thereby entirely open to my perspective. I live in the Bay Area of California, which is riddled with traffic lights (not in a bad way) due to the high population. Honda produces mostly standard hybrid vehicles, which if you don’t mind creeping up to speed and creeping down to a halt like you are driving in emergency conditions of snow is fantastic. If you want to come to quick halt or start up with all of the gasoline vehicles surrounding you then forget getting even close to the expected fuel efficiency.
Another thing about Honda is for most of their engines it’s critical to remember that you change your timing belt every 75,000-100,000 miles. If you don’t you could end up with a brick of a vehicle. I will also say that since the partnership of Honda and GM in 2017 the consumer reviews have gone significantly down from the expected performance. They used to be close to Toyota as far as quality, but it seems that they have promoted their bottom line as a priority. This should keep the costs of their vehicles lower upfront, and like Nissan, Subaru, or Kia be more inexpensive if Toyota is unable to keep their costs down; however, due to supply and demand as Tesla showed over the last decade you don’t always get what you pay for, but you pay what the manufacturer can charge. I want to get into the need for competition that should have forced Tesla to make competing companies before this time, but I won’t go further down that rabbit hole.
Honda is hyper-focused since 2022 on production of Electric vehicles now, which while many of them have beat gasoline acceleration I wonder what kind of unnecessary electrical usage that may be involved for future Honda vehicles to keep their get up and go more like get up and find my cane.
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