Honda Jazz Hybrid

At the Paris Motor Show 2010 Honda Civic Hybrid was introduced as a small car with the assistance of an electric motor and is available since spring 2011 as a new car. Thus, the Honda Jazz joins the ranks to Toyota Yaris Hybrid, Volkswagen Touareg and Mercedes-Benz S400 Hybrid as a small car. The IMA hybrid drive is used in the Insight and CR-Z and the Honda Jazz Hybrid will bring good performance and low fuel consumption. Compared to the Kozernbrüdern the Honda Jazz Hybrid, however, was even more trimmed to profitability. In small cars of the famous 1.3-liter i-VTEC engine with 88 PS is used, which cooperates with a stepless CVT transmission. The powertrain of the Honda Jazz Hybrid the Japanese engineers put under a 10 kW electric motor, which relieves the gasoline engine during acceleration or stops at traffic lights. Loading the batteries of the electric motor in the Honda Jazz Hybrid of energy recovery (regenerative braking) by the motor during braking or driving downhill, is used as a generator. Encouraging the consumption of the small car : on average the Honda Jazz Hybrid is only 3.7 liters of gasoline per 100 kilometers according to factory specifications consume, which means a very good value in this segment.

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