From the Motor Show 2010 in Paris is just around the corner, Honda has launched a new series of photos and details a little more in its new hybrid version of the Jazz, which is called adjustment in the U.S. and other markers.
The smallest member of Honda's gasoline-electric hybrid family has the same parallel IMA hybrid system found in the Insight, which combines a 1.3-liter engine with an electric motor of 10 KW. The system allows the car to work with one engine, the engine and the engine or the electric motor at low speeds means.
In the hybrid of jazz, the IMA battery and power control unit are stored in the trunk floor, keeping the normal boot (above ground) space of 300 liters, while also allowing the car called "Magic Seats "Sometimes in the same way as non-hybrid version to provide a boot volume of 831 liters.
Honda Jazz hybrid, said the new figure returns a combined fuel consumption of 4.4 l/100 km [53.5 miles per U.S. gallon] in the European cycle. This is the same as the Insight and a little better than European variants of the Civic Hybrid (4.6 lt/100km) and CR-Z 2 +2 (5.0lt/100km).
But hybrid Jazz has CO2 emissions of 104 g / km, which is slightly higher than the Insight is 101g/km. Honda claims it's because jazz is "the form of flexibility, the more concentrated."
The Japanese automaker said that the Jazz hybrid will go on sale in some European markets in early 2011, with prices, certified emission levels and full specifications will be announced in "due course". Currently, there are no plans to offer hybrid Jazz in North America.
