In spite of superior engineering, Honda hybrids have never posed a serious threat to the Toyota Prius. In 1999, the original Honda Insight hybrid beat the Prius to the U.S. market by a few months with a small motor-generator attached to its three-cylinder gas engine?s crankshaft. Accord hybrids sold for the 2014 and 2015 model years had a 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine and two motor-generators capable of providing electric-only, gas-only, or mixed gas and electric propulsion with no need for efficiency-sapping gearchanges. READ MORE ??
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