To drive an Hybrid car Indians will not have to wait for longtime because Honda Siel Car is going to launch Civic hybrid in India in 2008 summer.
While attempts to move over to alternative and renewable fuel have been made in India with liquefied petroleum gas, compressed natural gas and bio-diesel powered cars, the Civic hybrid will be the first mass produced hybrid car to hit Indian roads. The idea of Honda is to bring an environment friendly technology to India.
While the chassis and the body of the car are largely unchanged, the hybrid version has a combustion engine integrated with an electric powered motor, which recharges when the car is running. The car automatically shifts between the two sources of power, depending on the requirement and also uses them simultaneously.Civic has a specific breaking system, which recharges the battery every time you use the breaks.
As a result, the car burns less fuel and provides a mileage which is double of the petrol version at around 20 kmpl. Compared with the petrol version which turns out a 130bhp, the hybrid model will give around 110bhp.
price for Honda Civic hybrid will be nearly Rs 20 lakh.
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