Honda to launch Fit hybrid in 2010: Nikkei report - International Business Times -

"Honda Motor Co. will respond to growing demand for by hybrid cars by launching its hybrid Fit vehicle in the fall of 2010, 18 months sooner than previously announced, Japanese newspaper Nikkei said today without citing sources."

 

that's great, but where are going to throw away all the dead batteries again?

 

Why, in the same place we put all those used up compact fluorescent (CFL) light bulbs. They contain mercury, dontcha know?

Aside: I contacted my local electric provider about proper disposal of CFL bulbs. No one there had any idea that they contain mercury and shouldn't be put in the trash. The only thing they could tell me to do was to contact a local mechanical contractor whom they have out replacing home A/C thermostats, since the thermostats also contain mercury and "he's got to be disposing of them in some way"...

Aside, aside: Don't you just love the sign on the warm air hand dryer saying that "we have installed pollution free warm air dryers"? I'm guessing that the electricity they use comes from some sort of quantum battery that stores lightning strikes, or some such.

 

I'll believe it when I see it on the road.

 

It should be no real effort to Hybridize the Fit as the Insight hybrid is built on a Fit chassis.

 

i wonder how many mpg it will get? Im getting 40+ mpg right now which i think is way nice considering its not a hybrid!