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CH AP TER 7 .1 Hybrid vehicle design

Fig. 7.1-16 Honda Insight hybrid: (a) aerodynamic tailed body and underbonnet power unit; (b) motor; (c) motor installation; (d) body
structure.

emission. The car is claimed to have the world’s lightest The electrical drive consists of an ultra-thin (60 mm)
1.0 litre, 3-cylinder petrol engine, which uses lean burn brushless motor, (b), directly connected to the crank-
technology, low friction characteristics and lightweight shaft, (c), 144 V nickel–metal hydride (Ni–MH) bat-
materials in combination with a new lean burn com- teries (weighing just 20 kg) and an electronic Power
patible NO x catalyst. Control Unit (PCU). The electric motor draws power

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