I really want to get a hybrid for my next car. The gas prices I’m seeing in the U.S. and Japan are just too high. Using a pre-paid card at a place around the corner here in Kumamoto, I paid ¥119 for a liter of gas the other day. That’s a discount price! I saw some places selling gas for ¥129 a liter! If you need a North American-centric reference, the discount price is about $US3.80 a gallon.
Back to hybrid’s: Honda’s Civic is winning all kinds of praise, and it is high on my list. Now rumor has it that they are developing a new hybrid version of the Honda Fit. Using the technology that is available now, analysts are predicting that a hybrid version of such a small car could get as much as 35 to 36 kilometers on a liter of gas (that’s 82-84 miles a gallon)!
Tags: cars, environment, Japan, technology