Feast your Eyes, Ears on These 2010 Honda Insight, Toyota FT-EV Concept Videos
By John O'Dell January 28, 2009
The Detroit auto show is over and the Chicago show doesn't start until the end of next week, so we thought we'd bring you a treat for the slow time in between.
The crack Edmunds video team usually does its work at auto shows for Inside Line, but there were a couple of new and noteworthy green cars being unveiled in Motown earlier this month, so we asked for a few minutes of their time to be devoted to pieces expressly for the Green Car Advisor audience.
Senior Automotive Editor Brian Moody first maneuvered Honda spokesman Sage Marie in front of the 2010 Honda Insight for this 3.5-minute look at what's going to make the upcoming 2010 Honda Insight hybrid tick and why it will come to market costing a lot less than Toyota's Prius.
Then Moody stuck his microphone and inquisitive self in front of Toyota's Bill Reinert, national manager of advanced technology vehicles, for this 6-minute, 47-second discussion of the FT-EV concept car, which foreshadows the battery-electric city car Toyota says it will launch for retail sales in the U.S. in 2012.
Among the things Moody teases out of Reinert is a nice explanation of Toyota's marketing strategy for its first EV, as well as the disclosure that the company is "way beyond" overnight battery charging and is confident it can bring to market a car that can be charged up and ready to go in two hours or so.
So do yourselves a favor, take a 10-minute break and take a look.
Then do us a favor and let us know what you think.
John O'Dell, Senior Editor
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I think this is bull. Why are they making these slow little cars. They seem to be getting smaller everyday, and that is not a good thing. Does it look like that car is comfortable to drive in? or be a passenger in?, the answer is no. Why are they making them smaller if families are not having less kids they are having more. Unless we were mice or something i wouldnt fit in this car comfortably. They need to stop creating these unsafe little cars and focus on making greener mid-size cars.
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