Nee, nee niet die Honda. De Honda Accord! Hybrid met 3.0 V6. Ze hebben er alleen
weinig ophef over gemakt en ik betwijfel of dit nieuws in Europa bekend is??
It's Not Just One Thing
Regenerative braking is the big payoff of hybrids, the ability to recapture the energy of vehicle motion that's ordinarily wasted as heat to the brakes. Feeding that "saved" energy back into forward motion accounts for 60 percent of the Accord's mileage gain in city and 38 percent in highway operation, Honda says. But there are many small losses besides braking, and Honda has attacked them, too.
Why run the engine at idle? The Accord doesn't, accounting for 25 percent of its improvement in city mpg.
Why fuel all six cylinders when three would be enough for much of your trip? The Accord doesn't, for another 15 percent of its city increase, 57 percent highway.
Aerodynamic improvements, to 0.29 Cd from 0.30, add another five percent of the highway gain.
Easy to say all of this, but daunting to do properly. Idle stop interrupts A/C and steering power. The Accord hybrid changes to electric steering and two A/C compressors, a small electric unit supplementing a larger belt-driven one. Electric drive has smaller losses than belt drive, too. Idle stop also means the torque converter loses oil pressure, followed on restart by lags in forward motion. The Accord has an electric transmission pump to keep pressure up.
Deactivating three cylinders is not as easy as interrupting the spark, either. Even when the rear bank is shut down by deactivating all the valves, the Accord V-6 keeps firing the plugs. Three-cylinder power is inherently rough, all wrong for buyers spending 30 large. So the Accord has "active" engine mounts that are electrically powered to counteract the vibrations of three-cylinder operation, a system of clutching the torque converter in harmony with the power pulses, and an anti-noise system plays through the radio speakers to counter the booming interior sounds.
On the aero side, wheels with less drag and a small decklid spoiler add highway streamlining.
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eeey jullie vergeten de bomen
ja dat is waar 
