Honda Insight Gen-I Resource Library

[IamIan]

For those who have PMed me about copies of some of the technical reports. Here is a list of some I found copies of on-line anyone can down load and enjoy reading if they wish.

Some of these that contain some information about the Gen-I Insight... sometimes only a part of the whole article ... other times the majority or all of it.

Please feel to add more if you know of any... so everyone can benefit.



Advanced Technology Vehicle Modeling in PERE
50 page pdf
March 2004

2000 Insight Online Reference Owner's Manual
249 Page pdf

Development of Integrated Motor Assist Hybrid System: Development of the ‘Insight’, a Personal Hybrid Coupe
10 page pdf
June 2000

Thermal Evaluation of the Honda Insight Battery Pack
9 page pdf
June 2001

Field Operations Program - Honda Insight Hybrid Electric Vehicle Performance Characterization Report
22 page pdf
March 2002

Hybrid Electric Vehicle End-of-Life Testing On Honda Insights, Honda Gen I Civics and Toyota Gen I Priuses
16 page pdf
Feb 2006

Fuel Consumption Modeling of Conventional and Advanced Technology Vehicles in the
Physical Emission Rate Estimator (PERE)
124 Page pdf
Feb 2005

Honda Insight Encyclopedia
93 Page pdf

Hybrid Electric Vehicle Fleet And Baseline Performance Testing
14 page pdf
April 2006

Emergency Response Guide Honda Insight
12 page pdf
May 2001

Lead-Acid Batteries in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
42 page pdf
Nov 2006
Lead Acid battery manufacture replaced the NiMH battery pack with a lead acid one.

Test Results and Modeling of the Honda Insight using ADVISOR
11 page pdf
2001

Battery Usage and Thermal Performance of the Toyota Prius and Honda Insight for Various Chassis Dynamometer Test Procedures

9 page pdf
nov 2001

Cold-Start and Warm-Up Driveability Performance of Hybrid Electric Vehicles Using Oxygenated Fuels
8 page pdf
Oct 2003

Benchmarking of OEM Hybrid Electric Vehicles at NREL
104 page pdf
Aug 2001

HYBRID LIGHT DUTY VEHICLES EVALUATION PROGRAM
11 page pdf
Feb 2003

Honda Insight Validation Using PSAT
16 Page Pdf

2000 Model Year Honda Insight CVT Crash Test data
352 page pdf

2001 Model Year Honda Insight MT Crash Test Data
216 page pdf

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Also check out the down loads on the other thread listed bellow.

Download 2000-2006 Insight Service Manual PDF and Others

[boogetyboogety]

Mods... can we sticky this? I've bookmarked it, but others will certainly benefit from this compendium henceforth...

Thanks, IamIan...

[bryankwalton]

Nice job. Kudos. Thanks for pulling this all together in one post!

Cheers,
Bryan

[IamIan]

I am attaching bellow a zip version of the :

A Practical Hybrid 6 page paper ( MS Word ) which outlines a simulation of using a 2nd clutch between the IMA motor and the ICE.

The old Google backup of my old web site is gone ... so this way people can still have acess to it if they wish.

[IamIan]

Detailed Crash test reports added ... several hundred pages for each vehicle type , CVT & MT.

If interested in other vehicles you can get this raw data from the government crash tests on most vehicles using the link bellow.

NHTSA VSR Query

[Lou Okrent]

I recall seeing several posts related to opening the interior door panel & repairing the window when the track has failed. I've ordered a reloacement sw assy but want to verify the window track isn't the issue!
Could you reply with a link to the applicable thread?
My search ability is clearly deficient!
Thanks!

[freezin4]

Originally Posted by mian afi143

but others will certainly benefit from this compendium henceforth...several hundred pages for each vehicle type , CVT & MT.

If interested in other vehicles you can get this raw data from the government crash tests on most vehicles using the link bellow.

^^^ Bot! Don't open link.

[phuber]

Regarding the first publication on "Advanced Technology Vehicle Modelling". I hate to question a .gov publication, but in equation (1) it says the mass is in tonnes, however the power is in Watts so I've a problem with the units, ie shouldn't the mass be in kg?

[IamIan]

Originally Posted by phuber

Regarding the first publication on "Advanced Technology Vehicle Modelling". I hate to question a .gov publication, but in equation (1) it says the mass is in tonnes, however the power is in Watts so I've a problem with the units, ie shouldn't the mass be in kg?

No reason to 'hate to question a .gov' ... they are people to ... no body is perfect ... everybody can make mistakes.

As for the use of Tonnes vs kg ... While they showed us the form of the equation , they did not show us actual math they did ... both are units of mass ... 1 Tonne = 1,000 kg ... the question is weather they accounted for the conversion properly in the math they did ... but we don't know the math they did ... the general form of the equation is just a unit of mass ... it could been in mg as long as the math is still done correctly.

That having been said ... I will agree they probably should have written it differently ... even if they did weigh the vehicle itself in metric tonnes... as it is ... it could mislead a novice into doing the actual math incorrectly.

As you say with the power in Watts the conventional unit of mass to use is the kg.

However ... sense I don't see their numbers being off by 1,000 ... which would be easily noticeable ... I suspect , despite the poor wording , that they did the actual math correctly.

[phuber]

The whole question is whether there's a factor of a thousand floating around in the last term on the right side. I suppose I could start plugging numbers and see if the aerodynamic drag is 20 Watts instead of 20 Kw at some moderate speed. By taking the total derivative and plugging some numbers it should be possible to make some intelligent estimates about what factors have what effect at various speeds.