The local Honda shop recently replaced the Ni-metal Hydride battery in my 2000 Insight gasoline-electric hybrid car. It still requires only about 3.9 liters of gasoline per 100 kilometers of travel. It still offers all the fully metric display options that Harry praises below. Gene.
---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 01:08:52 -0700 >From: Harry Wyeth <[email protected]> >Subject: [USMA:50757] Automobiles w/ metric options >To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > > I wonder if anyone knows of any vehicles sold in the > US which have the capability of switching to full > metric at the push of a button. I mean all of the > following: speed, distance covered, outside > temperature, and (if available on the vehicle) > distance to empty tank, average speed, coolant > temperature, oil pressure, instantaneous and overall > fuel economy, and anything else (I can't think of > any others). > > I owned a first edition Honda Insight that offered > all of these by simply turning a switch. A 2004 > Chevy truck offers most of these (but not speed), > but you have to scroll through a computer menu to do > it. My Prius offers only the speed option, sadly. > I wonder about the new version of the Insight. > > HARRY WYETH
