{"id":41189,"date":"2023-01-25T09:03:50","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T14:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=41189"},"modified":"2023-01-25T09:03:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T14:03:50","slug":"1138545_2024-honda-civic-hybrid-due-as-sedan-and-hatchback-but-no-phev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=41189","title":{"rendered":"2024 Honda Civic Hybrid due as sedan and hatchback, but no PHEV"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of a business update focusing on the U.S., Honda has confirmed that hybrid versions of its Civic compact car family will be arriving in the U.S. in calendar year 2024\u2014potentially earmarking it for the 2024 model year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The U.S. Civic Hybrid, which was confirmed with the discontinuation of the Insight hybrid sedan<\/a> back in April, but with no exact timeline, will receive excellent fuel economy ratings and offer great driving dynamics, according to Mamadou Diallo, American Honda Motor VP for sales, in a presentation Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The models to beat in fuel economy would be the Toyota Corolla Hybrid and Hyundai Elantra Hybrid, both of which earn an EPA-rated 50 mpg combined for 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Honda says that the arrival of the Civic Hybrid is part of its strategy to increase hybrid sales through its core models as a bridge to \u201cfull electrified vehicles.\u201d It\u2019s already aiming to boost the CR-V Hybrid<\/a> and Accord Hybrid to 50% of the sales mix, so it\u2019s likely the brand may aim for that with the Civic.<\/p>\n

\"2024<\/p>\n

2024 Honda Prologue<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Same future, different path<\/strong><\/p>\n

Both Honda and Acura are now aiming toward a future primarily of battery electric vehicles, but between Honda and its luxury brand Acura, there\u2019s a distinction to parse in terms of how rapidly they plan to embrace them.<\/p>\n

Honda doesn\u2019t plan to focus on plug-in hybrids \u201cin the near term,\u201d although the brand appears to be dropping hints that they may arrive later in the decade, in addition to a growing family of EVs\u2014some of them developed with GM<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Diallo said flat-out that hybrids and plug-in hybrids aren\u2019t coming for Acura; instead it will shift to battery electric models far faster.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re bypassing it with a much more accelerated cadence towards electrification,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While some traditional luxury performance brands like Mercedes\u2019 AMG unit have looked to performance plug-in hybrid systems<\/a> to take track times to new heights, Acura will instead focus on performance EVs. The upcoming ZDX EV, as the brand has announced, will have a Type S performance variant.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Honda brand also hasn\u2019t closed the door on hydrogen fuel cells in passenger vehicles. As it announced last November, it will start making a CR-V Fuel Cell<\/a>\u2014the first such hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle that also has some plug-in hybrid capability\u2014in Ohio in 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of a business update focusing on the U.S., Honda has confirmed that hybrid versions of its Civic compact car family will be arriving in the U.S. in calendar year 2024\u2014potentially earmarking it for the 2024 model year.\u00a0 The U.S. Civic Hybrid, which was confirmed with the discontinuation of the Insight hybrid sedan back […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}