The Spectrum White Pearl Insight has a blue interior very similar to the 2009 Honda Civic Hybrid (HCHII), this particular unit has navigation.

I had planned to put a whole photo gallery here, but my phone’s camera became non-op after the first picture :( , by the time I’d finished with all that it was time to get back to work.

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Kacey Green 
for the Midlands Hybrid Club
"Promoting the spread of clean personal transportation technologies."

My fuel economy, tracked at every fill-up since purchase, your mileage will vary. 

The Midlands Hybrid Club, the home of the hybrid and hypermiling club of the Carolinas, based in Columbia, SC.

On March 31, 2009, the Honda FCX Clarity was in Columbia for the Hydrogen Expo, I was invited to get behind the wheel. I used (right up until the start of this calendar year) to feel that Hydrogen was a wasted effort, but when you exclude hydrogen combustion cars and only look at fuel cell vehicles like the Clarity and its “competitors” you see an encouraging development. (To date none of the competition is available to the general public; the Clarity is available to normal people in limited volume and geography)

A fuel cell car to me is an Electric Vehicle (EV) but instead of having a large battery that charges from a grid connection, it makes its energy on the fly from an onboard hydrogen supply. A plug-in EV is great for around town, but they do not currently fast-fill practically for long trips. A hydrogen vehicle fills very similarly to the way a compressed natural gas vehicle does, and quick fills are very practical. If the hydrogen is produced from clean supplies rather than fossil fuels, they make great long range EVs, once there is a widespread fueling network like the one we currently have for gasoline.

Today we changed the layout of the site to something that would be more flexible going forward, the last framework we were using was right about at the point where we would have started having to do some inelegant hacking to continue to provide the level of sophisticated articles our readers and members have come to expect.

The old framework was starting to creak with some of the articles we post and the width was on the narrow side of the scale. This new setup allows us to go forward with new article presentation options and video will now be an easy option. The last time we featured a video we received several useful feedback comments.