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Honda Civic Generation II Hybrid Electric Vehicle Accelerated Reliability Testing – October 2008

Two Generation II (2006) Honda Civic hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) entered Accelerated Reliability testing during July 2006 in one fleet in Arizona. After reaching 160,000 miles each, the two Civic HEVs will have their traction batteries tested before being retired.

Fact sheets and maintenance logs for these vehicles give detailed information such as miles driven, fuel economy, operations and maintenance requirements, operating costs, and life-cycle costs.

The two Generation II Civic HEVs have been driven a total of 306,000 miles and the cumulative average fuel economy for the two Generation II Civic HEVs is 39.0 miles per gallon.

Graph showing that cumulative average fuel economy for the Honda Civic Generation II Test Fleet is 39.0 miles per gallon.
Graph showing that the Honda Civic Generation II Test Fleet has been driven a total of 306,000 miles and an average of just over 11,300 miles per month.