HONDA CRV HYBRID GENERATOR
(Ironically, the battery eats into storage, raising the cargo floor flush with the sill and trimming load capacity from 39 to 36 cubic feet.) When we stomped on the loud pedal during our acceleration runs or climbed a grade, the 145-hp 2.0-liter Atkinson-cycle engine's main duty was that of stationary real-time generator in partnership with a second 161-hp electric machine that's thoroughly ignored in the spec panel below because, well, it's just a generator-and also the starter motor.
This is no pure EV, though, because its battery, a tiny 1.1-kWh lithium-ion unit, is made for temporary storage, not distance. The hybrid is instead powered (most of the time) by a 181-hp AC synchronous electric motor. The effect of all of that is magnified by the absence of a continuously variable automatic transmission. The Sport duo can also be identified on dealer lots by their black touches, including grille and grille bar, roof rails, alloy wheels, and mirror housings. Besides superior fuel economy, these two models deliver the sportiest and smoothest driving of the lot, with the Sport Touring being the most well-appointed in the entire lineup. If you want your 2023 CR-V to be a hybrid-and you do-look for the Sport or Sport Touring badge. That characterization absolutely does not apply to the new hybridized CR-V, which features a comprehensively reworked hybrid powertrain and a whole new attitude that starts with the fact that it's not positioned as a stand-alone hybrid model. The output and fuel efficiency of the powertrain-a turbocharged 1.5-liter inline-four engine and continuously variable automatic transmission-hadn't budged. But that review used the word "incremental," because while the vehicle's interior space and driving environment had unquestionably improved, no new ground was obviously broken. The debut is scheduled for tomorrow, then we'll find out where the horsepower comes from and where Honda plans to put all those horses on show.We came away mighty impressed with the new sixth-generation 2023 Honda CR-V after sampling an EX-L some weeks back. Design is being handled by the North American design division. The SUV is being developed at the Auto Development Center by Honda Performance Development engineers. And this thing sits about two whiskers off the ground.
We're given a better view of the interior here, and even the inside has been gutted to make room for two OMP racing buckets, a Cosworth single-seater-style steering wheel at the end of a gleaming racing column, and a riveted divider separating the two front-seaters from whatever's behind. The first teaser hinted that there was little left of the production CR-V Hybrid on the racer beyond the taillights, headlights and grille.
This video is even shorter than the first, but it's plenty long enough for us to know the answer is "Yes." It's a proper way for 800 horsepower to sound. Now it's teased the exhaust note in a second clip.
Honda Performance Development teased the squat, fat-tired crossover in a short video last week. Honda hasn't announced any intention to take its CR-V Hybrid race car up the snaking 12 miles to the clouds, but now we might want it to. It is but the end of February and the slate for this year's Pikes Peak Hill International Climb already includes more pickups, vans, and crossovers than we would have expected (the total is 3 so far).
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