Honda Plans Hybrid Push: Insight's life expectancy: five years. Honda plans for five hybrids in lineup by 2015

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FUELED BY THE NEW INSIGHT AND AT least two more models in the pipeline, Honda Motor Co. Ltd. hopes to boost annual hybrid sales to 500,000 units in 2015. In 2008, the auto maker sold 57,000 units, mostly Civic Hybrids, with several hundred Accord Hybrids. If Honda achieves its target, hybrids will account for an estimated 10% of its global sales, says Yasunari Seki, the Insight's chief engineer. Seki reiterates in an interview the auto maker plans to introduce a hybrid sports car in 2010. Then, probably in 2013 - although he would not confirm a launch date, Honda will follow with a hybrid version of the Fit, which may or may not be sold in North America.