The 2001 Honda Insight equipped with a continuously variable
automatic transmission (CVT) has been chosen as the "Year's Cleanest
Vehicle" by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
(ACEEE), publisher of ACEEE's Green Book™: The Environmental Guide
to Cars and Trucks.
According to the Washington D.C.-based nonprofit organization, Honda's advanced CVT version of the Insight took the award for all Model Year 2001 vehicles during the latest update to GreenerCars.com, ACEEE's Green Book™ Web site. The release of the Insight CVT marks another milestone - the first time a gasoline-powered vehicle has topped the charts alone in ACEEE's Green Book™.
During the 2001 model year, ACEEE chose the Honda Insight with a manual transmission and Honda Civic GX as the "Greenest Vehicles."