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Honda produces new fuel-cell car

Posted at 10:47 AM on 16 Jun 2008

Honda Motor Co.'s hydrogen-powered FCX Clarity rolled off the line Monday and will be leased to high rollers in California. The Clarity -- an update of Honda's original FCX, a handful of which were leased in 2005 -- runs on hydrogen and electricity, emits only water, and is twice as fuel-efficient as a gas-electric hybrid. Actresses Laura Harris and Jamie Lee Curtis, filmmaker Christopher Guest, and Little Miss Sunshine producer Ron Yerxa will be among those leasing the Clarity this year; Honda hopes to lease 200 of the cars within three years and, if all goes well, have them mass-produced within a decade. All going well will mean a significant uptick in hydrogen-fueling infrastructure: fill-up stations are currently few and far between (if existent at all) in most of the country.

sources: Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, Bloomberg

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A decade?

Sigh... It would be nice to have them out by 2010 alongside the Chevy Volt, etc.

by mlosco at 6:15 PM on 16 Jun 2008

Go Honda, Go Honda!

Isn't it funny that a non-American company is already rolling this thing out and our American companies just finagled -what was it?- 30 or 50 billion dollars for R and D?

The earth is our house. Let's clean it up!

by zenkate at 6:57 PM on 16 Jun 2008

OK, but...

Where's the hydrogen coming from? What's powering the hydrogen plant?

The mellotron is your friend.

by archigeek at 8:48 AM on 17 Jun 2008

Fill stations

I don't see why Honda doesn't put a fill station at each of it's dealerships. Any large city will have a few dealerships, why not capitalize on that? The range on these is too small to really be considered a long range travel vehicle, but 270 miles in a reasonably large city would make me think you would pass a Honda dealership often enough. A quick search in Austin, TX brings up 15 Honda dealers and 2 Acura dealers all within 200 miles. In fact that includes ones in San Antonio and Houston.

by jbdallas at 9:28 AM on 24 Jun 2008

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