Honda FCX Clarity: The Beginning of Mass Production For Hydrogen Cars?

aka Dboy23

Honda’s first zero-emissions, hydrogen fuel cell car rolled off a Japanese assembly line today, to be leased in California at $600 a month for three years. The FCX Clarity runs on hydrogen and a lithium-ion battery and emits only water as exhaust. It’s purported to be twice as efficient as a gas-electric hybrid and three times more efficient than a gas-powered car, plus its fuel is an inexhaustable, naturally-occuring substance. Honda is planning on leasing out a "few dozen" of the cars this year and about 200 of them over the following three years. More from Reuters.

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Posted at 10:43 pm in FCX Clarity, Guest Blogger, Honda, Hydrogen

Comments

GTwildfire
Jun 19, 2008 at 2:09 pm

Why does this scenario remind me of the EV1?

Oafman
Jun 17, 2008 at 7:59 pm

I have a friend who has done research into using hydrogen to run a regular car. He drives a Tracker that runs on either gas or a combination of gas and hydrogen. Using the extra power from the alternator you can produce hydrogen while driving and feed that into the engine. On some of his tests he has more than tripled his gas mileage. I am hoping to work on my 1997 Suburban using the same priciple. With luck I can get 40-60 mpg using this process while still using the original V-8.

D
Jun 17, 2008 at 2:03 pm

For 1 I’m sure they looked at the effect it would have on the enviroment. I dont know how you could see Water as being worse then what cars emit right now. 2 this isnt like the Hindenburg and its not gonna explode at first contact with anyhting. I’m sure if they are on the assembly line its becuase it has passed all saftey standard tests.

Louis
Jun 17, 2008 at 1:51 pm

Oh that and water is one of the most manipulative chemical compounds out there, so I wouldn’t worry about an over abundance of it. (take organic chemistry)

Louis
Jun 17, 2008 at 1:50 pm

i hope highspeedhijinks is kidding hahaha. Think about all the crap our current cars (millions of them) are putting out. Ya maybe it’s not liquid form but gaseous form is still significant. And Derrick, I hear ya. They may be ugly but they’re the first to step it up and make them.

Derrick
Jun 17, 2008 at 12:52 pm

yet another ugly econ-o-box, why can’t they design something that would appeal to the redneck in all of us?

Highspeedhijinks
Jun 17, 2008 at 12:45 pm

I dont like the fact that these cars produce water and release it into the air. Here me out on this one. If you muliplied that by the millions of cars on the road all emitting say a gallon of water for every 200 miles. Then we just might effect our weather from the increased amount of moisture in the air or pooled up on the ground. Its not a problem if the technology isnt to mass produced but do you see where Im going with this. They should think about a catch can at least.

JStuckey
Jun 17, 2008 at 4:51 am

Hmmmm… can’t wait till one of those gets hit and turns into the largest fireball to hit the freeway since the Pinto.

artie99
Jun 17, 2008 at 12:43 am

Thank God someone is producing a hydrogen car.
That’s where my money is for the future of the auto industry.