Starting this summer, $600 / month will buy you one of the first fuel cell vehicles in the world. Of course, they aren't selling very many of them, and if you don't live in Torrance, Irvine, or Santa Monica, California, they aren't selling them at all. While GM is basically giving away it's fuel cell Chevy Equinox's, Honda is the first ever major car company to lease them.
Of course, Honda won't be making any money off the cars, but they did come in first in this particular race. But this is only one battle in the long-standing fuel cell war between GM and Honda.
The FCX Clarity is a gorgeous car. I honestly wish they just made a hybrid version with the same body. But, instead, (and unlike the Equinox) it's a fuel-cell only model. This worked well, of course, for Toyota with their hybrid only model. But the landscape with fuel cell vehicles is quite different, especially since there is no hydrogen fueling (or production) infrastructure in place.
[To read the rest, head on over to EcoGeek]
Edited by stins - Thu, 29 May 2008 21:32:07 GMT
