2008 Chevrolet Equinox FCEV Fuel Cell

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Not an hour after my chat with Tom Williams, another driver of a 2008 Chevrolet Equinox FCEV as part of GM Project Driveway, he leaves a message on my cell phone:

"When I drove up to downtown L.A. from Orange County today, I got 60 miles to the kilogram. I don't know about you, but I love that."

It's the kind of excitement I'm used to hearing from truly motivated Prius owners. By any standard, the hydrogen-fueled Chevy Equinox fuel cell electric vehicle qualifies as alternative-fuel exotica, as rare and fascinating as it is expensive and impractical.

You can call it the 2008 Chevrolet Equinox FCEV (FCEV as in fuel cell electric vehicle), but this is no production vehicle. Only General Motors knows what it costs to build these SUVs, but each of these prototypes is probably worth the equivalent of 10 Tesla Roadsters.

For the next 72 hours, though, I'm going to drive our Chevrolet Equinox FCEV test vehicle like it's an ordinary, $30,000 Chevy Equinox LTZ. Of course, the FCEV's 150-mile range prevents me from leaving the green dreamland of Southern California. A Chevrolet dealership will probably never be more than five miles away, and specially trained OnStar advisors are waiting to take my call.

As a participant in the hydrogen-powered GM Project Driveway, I even have my own Driver Relationship Manager. She tells me I can call her cell any time, day or night. Not even my mom wants to talk to me that often.

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[porscheghcje]

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[MalNichtEgal]

Hydrogen, I give this preference. In Bottrop there is a hydrogen bus.

[NFM3]

Brian Moody - Ha!

[ChrisBennett18]

how can they tell if its full?? and how long does the fule last in this car? and i like these kinds of cars its just that its too expensive

[ajloder10]

Amen to that! And they also are looking bad to the consumers because they continue to produce vehicles which are inefficient, non-innovative, and expensive. If you look into the overseas markets for vehicles, it will blow your mind. At least they're doing something now though...

[Chosenby1]

what absolutely makes me sick to my stomach about all this, is that these auto companies could have offered better mpg cars 20 years ago, and they didn't because they don't give a damn about us consumers. Only reason they are doing it now is because of the dying economy and the fact that they have to save their own neck.

[bigthaha1]

uh srry xxdome2xx but ur an absolute IDIOT its a HYDROGEN powered car and hydrogen is the most abundant element in the world... it will NEVER run out..... ur done

[DECOFRANCE]

come on man think again, this is very easy if you dont have stupid mind. which is most destructive, drilling the earth to get fossil fuel or just get the water above the surface of the earth? which fuel is more abundant? come on men this invention is excellent. hydrogen is very easy to produce and for sure it will be a lot lot lot lot cheaper than gasoline, a lot lot lotl ot less destruction for our great planet.

[xXdome2Xx]

You know, water powered cars are a cool and clean alternative than oil, but, if you think twice,isn't it the same thing like oil. What I mean is it will be cheap and easy in the beginning, than cause damage later. I say this cause, to use water, we have to disrupt marine life, and make "territories" in water, like how the middle east has it. Water is a good alternative, but not the best. If we use solar, and air, we can literally have unlimited power.