First Drive: 2009 Honda FCX Clarity

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Clarity. It's the name Honda has given its production fuel cell car, and it's a name you'll want to remember. After years of having fuel cell prototypes in the hands of fleets and even paying customers, Honda makes good on its commitment to a hydrogen future. The 2007 Los Angeles Auto Show was the venue for the introduction of the FCX Clarity, an Accord-sized sedan with styling based on the FCX Concept from a few years ago that promises to "enable levels of performance room, comfort and dynamic styling previous unattainable in a fuel cell car."

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• hydrogen
• fcx
• clarity
• fuel cell
• honda

[raykrislianggi]

FUCK PRIUS! GO FCX!!!!

[Solumic]

Honda will always be #1 in technology.

[rnorred1986]

I like the design of this car a lot. Looks kinda like a Civic, but way cooler. Too bad it can only be leased.

[misakNFS]

Omg, what is amazing on quiet car ? Fuck that.

[stiv625]

how much does it cost Honda to build each one of these? I thought i remembered a figure of around $86k being thrown around

[heartlessvietboy]

By running it through a propeller to get a magnetic turbine spinning. Hydrogen is used because its an abundant fuel source, not because we can obtain it through electrolysis. We can store many other fuel sources conveniently also.

[ST1886]

@heartlessvietboy ...and how exactly are you going to generate energy from water? Hydrogen is used because you can obtain it by electrolisis from regular water, and you can later burn it, exhaust is only water... it's not hard to see it's a convenient and clean way to store energy...

[heartlessvietboy]

How does Hydrogen Gas pass through a fuel cell, cracked into H2O to generate water to create electricity? Why don't you just use water directly to generate electricity? Why spend Billions of dollars creating hydrogen to turn it back into water? Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology is to be examined.

[WhatThePresidentSays]

i know that there's a car that can run on water, but that will cause a big problem in our water supply so compressed hydrogen all the way!

the only problem is the price of this vehicle to make

[0932486509]

@gerbre1 Check up on the Ecat system. That won't be a problem anymore. NASA is calling it #1 green technology. Find out why.

[gerbre1]

Hydrogen is ineffizient to generate, store and transport. Today most of the hydrogen is generated from oil based sources. Maybe hydrogen technology is good for the oil companies, but it's bad for renewable technologies and nature.

[Ge0vone]

Hydrogen is the way of the future not electric vehicles, they're more of a gap