I want one and I want it now.
Friday, February 20, 2009 at 19:31 Ron saw this on cable this afternoon as part of the Japan auto show. We were both blown away by the sleek lines of this all hydrogen fuel cell entry from Honda.
Too bad a big country like the United States is so far behind the power curve ( so to speak ) with hydrogen fueling stations - maybe we wouldn’t have been were it not for the smoke and mirrors of the campaign for ethanol pushed by the Bush administration. Norway has hydrogen fueling stations ringing the highways of the country now - they’re completely self- sustainable and about the size of a refrigerator.
Hmmmm. So much for American ingenuity.
The high-pitched whine as the 2009 Honda FCX Clarity’s “engine” spools up is a sound as futuristic as any to be heard aboard the Millennium Falcon. Except the Star Wars ship is all fiction and movie magic. The FCX Clarity is all fact. The future — green, fuel-efficient and petroleum-free — is here.