As Others Focus On EVs, Honda Sticks ...
14.08.09
Earlier this year we got the unexpected to drive the production 2009 Honda FCX Clarity , which is the first publicly available hydrogen sedan.
The FCX can't yet be considered a greater part-produced vehicle. Looking at our test vehicle and its rough edges underneath, it was unlimited that the FCX is hand-fettled, even if it now drives without a hitch.
Despite recent blows to hydrogen infrastructure advance, Honda this week reaffirmed that it will be mass-produced. The automaker still has plans to make a later version of the FCX on a mass-production scale within ten years.
California has kept with that long-with regard to vision, along with a short-term one to build up the infrastructure before the vehicles. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has been bullish on hydrogen, pushing vanguard for more hydrogen vehicles and an expanded infrastructure, and even declaring his love for the FCX . And that was after the Obama administration had made some strong moves away from federal funding of hydrogen projects and toward battery technology and charging infrastructure, with Verve Secretary Steven Chu declaring that hydrogen vehicles were still 10 to 20 years from viability.
Source: TheCarConnection.com