Honda Fcx Clarity Hydrogen Fuel Cell Plug In Electric Hybrid

Finally, get-together is producing the car we worry been salivating lost for a decade. The Honda FCX Precision is a hydrogen fuel-cell lithium ion break in electric car. Hydrogen gas from the car's fuel basin and oxygen in the air laborer dictate membranes in the fuel cell, following in an electrochemical belief that generates electricity to run the motor and produces hose down vapor as purpose. A support lithium-ion cache burden helps at any time further power is considered necessary than the fuel cell is producing. Voice 200 go to consumers in the closest three duration. Utmost bestow be leased for 600 a month to Southern Californians who worry other cars and up in the vicinity of one of three 24-hour metropolitan hydrogen stations. All Precision agency Honda specified 200,000 to yield.

The display car's 61 miles per kilogram of hydrogen in inhabited use equated to 62 miles per gallon of oil. Washington, D.C.'s austerely metropolitan hydrogen squeeze, a Go up station, charged 8.18 per kg. So, 8.18 for 61 miles in Precision, vs. here 9.35 in a 24-mpg, four-cylinder Friendship. Honda's countrified a home-fill disconnection. It would clinch to a residential natural gas level and cause hydrogen for your fuel-cell car, cordial for your home's hose down and electricity for your manor. Honda won't prophesy timing or rate. Honda FCX Clarity:

o What? Limited-production, midsize, front-wheel-drive, four-door, four-passenger sports car mechanical by electricity from a hydrogen fuel cell backed up by lithium-ion cache burden.

o When? If at all possible was delivered July 25 in Southern California, where metropolitan hydrogen uninteresting stations disposable a hydrogen car applied.

o Where? Built at Tochigi, Japan.

o Why? To field-test production hydrogen cars in patrons hands.

o How much? Leased for 600 a month for three duration.

o How many? Voice 200 the closest three duration, supreme in the U.S., a few in Japan.

o How potent? Thrilling motor is rated 134 horsepower, 189 pounds-feet of torque. Lithium-ion cache burden is rated 288 volts.

o What's missing? Weight places, sunroof, hole up, van on/off headlights. Otherwise laden.

o How big? Four inches shorter than Honda Friendship, here 200 lbs. heavier, more willingly than be over. Precision is 190.3 inches fancy, 72.7 in. unreserved, 57.8 in. tall on a 110.2-in. wheelbase. Weighs 3,582 lbs. Passenger facility is lay aside as 100.8 cubic feet.

Trunk: 13.1 cubic feet next to under-floor wear satisfactorily. Carries 700 pounds of lay claim to, wares.

o How thirsty? Rated 77 miles per kilogram of hydrogen in town, 67 on the highway, 72 in vulgar hooligan. That equates to 79/68/74 mpg of oil, according to Honda.

Regular-production display car's go round laptop showed 61 mpkg in inhabited hooligan.

Basin holds 4.1 kg hydrogen trodden at 5,000 lbs. per oblong inch.

o Overall: Rehearse whines tiresomely. (USA Now, 9/5/08)