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Honda FCX clarity arrives in Europe, but only for the media

2009 Honda FCX Clarity - Click above for high-res image gallery Honda has brought the Honda FCX Clarity to the Old Continent. Unfortunately, interested drivers won't be able to lease the hydrogen-powered car, since the Clarity is here just for members of the press. Only two vehicles have been brought ashore, and both are registered in Germany. One of the first publications to glimpse the car is Autoplus, in important car magazine in France. Autoplus highly praised the Clarity, saying it was as an upscale, family-oriented large sedan with ... Read more →

Honda starts FCX leases in Japan, kids targeted Sebastian Blanco

Deliveries of the US-spec FCX Clarity took place back in July and since then plenty of celebrities and excited hydrogen fuel cell advocates have been leasing the vehicles in Southern California. ...

First keys delivered to customer for Honda FCX Clarity Jeremy Korzeniewski

The very first set of keys for Honda's brand new FCX Clarity have been delivered to film producer Ron Yerxa and Annette Ballester. The duo took delivery of their new hydrogen fuel cell-powered FCX ...

Info on Honda's new global hybrid Sebastian Blanco

Do you like the Honda FCX Clarity (above) but wish it had a more standard hybrid powertrain instead of its million-dollar hydrogen fuel cell guts? You might get your wish, kind of. Honda president ...

EVS23: Things get started Sebastian Blanco

EVS23, the 23rd major symposium on Electric Vehicles organized by the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA) and the World Electric Vehicle Association (WEVA), began Monday morning in ...

First Drive: 2009 Honda FCX Clarity, world's first series production fuel cell car 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the FCX Clarity for a high-res gallery digg_url = 'http://digg.com/hardware/Blogger_takes_Honda_s_10m_hydrogen_fuel_cell_FCX_Clarity_for_a_test_drive'; What you see pictured above is the world's first fuel cell-powered car designed from the ground up expressly for that purpose with ...

LA 2007: 2009 Honda FCX Clarity Live reveal 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Click the FCX Clarity for a high-res gallery At the Los Angeles Auto Show this morning, Honda got to step three of a process that began at the 2005 Tokyo Motor Show when they first introduced the non-driveable FCX concept. A few months later they introduced a running version of that concept and ...

LA 2007 Preview: "Production" Honda FCX to debut 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Honda will be taking the wraps off the "production" version of their latest generation FCX at the Los Angeles Auto Show next month. The new fuel cell-powered FCX is based on the concept version that we drove a year ago and will be available to fleets and retail customers in the US and Japan ...

Honda's FCX makes European debut 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Honda's next-generation FCX Concept fuel cell vehicle made its European driving debut at the Gotland Ring in Sweden yesterday. The FCX is claimed to have a energy efficiency of around 60 percent (which is 3 times more than a gasoline car, twice as much as a hybrid - but there was no mention on how ...

The Union of Concerned Scientists names Honda the "Greenest Automaker" 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Honda has been making headlines on sites such as ours as of late with the greening of their automotive fleet. Remember, Honda is not exactly a newcomer to the world of green vehicles, their Insight brought them into the hybrid game right from the start. Not only that, the combined fuel economy of ...

Want to try out a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle? Here's how: 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

"Hydrogen: Here And Now!" This is theme of the upcoming Hydrogen Expo in San Antonio, Texas, to be held March 19-21. The question is, should it be "Hydrogen: Here And Now? And, if not now, when?" To get a sneak peek at the possible answers to these questions, perhaps you should attend the expo. At ...

Fox 11 "Auto Evolution" video series online covers fuel-cells, plug-in hybrids and more 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Fox 11 Los Angeles has posted a four-part video series online called Auto Evolution which looks at the green vehicles and auto technology of the future which promise lower emissions and better mileage. John Beard and Christine Devine filed the reports which offer a good cross-section of interviews, ...

Is $84,000 for a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle reasonable? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

We mentioned this on AutoblogGreen over the holidays, but I came across another aspect of the claim by Honda President Takeo Fukui's statement that he expects hydrogen fuel cell vehicles to be widely available in 2018 that bears thinking about. As Sam mentioned in his original post, Fukui believes ...

Reporter finds driving fuel cell vehicle similar to other cars 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

A writer for the San Francisco Chronicle spent a few days in a Mercedes-Benz FCX fuel-cell car. Although he wanted to feel like a pioneer with the upcoming technology, he discovered that hydrogen fuel-cell cars are quite similar in most driving aspects to mainstream vehicles. There are the quiet ...

Honda president expects generally available fuel cell cars by 2018 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Honda has already announced their plans to make a production version of the fuel cell powered FCX concept available to the public in limited quantities starting in 2008. Now in an interview with Kyodo News in Japan, Honda President Takeo Fukui has stated that he expects that fuel cell cars will be ...

Honda FCX concept fuel cell car in depth, Pt. 3 - Construction and interior 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

(Editor's Note: don't miss Parts One and Two of this series) The body structure of the Honda FCX concept is a combination of a steel lower body structure mated to a carbon-fiber composite upper structure. The production version will switch to an all steel structure to help keep costs down and ...

Honda FCX concept fuel cell car in depth, Pt. 2 - Styling and powertrain 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

(Editor's Note: don't miss the Part One of this series) The new Honda FCX concept is a four-door, four seat sports sedan with a profile reminiscent of the Lamborghini Portofino concept of the late 1980s. It has an extreme cab-forward stance, with a sharply raked windshield, and a fairly tall rear ...

Honda FCX concept fuel cell car in depth, Pt. 1 - The new fuel cell stack 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

In June of 2005 Honda became the first car company in the world to lease a hydrogen fuel cell powered car to Jon Spallino, of Redondo Beach, California. During the 2005-6 auto show season, they showed off a concept version of their first purpose-built fuel cell powered car. Earlier this year they ...

PopSci gets FCX test drive and interview with Honda CEO 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

On a recent trip to Honda's research and development center in Utsunomia, Japan, Popular Science got an opportunity to conduct a 10-minute interview with Takeo Fukui, Honda's president and CEO, as well as take the FCX fuel cell concept car out for a spin. First, the test drive. Joe Brown from ...

Honda unveils diesel, FCX sports car 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Honda says it will offer a California-legal diesel and a fuel-cell sports car by 2009. The 4-cylinder diesel is promising to be the first engine to meet EPA and California diesel exhaust requirements. Officials also boast it will get 30 percent better fuel economy than a comparable gas engine. ...

Honda FCX update: going the extra mile 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

In a recent press release, Honda announced that they were able to extend the driving range of their 2nd generation FCX fuel cell vehicle from 190 miles to 210. To achieve this, they didn't replace the catalysts, rework the exchange membranes or rebuild the fuel cell stack. They found the additional ...

Honda's next big moves: new hybrid and third-gen fuel cell 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Two big announcements from Honda recently concerning what the company has in store for the future. As we noted yesterday, the company says ethanol is not efficient, and doesn't see the biofuel as part of its future strategy. So, what is? A new hybrid in, maybe, 2009, and third-generation hydrogen ...

Honda and Spallino family celebrate FCX's first birthday 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

In June, 2005, Honda Motor Co. leased it first fuel-cell vehicle, the FCX, to the Spallino family (pictured) for two years. The Spallinos, who live in Los Angeles, use the vehicle as their daily vehicle to shop, ferry kids to sports, and some long-distance travels. They log their usage of the FCX, ...

GE works on cheaper hydrogen electrolysis 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Ask any pragmatic member of the automotive community when we might see a hydrogen-powered vehicles (fuel cell or internal-combustion engine), and the answer will probably range from "several years" to "several decades". General Electric looks to be trying to push that towards the lower end of the ...


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