
Honda’s FCX Clarity Hydrogen/Electric Hybrid
Not to be outdone by chief rival Honda, Toyota has announced that they too will have a hydrogen vehicle–and they’ll have it before anyone else does.
Big boasts for a company whose only hydrogen test vehicle so far was an SUV (the Highlander) a couple of years ago. Honda, meanwhile, is already road-testing a fleet of leased FCX Clarity cars in three different locales (in both Southern California and Japan) with a projected public release date of 2018.
Whatever the outcome, it’s nice to see more than one company looking to hydrogen as the battery and energy storage medium of the future. It’s renewable, non-polluting, and much longer term than lithium-ion and other battery types.
Source: Green Car Congress
Tags: hydrogen, hydrogen car, toyota
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