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Hydrogen Fuel Cells Hit the Road

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the tough-finding-a-fueling-station dept.

caffeined writes "Well, it looks like Honda is doing a real test of their fuel-cell car. A family in California is renting the car for $500/mo. Honda is charging them so that they take it seriously - an executive explained that if it were free they might not get the kind of feedback they want. If someone is paying for something and they're not happy - then you're going to hear about it. This is apparently the first fuel-cell car on the road anywhere in the world, according to Honda."

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  1. Re:People will pay for anything... by eln · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Charge them $500 a month to have the car blow up upon impact and kill the whole family. Sheesh.

    You're right, we should stick to powering our cars with a nice, non-volatile, non-explosive substance like gasoline.

  2. Electric car, yeah right... by LemonFire · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since 61% of all electricity in California is produced using fossil fuel how is this really helping us right now?
    Only 28% of the electricity is created using nuclear or hydro power sources.
    So if more and more people start driving electric cars in California we'll have to burn even more fossils and quite a bit of it is the good old polluter named coal.

    Not that I have anything against a better car runs on renewable energy, but I think it would be better to start with creating more electricity that doesn't come from fossils.

    -- Sir! I'm only telling you once, step down from the soap box. This is your last warning...