I know it doesn't look as futuristic like the cars we've seen in those movies like Demolition Man (2003), Back to the future , etc.. etc..The Honda FCX Clarity is an electric car but unlike the electric cars released before the FCX Clarity, this has no battery in it. Most electric cars carry heavy & dangerous batteries like the Tesla Roadster. Yes you are saving the planet for not burning fuel but what you don't know is how much pollution your contributing when you buy one or even charge it. Try to research on how they manufacture the batteries, where they get the materials..your actually forcing manufacturers to destroy the planet for good!
Yes there's the Toyota Prius. It's a brilliant car with a tiny petrol engine and an electric motor. The petrol engine when running runs the car and also charges the batteries (battery again!) of the car. Once the batteries are fully charge the petrol motor will just shutoff automatically and the electric motor will kick in and run the car. It's brilliant to be honest. It's a great mind, the creator of that car. The thing is.... You still have a battery on this car. There is still the danger or getting an electric shock and like what I wrote with the Tesla Roadster the battery manufacturers produces damages on the planet as they manufacture these batteries. And what will you do with the batteries as these cars get old enough not to run? Burn them? Burry them? That's a lot of pollution and waste! That's a battery for cry out loud! You don't just throw them like a piece of paper!
Back to the FCX Clarity. Yes it still has a fuel tank, yes it still powered by electricity. The FCX Clarity is fueled with HYDROGEN Fuel Cells (Whatever that means... :D) The Hydrogen Cells will be converted into electricity by some wizzerfy doo daa under the hood of this car and then the electricity is then used to power the electric motors of the car. The great thing about this car really is that it doesn't need to be charged every night and suck up all the electricity. Imagine what your face would look like when you get your electric bill. Also, you don't have to service this car every few miles cause it doesn't have any moving part. It doesn't have an engine. You still pull up in the fuel station to fill it up with hydrogen like what you do with your car today. Only this is better cause Hydrogen will never run out. It's everywhere, around us, underneath, it's absolutely all over us.... One of the best thing about the FCX Clarity is whatever comes out out of it's tail pipe. Try to make a guess ... H meets with 2O = H2O .... Oh yes! Water! You can even drink the water coming out of it's pipe. Seriously, they did a demo on that when they released the car in California about 2 or 3 years ago.
This is what I call a motoring iconic research. Where it allows us to say we are stepping forward in terms of motoring developments.Driving a petrol powered car allows you to cover miles and miles of distance and then once you run out of fuel. You simply fill it up that would take about 3 to 5 minutes then drive miles and miles of road again. That's the freedom that you get from a petrol powered car. So what's the point of driving a car for 10 yards then runs out of electricity and then takes about 4 hours to bring it back to life just to charge it. That's more like stepping backwards to me.
Stepping forward means it has to be better than what we already have now. The hydrogen powered FCX Clarity is it! Drive and Operate it like a petrol car but with less pollution, less maintenance, less to worry. And oh yes I know you'd be asking of it's performance.
Check this video from Top Gear's James May.
Driving along the car at over 100mph(161kph) and all you hear is a gasp of air running through the sides of your doors, it can accelerate from 0 to 62mph(100kph) in about 9.5 seconds. That's what a normal family saloon can do. It's the same performance with less damage done to the planet!
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