The hype about hydrogen — Honda FCX Clarity

Couldn’t say it better myself about Honda’s whiz-bang marketing vs, reality, but the hydrogen car is still basically all hat, no cattle, as far as having any real-world impact.

I woke one day this week to find the future had arrived. Honda had made the hydrogen car a reality through its FCX Clarity. I yawned and went back to bed. Nothing had really changed. Hydrogen cars were still an appealing fantasy, a mirage that recedes just when it seems within reach.

And …

If you live outside of California, you will likely never see an FCX Clarity on the road.

Writer Lawrence Ullrich then applies the coupe de grace, saying Honda isn’t building this car to actually do anything about either global warming or Peak Oil.

Rather?

It’s all about the greenwash.

Honda’s U.S. R&D chief says mass market fuel-cell cars are at least a decade away.