More Fuel Cell Vehicles for Lease in 2017
This electric car can go 366 miles and refuels as fast as any gasoline powered car. The Honda Clarity Fuel Cell has no plug though.
While many call them fuel cell vehicles, technically they are referred to as fuel cell electric vehicles—and they do run on electricity created by a fuel cell and compressed hydrogen gas (H2) and oxygen from the ambient air. Battery electric vehicles (without gas tanks) and fuel cell electric vehicles are the only two types of vehicles that qualify as Zero Emission Vehicles by the California Air Resources Board.
[Note: In California, any new vehicle in 2020 or later that doesn't run on gasoline or diesel will be classified as a ZEV for the purpose of paying a new $100 annual Road Improvement Fee per the Road Repair and Accountability Act of 2017. See SEC. 47. Section 9250.6 – (g) in SB 1.]
Dee-Ann Durbin , auto writer for The Associated Press, reports that leases of fuel cell vehicles by Honda, Toyota and Hyundai will increase to over 1,000 this year from a few hundred over the past three years.
Fueling Stations
According to the U.S. Department of Energy's Alternative Fuels Data Center, there are 34 hydrogen fueling stations in operation in the U.S.: 31 in California, and one each in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and South Carolina as of April 13, 2017. See California Fuel Cell Partnership map for locations, be they operating, under construction, or planned; and whether they serve the public.
Sales of FCEVs amounted to just over one thousand last year, compared to nearly 80,000 electric vehicles, according to WardsAuto, reports Durbin. According to Andrew J. Hawkins, transportation reporter for The Verge, "[t]the main reason is that the hydrogen-fueling infrastructure is practically nonexistent."
According to the California Air Resources Board's "DriveClean" webpage on Fuel Cell Vehicles, "(b)y 2020, automakers expect to place tens of thousands of fuel cell electric vehicles in the hands of California consumers."
For the latest on each auto manufacturer's plan for FCEV development and commercialization, visit the following websites:
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