The Revolution of Science H2 - Honda FCX Clarity
A revolution of science, perhaps? It’s easy to forget just how intense Honda’s FCX Clarity is.The Honda FCX Clarity may look like a typical, five-door large family hatchback, but don’t be cheated, it also just happens to be the first full production fuel cell-powered car in the world.
The FCX Clarity is a five-door hatchback, with an electric motor (and control unit) under its bonnet, powering its front wheels. In its middle is a fuel cell stack, and under the boot floor is a tank that can hold several kilos of hydrogen, compressed to 5000psi. The hydrogen is released as needed to the fuel cell, which generates electricity as needed by the motor. The only by product is pure water vapour, which exits from the exhaust. Science baby!!!!!!!!
So basically, when you rev, there will be pure water vapour exits from the exhaust and no white or black smoke. Cool eh!
It is, in short, the future.
Sad to said, it will never happen in Malaysia. FCX Clarity is available to only and only in Japan and California, because they are the only places where hydrogen is widely available on tap. Yes, Hydrogen pump is way different from our conventional pump.
That future may still seem a long way off, but the FCX Clarity has started making it a reality. Something that never been expected!
Totally familiar yet distinctly odd, both at the same time.
The great thing about the FCX Clarity is that it’s so completely usable and, in a lot of ways, completely normal. You get in, insert and twist a key, and press the start button. There’s no engine noise to greet you, but you get a few muted whirring and whining noises as you might in a Toyota Prius hybrid.
And because this car looks (even if Honda says it doesn’t), like any number of other D-segment cars, you go about your daily driving barely noticed by most road users. All perfectly ordinary - except that you’re driving one of the most revolutionary cars in the world.
And it’s that realisation that makes driving the FCX Clarity even more remarkable. Here’s a 10sec to 60mph car that’ll sit at 100mph all day, with a range of well over 200 miles, that releases nothing but pure water. It has 134bhp, similar to a lot of family cars. It has 189lb ft of torque, like a lot of family cars. It only takes a couple of minutes to fill its fuel tank, just like a family car. Yet from its exhaust comes nothing but water .
The FCX Clarity is a five-door hatchback, with an electric motor (and control unit) under its bonnet, powering its front wheels. In its middle is a fuel cell stack, and under the boot floor is a tank that can hold several kilos of hydrogen, compressed to 5000psi. The hydrogen is released as needed to the fuel cell, which generates electricity as needed by the motor. The only by product is pure water vapour, which exits from the exhaust. Science baby!!!!!!!!
So basically, when you rev, there will be pure water vapour exits from the exhaust and no white or black smoke. Cool eh!
It is, in short, the future.
Sad to said, it will never happen in Malaysia. FCX Clarity is available to only and only in Japan and California, because they are the only places where hydrogen is widely available on tap. Yes, Hydrogen pump is way different from our conventional pump.
That future may still seem a long way off, but the FCX Clarity has started making it a reality. Something that never been expected!
Totally familiar yet distinctly odd, both at the same time.
The great thing about the FCX Clarity is that it’s so completely usable and, in a lot of ways, completely normal. You get in, insert and twist a key, and press the start button. There’s no engine noise to greet you, but you get a few muted whirring and whining noises as you might in a Toyota Prius hybrid.
And because this car looks (even if Honda says it doesn’t), like any number of other D-segment cars, you go about your daily driving barely noticed by most road users. All perfectly ordinary - except that you’re driving one of the most revolutionary cars in the world.
And it’s that realisation that makes driving the FCX Clarity even more remarkable. Here’s a 10sec to 60mph car that’ll sit at 100mph all day, with a range of well over 200 miles, that releases nothing but pure water. It has 134bhp, similar to a lot of family cars. It has 189lb ft of torque, like a lot of family cars. It only takes a couple of minutes to fill its fuel tank, just like a family car. Yet from its exhaust comes nothing but water .
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