Honda FCX

Seems like Honda is releasing the first few production units of their new FCX Clarity hydrogen fuel cell vehicle hot on the tails of BMW's Hydrogen 7.

But the debate is still on as to whether this is a good thing or not. Aside from all of the difficulties associated with storing and transporting hydrogen, it is really more of an energy carrier than a fuel source in its own right. The claim is one of Zero Emissions and sure the FCX doesn't produce emissions directly itself but it still needs to be turned into hydrogen in the first instance and there is the rub. So unless that is being done with electrolysis generated from renewable clean energy then there will still be emissions produced during production.

But like so many other alternative fuel vehicles, only a small hand full are being released and then only to those select few scattered primarily in Hollywood. But with hydrogen fuelling stations few and far between it wouldn't do you and I much good anyhow. I had a chance to sit in the Hydrogen 7 a few months back and I seem to recall the BMW rep saying that there was only one fuelling station in the entire UK...