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Selected Southern Californians can drive it next summer for $600 a month, 3-year lease, get a range of 270 miles, combined FE of 68mpg (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21796636/)

http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/501/2008_Honda_FCX_Clarity.jpgRoland Jones - MSNBC - Nov. 19, 2007

LOS ANGELES - With its environmentally friendly focus, the Los Angeles auto show has gained a reputation as a venue where the world’s automakers show off the latest and greatest alternative-fuel ideas.

Now, instead of a pipe dream for car engineers, one of those forward-thinking technologies looks a step closer to widespread adoption.

As the show kicked off this week, Honda unveiled its new FCX Clarity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_FCX_Clarity), powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. The sleek, low-slung sedan — which Honda plans to begin leasing to a limited number of Southern California drivers next summer — is fashioned after a concept vehicle Honda unveiled in 2005. The car will be available on a three-year lease for $600 a month, making it the first fuel-cell car to be offered to the general public… http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21796636/

This is exciting a real production hydrogen fuel cell car available to the public before 2010. I hope it doesn't follow the path of the EV1.

I read somewhere that they include the charging station in the lease. It's hooked up to your natural gas and can power your house in emergencies. Looks like a winner to me.

It's nice to see some these being built for the average consumer. Even though it's only a very small number, but you have to start somewhere. Kudos to Honda!:woot:

A PHEV-20 would be perfect for me. I could get to work, plug in, and get home. And I could get to Roanoke to visit my family. That's not to say I wouldn't gladly drive one of the other choices.

Hi All:

___At current prices for any of the above, the iCDTi would be in my stable for both the short and long haul drives. If price were not a factor, by all means the EV would be the daily driver for anything within 200 miles and the iCDTi still being held for the long drives.

___Good Luck

___Wayne