Costing in the millions of thousands, Honda’s first hydrogen-powered car, the FCX Clarity, sounds more like a prototype than a production car model, but Honda’s hydrogen car is the real deal, despite which is out of the price range of 99% of all consumers!
With plans to make 200 of the FCX Clarity, Honda has already lined up a few buyers, five to be exact. It probably won’t surprise you that three of them are in the entertainment industry. Lucky client number 1 is film producer Ron Yerxa. He produced the sleeper hit Little Miss Sunshine, Cold Mountain, and several other movies and TV shows, so I guess producing movies is pretty lucrative. Jamie Lee Curtis and her husband, Christopher Guest, are also buying one of Honda’s hydrogen cars and then there’s an actress I’ve never heard of, Laura Harris, which surprises me because I didn’t think the unknown actors would do so much. money, but since she works a lot on TV, she’ll probably do pretty well.
The other two new owners are also California residents. Jim Salomen is a business owner and car enthusiast and Jon Spallino is also a businessman. So it’s not all glamor and glitter. Actually, Jon Spallino is very lucky. He has been driving the first generation Honda hydrogen car since the summer of 2005, on a lease from Honda for $500 a month. That actually doesn’t sound too bad.
However, if you want to get your hands on one of Honda’s new hydrogen cars, having money isn’t enough. Actually, you have to live close enough to a gas station and service location to be able to use the car. After all, you can only travel 270 miles before needing a recharge. To cater to its new customers, Honda is setting up three fuel cell car dealerships in California, so it looks like cars will be in fairly short supply outside of sunny Southern California.
In a sense, new Honda customers will help Honda beta-test its new vehicle, in preparation for the next generation of hydrogen-powered cars a few years from now. However, don’t expect the price to drop below $100K anytime soon. But even if the zero-emission hydrogen fuel cell car doesn’t become the standard in the future because of its cost, at least Honda and some buyers are willing to step up to experiment with ways to move away from such reliance. of fossil fuels. fuels
