Honda FCX Clarity Fuel Cell Vehicle Lease Program Begins With First Customer Delivery
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World's first Honda FCX Clarity customers Ron Yerxa, center, and wife Annette Ballester receive the ceremonial key to their Honda hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicle from Dan Rowand, sales manager of Honda of Santa Monica, Friday, July 25, 2008 in Santa Monica, Calif. The couple are the first of approximately 200 customers who will lease the vehicle in the United States and Japan, with the vast majority of vehicles being leased in Southern California. Photo/AP, Susan Goldman. (PRNewsFoto/American Honda Motor Co., Inc., Susan Goldman)
TORRANCE, CA UNITED STATES
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World's first Honda FCX Clarity customers Ron Yerxa, center, and wife Annette Ballester get a lesson from Tim Cunningham, Honda fuel cell vehicle program consultant, on how to refuel their hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicle, Friday, July 25, 2008 in West Los Angeles. The couple are the first of approximately 200 customers who will lease the vehicle in the United States and Japan, with the vast majority of vehicles being leased in Southern California. Photo/AP, Susan Goldman. (PRNewsFoto/American Honda Motor Co., Inc., Susan Goldman)
TORRANCE, CA UNITED STATES
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World's first Honda FCX Clarity customer Ron Yerxa sits the behind the wheel of his new hydrogen fuel cell- powered vehicle, Friday, July 25, 2008 in Santa Monica, Calif. Yerxa is the first of approximately 200 customers who will lease the vehicle in the United States and Japan, with the vast majority of vehicles being leased in Southern California. Photo/AP, Susan Goldman. (PRNewsFoto/American Honda Motor Co., Inc., Susan Goldman)
TORRANCE, CA UNITED STATES
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| Zero-emissions vehicle now on the roads of Southern California
TORRANCE, Calif., July 25 /PRNewswire/ -- American Honda Motor Co.,
Inc., today announced that Ron Yerxa and Annette Ballester took delivery of
their hydrogen fuel cell-powered FCX Clarity on Friday, July 25, 2008 at
Honda of Santa Monica, one of three dealerships in Southern California that
are part of the first fuel cell vehicle dealership network. Yerxa and
Ballester are the world's first FCX Clarity customers and the first of
approximately 200 customers who will lease the vehicle in the United States
and Japan over the next three years, with the vast majority of vehicles
being leased in Southern California.
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"The FCX Clarity lease program is one more step toward meeting the
societal goals of climate stability, renewable energy supplies and
zero-emissions transportation," said John Mendel, executive vice president
of American Honda. "With this key step, we are advancing toward the goal of
broader commercialization," Mendel added. "Establishing a dedicated sales
network and service infrastructure provides customers with the best balance
of convenience and the highest level of satisfaction."
Significant advances over Honda's previous generation FCX include a 25
percent increase in combined fuel economy to 72 miles/kg-H2* [74 mpg GGE
(miles per gasoline gallon equivalent)] and a greater than 30 percent
increase in driving range up to 280 miles*. The FCX Clarity is a
next-generation, hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicle. Propelled by an
electric motor that runs on electricity generated in the fuel cell, the
vehicle's only emission is water, and its fuel efficiency is three times
that of a modern gasoline-powered automobile.
* Based on official 2008 EPA mileage estimates. Use for comparison
purposes only. Your actual mileage will vary depending on how you drive
and maintain your vehicle.
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SOURCE American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
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