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Honda FCX Concept
Author: <ADMINNICENAME>08.12.2006
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Simply put, a fuel cell is battery that can be continually replenished with hydrogen. The fuel cell stack takes in the hydrogen, tickles its electrons away and sends them off to boot camp in an electric motor. Once the electrons have produced useful work as electricity, they are then reunited with the leftover portion of the hydrogen atom, married to oxygen and form water. They then live a life of yard work, screaming kids and TV sitcoms.
Two tanks, filled with hydrogen compressed to 5,000 psi, are located between its rear wheels, giving the FCX Concept a reported driving range of about 350 miles. Like all things mileage-related, range will vary with driving style, ambient temperature and planetary alignment, but it’s still a healthy jump over the 210-mile range of the current FCX. The latest stack — designed and manufactured by Honda — can be started in minus-20-degrees-Fahrenheit weather conditions.
Flooring the “gas” pedal results in instantaneous and seamless thrust, giving the FCX Concept noticeably more grunt than the current FCX. The FCX Concept pulls itself forward in eerie silence, with just a whine from the screw-type compressor required to pressurize the stack with oxygen. In fact, the entire driving experience is similarly uneventful, which demonstrates just how significant an accomplishment the FCX Concept is. This is a car that, with only refueling as a notable exception, compromises little to nothing of what consumers have grown to expect from modern cars, yet does it producing only water vapor from the tailpipe.
Its electric motor is rated at 127 horsepower and 189 pound-feet of torque, allowing the FCX Concept to reach a top speed of 100 mph. Since much of this torque is available at very low speeds and is assisted by a lithium-ion battery, acceleration from a standstill is respectably brisk. On the track, the car reached speeds approaching 80 mph in the space of 0.3 mile along Laguna’s main straight, which has a slight rise before Turn One. There was room to go faster, but since it wasn’t our multimillion-dollar prototype, we took it easy.
March 13th, 2007 at 3:28 am
Honda FCX Goes to a 17-Year Old Customer…
A production model of the Honda FCX fuel cell vehicle has been given to its new owner. American Honda Motor Co., Inc gave the keys to 17-year old actress Q’orianka Kilcher, the newest and youngest owner of the Honda FCX. For those of you who don’t kn…