Comments on: Honda FCX Clarity wins 2009 World Green Car

By: Millatime

Millatime — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:05:46 +0000

World Green Car Awards press conference hosted by Mobil 1? WTF?

Brilliant car, the only possible winner.

By: timmy201

timmy201 — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:27:50 +0000

Nice, especially like the two-dimensional wheels

By: lazybones

lazybones — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:53:07 +0000

“At the moment Honda, Mazda and BMW seem to be the only ones serious about it.”

http://www.hydrogencarsnow.com/

There’s plenty of players there, infact i’d say BMW & Mazda who are foolishly chasing Hydrogen via combustion technology are least likely to ever have a production car.

“I think I payed about 350 pounds for my first iPod because it was new technology”

No, because it was made by Apple. But your point is very true :)

My 2nd question is, Jamie is standing at a pump station. So what is the published price for Hydrogen as of today? My first question was does she still look good naked?

By: Falcodore

Falcodore — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:45:11 +0000

When governments start investing in hydrogen infrastructure then you’ll see more car companies develop this technology.

At the moment Honda, Mazda and BMW seem to be the only ones serious about it.

By: Falcodore

Falcodore — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:41:01 +0000

Well said Alex, took the words right out of my mouth.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:51:11 +0000

Nick’s got it wrong, Joe’s got it right.
It’s just a bit of a vicious circle right now. No cars because there’s nowhere to fill them up, nowhere to fill up because there’s no cars.
Hydrogen will be the way forward. As far as I know, it’s sustainable, it gives us scope to have alternatively fueled super cars as impressive as the ones we have now within a small amount of time and there is no reason to think that hydrogen will be expensive. It just needs to get started. Just like iPods. I think I payed about 350 pounds for my first iPod because it was new technology but the other week I bought a new one for half that price with about twenty times the memory of my first one.
Hydrogen won’t be cheap at the beginning, just like iPods weren’t, but after a while they’ll be as cheap and common as anything else. You’ve just got to give them a chance and not keep trying to find things wrong with them. Get with the times.

By: Shak

Shak — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:22:08 +0000

SO true joe, if we can just get peoples attention of those blasted hybrids then maybe companies will reaact and start to develop hydrogen. Cars such as the rius and insight stikr discord within me. i realyy hate them!!!!!!!!!

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:11:12 +0000

Nick, hydrogen WILL be the way forward. What Top Gear said was only information that was already pretty well known. The only major problem at the moment is getting refilling stations set up.

Obviously without the cars around it’s going to be hard to get the stations set up, and without the stations there’s no point in buying the cars. But once that problem is sorted (which it will be, whether completely privately or more likely, with government support) it’s simply a matter of refining the technology and getting them on sale.

And I think any praise put on hydrogen fueled cars is a good thing. Get peoples attention off hybrids for two seconds.

By: swampdawg

swampdawg — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:28:36 +0000

Hummerbug Says:
April 14th, 2009 at 3:56 pm Hey is that Jamie Lee Curtis standing next to that barge of a car??

Yeah, not as good as her ‘Trading Places’ movie parts, mmm

By: QwKEddie

QwKEddie — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:48:44 +0000

I’m sure if it was a carppy VW we wouldn’t see all these negative comments!

By: nick

nick — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:35:33 +0000

Shouldn’t this award go to mass produced, commercialy viable vehicles. Not prototype’s released to select members of the public for testing. This car is “symbolic” of the wasted energy used by Honda in search of an environmentaly friendly vehicle. Hydrogen is too expensive, and going no where no matter what Top Gear has to say.

By: Dlr1

Dlr1 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:15:35 +0000

perhaps it should be “southern californian” green car of the year. only 3 dealers can lease you a car for 3 years at $600pm. smells like an EV-1. and there will only be 200 of them too.

By: S

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:04:20 +0000

World car of the year for a vehicle you can only get in 1 or 2 countries…

By: Hummerbug

Hummerbug — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:56:16 +0000

Hey is that Jamie Lee Curtis standing next to that barge of a car??

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:54:35 +0000

Well of course it won! If any thing else had it would have been down to pay offs or dreadfully uneducated panelists. Honda need to fund hydrogen fill up stations in more places and get this technology out there! It’s vital to the future of cars that hybrids be ignored (car companies, we are still going to run out of oil at some point) and hydrogen be devolped.