Why Honda is Saving the World

Yes indeed its another post from the beloved boys in Britain, on Top Gear. And this time I would like to discuss the other 'car of the future' that Top Gear highlighted in the episode on the Tesla Roadster. At the end of the episode host James May travels to California to test drive the Honda FCX Clarity, a hydrogen powered vehicle. The Clarity is only avaliable in California, and looks... just like a four door sedan, it looks no different than the Honda Accords and Toyota Camrys of today. And as James May reports, it drives like them too, just like a normal car. The only difference is that is is fueled by hydrogen, which is just like gasoline, except it is the most abundant element in the world. The one moving part motor is powered by electricity from the hydrogen fuel. The more amazing thing is that filling up a hydrogen car is just like filling up a petrol car, you pull into a hydrogen fueling station (the one May uses is a Shell station) and fill it up like you're putting gas in your petrol-head. It takes no longer than refueling a car today, (you get about 270 miles a tank) and furthermore, hydrogen will never ever run out. The FCX Clarity has emissions of course, but only water vaport will come out of the exhaust pipe, because what do you get when you mix H and O? H20 of course. And now on to the fun stuff, the speed. It does 0-60 in 9 seconds, and boasts 136 horsepower. Now I've been raving about this car for awhile and I'd like to sum it up in the statement James May makes at the end of the segment that the Honda Clarity is the car of the future, because it is just like the car of today. It doesn't go for a dissapointing amount, then take hours on end to recharge, and the fuel will never run out. And that is why Honda is saving us from a very slow, painful, lack of oil-related death.