From Green Right Now Reports
Hyundai Motor’s Tucson ix Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV) is making its U.S. public debut at Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Energy 2011 in Washington, D.C. this week.
Hyundai will test about 50 new Tucson ix FCEVs throughout 2011 as part of the second phase of the Korean Government Validation [...]
Tags: · Dr. Tae Won Lim, Fuel Cell & Hydrogen Energy 2011, Fuel Cell Vehicles, greenrightnow.com, Hyundai Motor, managing director of Hyundai Motor Company's Fuel Cell Vehicle Group, Tucson ix Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle
Jennifer Drukker expected people would stare at her new car. What she didn’t expect was this: “I was at the first stop light after I’d driven off with the car. It was literally the first time I came to a stop after driving off with the car,” she recalls. “The driver of the car next to me rolls down the windows and starts shouting questions.”
If it seems an extreme response to a Chevrolet Equinox, a fairly mainstream SUV, consider that the paint job includes the word “fuel cell” on the sides.
Fuel cell vehicles that turn abundant hydrogen into electricity are one promising alternative to gasoline-burning, toxic-fume-spewing internal-combustion engines. Widespread availability of such cars – which emit water vapor instead of greenhouse gases and stuff that’s flat out unhealthy – is years in the future.
But for Jennifer Drukker, Jamie Lee Curtis (yes, that one) and a handful of other drivers, the future is now.
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