As Honda continues its journey towards developing fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs), it has decided to form a partnership with H2USA to help promote the research and infrastructure that is currently being worked on to support this kind of vehicle. H2USA is a hydrogen fuel-cell campaign that began back in March to develop cost-effective solutions for bringing hydrogen fuel to the United States.
To explain this partnership further, Vice President of Environmental Business Development, Steven Center, states, "Honda is looking forward to working with the U.S. Department of Energy, other automakers and related stakeholders to expand the market and infrastructure for FCEVs. As the first company to lease a hydrogen-powered fuel cell electric vehicle to retail consumers (Honda FCX) in the U.S., we believe FCEVs are important to the future of electric-drive, zero-emission transportation."1
Several other automakers and research teams are busy working on making hydrogen-powered vehicles a possibility as well. Most recently, a team from Duke made an impressive development by successfully being able to remove all of the carbon monoxide from the process of hydrogen formation. With this kind of progress and all of the partnerships that are forming to conquer this research, FCEV are becoming more and more of a reality.
Here at Steve Hopkins Honda we are quite excited to see how this research continues to develop. Be sure to continue following our blog so we can keep you updated on all of the latest news.
We also encourage you to visit our Fairfield, CA dealership to see what our new Honda models have to offer in terms of fuel efficiency. We'd be happy to answer any questions that you may have and schedule you for a test drive with the model that piques your interests!
Source: 1http://www.hondanews.com/channels/corporate-headlines/releases/american-honda-motor-co-inc-statement-on-joining-the-h2usa-partnership-to-promote-fuel-cell-electric-vehicles-and-infrastructure
