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Title: Power out? Plug your house into the new Honda Hydrogen Car
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URL Source: http://mashable.com/2015/10/27/honda-clarity-fuel-cell/#GZfEWH7zFGqX
Published: Oct 27, 2015
Author: Nick Jaynes
Post Date: 2015-10-28 19:50:14 by Operation 40
Keywords: Hydrogen, sustainable, Energy
Views: 2021
Comments: 8
Honda's hydrogen fuel cell sedan can power your entire house Honda unveiled its first production hydrogen-powered fuel cell sedan, the Clarity Fuel Cell, at the Tokyo Motor Show on Tuesday. Though Honda has dabbled in hydrogen power since the late 1980s, the five-passenger Clarity Fuel Cell sedan is the first hydrogen-powered model that the Japanese carmaker has intended to offer up to the public. A quick refresher on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles: The cars transform hydrogen — in a unit called the fuel cell stack — into electricity, which is fed to a lithium-ion battery pack and out to an electric motor that turns the drive wheels. Essentially, think of it as an electric vehicle that can be refilled in three minutes and emits only water vapor out of its tailpipes. The Clarity Fuel Cell represents a leap forward for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs). Honda has managed to shrink the size of the hydrogen fuel cell stack by 33%, down to the size of a V6 gasoline engine. This compact shape allows designers to fit it underneath the hood of the car — a first for FCVs. Until this point fuel cells have been so large that they needed to be packaged elsewhere in the vehicle, like in Toyota's Mirai, which has its fuel cell stack in the center of the vehicle, cutting into interior space...snip Acceleration aside, Honda has revealed another cool feature of the Clarity Fuel Cell. When plugged into another Honda gizmo called the Power Exporter 9000, the Clarity Fuel Cell can produce enough electricity to power an average home for approximately seven days — perfect during a natural disaster or run of the mill power outage. Granted, Honda likely means an average Japanese house, not an American home. So that number will likely come down a bit when the Power Exporter 9000 comes Stateside...snip Car and Driver: Tomorrowland: We Drive Honda’s New Clarity Fuel-Cell Vehicle Visiting Japan from the United States means crossing the International Date Line—quite literally traveling into the future. This was not lost on us when we visited Honda’s research and development center in Tochigi in advance of the Tokyo Motor Show for an extremely limited drive of its third-generation fuel-cell vehicle, which is known as the Clarity Fuel Cell (note: no FCX prefix)... 
The Honda Power Exporter
Read full article: http://mashable.com/2015/10/27/honda-clarity-fuel-cell/
http://blog.caranddriver.com/tomorrowland-we-drive-hondas-new-fuel-cell-vehicle/
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Here is how the dodo bird came to it's demise... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo Wonder how long it will be before we can read about the demise of the hydrogen vehicles???
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