Submitted by Serge Vecher (not verified) on May 29, 2009 - 11:16am.
"the other electric car on the market today, the Honda Clarity."
Would Mr. Tamminen please enlighten us as to where exactly can one *purchase* a Honda Clarity FCX?
Granted your stated race parameters, let's compare apples to apples, shall we?
1. For the cost of 1 Honda FCX Clarity, estimated at a cool $1M (http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/FirstDrives/articleId=123662...) Team Battery can post a freshly charged luxury sports car at every intermediate location and pass the baton to victory.
2. If the race is held in any conceivable short-term time frame HFCX won't even make it out of LA area. In the meanwhile electrical grid is at Team Battery's disposal.
3. Being this is a "Climate Action Blog", could you please describe the climate impact of producing hydrogen from natural gas? Or perhaps the waste of renewable energy on electrolyzing water and compressing hydrogen to reasonable volumes?
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"the other electric car on the market today, the Honda Clarity."
Would Mr. Tamminen please enlighten us as to where exactly can one *purchase* a Honda Clarity FCX?
Granted your stated race parameters, let's compare apples to apples, shall we?
1. For the cost of 1 Honda FCX Clarity, estimated at a cool $1M (http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/FirstDrives/articleId=123662...) Team Battery can post a freshly charged luxury sports car at every intermediate location and pass the baton to victory.
2. If the race is held in any conceivable short-term time frame HFCX won't even make it out of LA area. In the meanwhile electrical grid is at Team Battery's disposal.
3. Being this is a "Climate Action Blog", could you please describe the climate impact of producing hydrogen from natural gas? Or perhaps the waste of renewable energy on electrolyzing water and compressing hydrogen to reasonable volumes?
Who is the winner again?