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Not an hour after my chat with Tom Williams, another driver of a 2008 Chevrolet Equinox FCEV as part of GM Project Driveway, he leaves a message on my cell phone:
“When I drove up to downtown L.A. from Orange County today, I got 60 miles to the kilogram. I don’t know about you, but I love that.”
It’s the kind of excitement I’m used to hearing from truly motivated Prius owners. By any standard, the hydrogen-fueled Chevy Equinox fuel cell electric vehicle qualifies as alternative-fuel exotica, as rare and fascinating as it is expensive and impractical.
You can call it the 2008 Chevrolet Equinox FCEV (FCEV as in fuel cell electric vehicle), but this is no production vehicle. Only General Motors knows what it costs to build these SUVs, but each of these prototypes is probably worth the equivalent of 10 Tesla Roadsters.
For the next 72 hours, though, I’m going to drive our Chevrolet Equinox FCEV test vehicle like it’s an ordinary, ,000 Chevy Equinox LTZ. Of course, the FCEV’s 150-mile range prevents me from leaving the green dreamland of Southern California. A Chevrolet dealership will probably never be more than five miles away, and specially trained OnStar advisors are waiting to take my call.
As a participant in the hydrogen-powered GM Project Driveway, I even have my own Driver Relationship Manager. She tells me I can call her cell any time, day or night. Not even my mom wants to talk to me that often.
ford is big in europ
Well if you did your research you would know that GM is world wide dumb ass.
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It drives like a regular car, it functions like a regular car, and it looks like a regular piece of shit Yank car. SORRY!, but thats why NO ONE else in the world will buy one! What American brand has made it big, and then I mean BIG in Europe, Asia, Australia or even Africa for the last 50 years? NONE, Sorry! Just the truth. Yank cars are crap!!!!
hydrogen is not zero emissions. its stripped out of hydrogen gas. meaning gasoline will cost allot and heating your home will too.
XD its true :D:D:D
lets ALL not go to our jobs driving a car,not buy any fuel or oil or use any fueled transport for a at least a month and there’s your ride.think about that one… .
Hope they get more stations for Hydrogen stations. Since its fairly easy to build.
It’s miles u idiot. and show me hydro euro car u french pussy.
like every shit american car production it takes 34223453453 liters per 100 km xD americans just can’t build anything
and how much does its intake in 100 km or mile
awesome
Oops sorry – I meant the aquisition of Daewoo from Chevy
Well I think this idea has come up after the aquisition of KIA from Chevy. There is still some asian influence in there, but still – about FU”@# time !
LOL it sux around corners
lol my thoughts exactly, and why is its tank so big?
But ofc Wind, Solar and Hydro is very good alternatives, but as of yet Wind and Solar are just that bit off from being reliable alternatives. Fossil Fuel will be burnt way past our lifetimes, but hopefully with more pollutants removed.
theannoyingdogpoo… heh funny but seriusly. The fact that your main source of power is coal “according to you”, then really i dont see a problem. Let me explain, the fact that every guy on earth drives a car which spewes many gasses which harms… everything, is bad. BUT a large scale coal/oil plant will have much less “pollutants” its still there but considerably less as its regulated and many of the bad pollutants are taken away. The inneffecincy is in the car, not the powerplant.
well, honda has had the Fuel Cell FCX ever since 1997, and of course america was a dick not to let it come here. And mazda has made demio fuel cells, and the rest are working on it now. Go figure.
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Sure, sounds great. But what is the cost of a full tank tho?
as long as this is cheaper then gas right now i don’t care what it looks like
not true, if that were true, then all the japanese car owned companies here would have released them in the U.S.
about time america got into this, japan’s been doing it for years.
This is a joke. Why, you may ask? Well here’s a reason why, first off the hydrogen is there to create electricity for the “electric” motor. Which is great but, why doesn’t GM skip the hydrogen gas tanks and use a battery pack for a range of about the same 150 mile range?
It’s easier to build wind farms, hydro-plants and solar panel fields as long as the nations power grid updated to accept the new technology. My reason for this is simple, we have to get hydrogen power from some oil company.