Roughly over two years ago, Honda launched the FCX Clarity, the worlds first commercially manufactured and sold hydrogen powered car. The car is commercially available in California. There are many positive sides of using a hydrogen powered car, the main benefit is that its byproduct is only water, and it uses hydrogen which is abundant in our atmosphere.
Honda is seeing slow growth in this market as the number of refuelling stations are limited. Market leading car reviewers, tested the car on all aspects and gave it many positives on comparison to its electric powered green siblings. Electric cars have to be standstill for many hours to be recharged, whereas a hydrogen powered car is just like a conventional car, where you refuel like you do on a normal petrol/diesel car and also travels almost similar distances before the need for refuelling arises again, whereas electric cars are very limited on the distance it covers before it drains out completely.
Governments worldwide should take swift action to encourage more hydrogen refuelling stations. One of the main issues around getting around this is the way the entire world, its economy and etc etc., around the oil industry. Oil has been the main fuel resource up until very recent years and the worlds largest economies depend on their investments in this area for future. There are much more issues around this topic, which puts a lot of pressure on governments on any effort to move away from the use of oil.
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