The High Price of Hydrogen: Honda Clarity Fuel Cell Will Sticker for Nearly $60K
Michael Jackson, a Southern Californian singing earth songs (“What about the common man" / What about hy-dro-gen"”), might have been Honda’s ideal celebrity customer for the first FCX Clarity. Sadly, the King of Pop is still dead and hydrogen cars remain expensive and available only to Californians. That’s true for Toyota, it’s true for Hyundai (the only other two automakers selling hydrogen-powered cars here), and it’s the case also for the new Honda Clarity Fuel Cell, which will cost some $60,000 when it arrives in California late this year.
Initially, Honda will lease the Clarity Fuel Cell for just under $500 per month (Honda didn’t specify the down payment or the lease duration); later it will open the car to regular sale “coincident with increasing vehicle supplies and the growing hydrogen refueling station network.” Or never. But let’s look on the bright side: That’s an improvement over the FCX Clarity’s lease-only $600-per-month deal when it launched in 2008. And while the Clarity is disqualified from any federal tax credits since it’s not a battery-electric car, California will hand out a $5000 cash rebate, which goes directly to the purchaser or lessee.
Californians who’ve passed Honda’s screening process?an application, some phone calls, but not, we’re told, an interview or a home visit?can order one in Los Angeles and Orange counties, plus the San Francisco...
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