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(A Honda engineer, left rear, shows the couple who had just taken delivery of the US' first leased FCX Clarity, how to 'fill 'er up!' at a West Los Angeles Shell station recently fitted for hydrogen storage and pumping; the Honda dealership handling the lease is about three miles from this gas station ... What a coincidence, huh? And, yes, that's the car its-own-self, glaring at the camera ... You'd think Honda PR people would take better photos, wouldn't you?)
 History isn’t usually made at car dealerships, at least pleasant histories, but last Saturday that’s exactly what happened at Honda of Santa Monica, CA, when it delivered a new car, unlike any other, and about which few people could complain.
Local Southern California residents Ron Yerxa and Annette Ballester got the keys to the first FCX Clarity hydrogen fuel cell EV sedan in America. About 200 of the vehicles will be leased over the next three years around the country. Southern California will have three Honda stores with personnel factory-trained to sell, deliver, service and maintain these truly groundbreaking family sedans.
The timing of Honda getting their FCX cars on the roads of America couldn’t have been better. Just a  month ago, a Shell gas station in West Los Angeles, just a few miles from the Honda of Santa Monica store, was outfitted with the equipment to store and sell hydrogen, one of about 45 places in the country where hydrogen is available to the public. Honda, at their US headquarters in Gardena, CA, also has hydrogen fuel “pumps” for filling-up hydrogen fuel cell-powered vehicles.
(General Motors/Chevrolet Equinox hydrogen fuel cell-powered CUV, seen here at the most-recent Los Angeles Auto Show, is also hitting the road in California, New York City and Washington, DC).
[SOURCE: CARNUT - READ THE FULL ARTICLE]
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