Dueling Fuel-Cell Cars: GM Vs. Honda
October 24, 2007

TOKYO –— Honda announced at the Tokyo Motor Show that at the upcoming Los Angeles show it will introduce a new hydrogen-powered fuel-cell vehicle based on the FCX concept, displayed here and at past shows. Honda will begin deliveries of the car to customers in the U.S. and Japan next year.

Honda executives on the sidelines were quick to point out that it will allow customers — both retail and fleet — to actually lease the fuel-cell vehicles on their own in contrast to General Motors’ recent program.

GM this week launched Project Driveway, a Chevrolet market test that will deploy more than 100 Chevrolet Equinox hydrogen-powered vehicles to families and celebrities in New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. Drivers get to use the vehicles for three months.

Honda already has leased a fuel-cell vehicle to an individual customer with a second customer added in 2007.

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