Saturday, January 20, 2007

Honda to Launch Fuel-Cell Cars in General Market by 2018

A post on the Auto Channel reports: The AP reported that Honda Motor Co. expects to have begun selling fuel-cell vehicles in the general market by 2018, a news report said Friday.

"In 2018, I believe the development (of a fuel-cell car) will have been very advanced," Honda President Takeo Fukui was quoted as saying, by Kyodo News agency, in an interview in Tokyo on Dec. 25.

Kyodo said Fukui was confident that many customers will want to buy a fuel-cell car if it costs no more than about 10 million yen ($84,000).

The only reason that I post this news is that it reaffirms my belief that fuel cell vehicles are a long way off and that they will be expensive even then.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Good words.