Honda Delivers FCX Clarity Hydrogen-powered Fuel Cell Vehicle to Jamie Lee Curtis

Honda Delivers FCX Clarity Hydrogen-powered Fuel Cell Vehicle to Jamie Lee
Curtis
Second FCX Clarity zero-emissions fuel cell vehicle now on the road

TORRANCE, Calif., Aug 5 /PRNewswire/ -- American Honda Motor Co., Inc.,
today announced that its second FCX Clarity customer, Jamie Lee Curtis, took
delivery of the vehicle on July 31, 2008. Curtis and husband Christopher Guest
are the second of approximately 200 customers who will begin leasing the
vehicle in the United States and Japan over the next three years.
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"I really wasn't expecting it to be so luxurious," said Curtis. "It's
luxurious, luxurious, luxurious! I love the interior layout, design and access
to controls. It is user-friendly and very modern."
Actress and children's book author Curtis and her husband, filmmaker
Guest,
live in Santa Monica. They have owned other alternative fuel and hybrid
vehicles and continue to seek out ways to live and advocate a greener
lifestyle.
Ron Yerxa and Annette Ballester, Santa Monica residents, took delivery of
the first FCX Clarity on July 25, 2008.
The FCX Clarity is a next-generation, hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicle.
Significant advances over Honda's previous generation FCX include a 25 percent
increase in combined fuel economy to 72 miles/kg-H2* (74 mpg GGE < miles per
gasoline gallon equivalent >) and a greater than 30 percent increase in
driving range up to 280 miles*. Propelled by an electric motor that runs on
electricity generated in the fuel cell, the vehicle's only by-products are
heat and water, and its fuel efficiency is three times that of a modern
gasoline-powered automobile.
*Based on official 2008 EPA mileage estimates. Use for comparison purposes
only. Your actual mileage will vary depending on how you drive and maintain
your vehicle.
SOURCE American Honda Motor Co., Inc.

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American Honda Motor Co., Inc.