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Wed Jun 11, 2014, 09:37 AM Jun 2014

Hyundai delivers hydrogen electric Tucson SUV to first U.S. customer

June 11, 2014 Automotive News



LOS ANGELES (Bloomberg) -- Hyundai has started retail leasing of its hydrogen-powered Tucson crossover as the South Korean carmaker and competitors look to expand the market for alternative zero-emission electric vehicles.

The automaker said Tuesday’s delivery of the small SUV to Tim Bush, a Newport Beach, Calif.-based insurance agent, is the first of a “mass-produced” fuel cell auto to a retail customer. The company is promoting the Tucson, already in fleets in Korea and Europe, with a $499-a-month lease in California that includes unlimited hydrogen refueling for three years.

“Fuel-cell technology is not intended to replace electric vehicles,” Dave Zuchowski, chief executive officer of Hyundai’s U.S. sales unit, said Tuesday at a Hyundai dealership in Tustin, Calif. “We see it as the next electric vehicle, but with no compromises.”

Hyundai will be followed in 2015 by Toyota and Honda in marketing hydrogen vehicles to drivers in California, Japan, Korea and Europe. The companies say that by making electricity needed for power on board, rather than storing it in batteries, fuel cell vehicles offer greater driving range and versatility than rechargeable cars such as the Nissan Leaf or the BMW i3 hatchback...

MORE: http://www.autonews.com/article/20140611/OEM05/140619971/hyundai-delivers-hydrogen-tucson-to-first-u-s-customer

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This Hyundai will be fueled with hydrogen made from sewage-one thing the US still has in abundance.
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3027144/this-new-hyundai-car-runs-on-the-poop-of-california-residents-and-the-fuel-is-free

New hydrogen fueling stations can be installed almost anywhere in just 48 hours. And if they are powered by solar panels the fuel is free (after the panels are paid for) and green! Watch a fueling station installation:

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Twenty Hydrogen Myths- A peer reviewed white paper by noted environmentalist Amory Lovins: http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/E03-05_TwentyHydrogenMyths

Including Myth #3. Making hydrogen uses more energy than it yields, so it’s prohibitively inefficient
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Hyundai delivers hydrogen electric Tucson SUV to first U.S. customer (Original Post) nationalize the fed Jun 2014 OP
Hyundai will be fueled with hydrogen made from sewage WhiteTara Jun 2014 #1
kick this is huge nationalize the fed Jun 2014 #2

nationalize the fed

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2. kick this is huge
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 09:24 PM
Jun 2014

no more oil required. No more smog.



Huge. Game changing. The biggest thing to happen to cars since cars were born.

Jack Nicholson knew how big this is.

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