Honda has started production of the FCX Clarity hydrogen powered car with limited sales due in the US and Japan this year.

Honda’s advanced hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicle, came off the line at the world’s first dedicated fuel cell vehicle manufacturing facility in Japan.

After 19 years of development, the arrival of this ‘real world’ fuel cell car marks the beginning of a new era of cleaner motoring.

The FCX Clarity only emits water from its exhaust pipe. Among the early adopters of the car are the actress Jamie Lee Curtis and her filmmaker husband Christopher Guest, and the film producer Ron Yerxa.

A new dedicated fuel cell vehicle assembly line has been established by Honda, which includes processes unique to a fuel cell vehicle such as the installation of the fuel cell stack and hydrogen tank. Honda produces all fuel cell stacks.

In manufacturing fuel cells, exclusively-designed automated equipment was introduced to ensure quality of the highest precision while enabling mass production of cells, with several hundred cells required for each fuel cell stack.

Honda is making progress in the area of fuel cell vehicle production as well as to fuel cell and fuel cell vehicle technologies. Honda is moving closer to its goal of more wide-spread use of fuel cell vehicles.

The FCX Clarity was designed from scratch as a dedicated fuel cell vehicle. It is powered by the compact, efficient and powerful Honda V Flow fuel cell stack.

It boasts a low-slung, dynamic and sophisticated appearance made possible by the layout of the fuel cell power plant.

Honda claims that the FCX Clarity offers superior design and driving performance as well as environmental responsibility.

Lease sales are scheduled to begin in July in the U.S. and in the autumn in Japan. The combined sales plan for Japan and the U.S. is for a few dozen units within a year and about 200 units within three years.

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