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General Motors will have a hydrogen fuel cell car on sale by 2012, according to one of the company’s leading engineers.
“With our current rate of development 2012 seems like a reasonable date to have a solution”, the highly-placed source told Autocar. He also gave strong hints that the system will be available in the Chevrolet Volt, which is due to be introduced in 2010 as a plug-in electric car.
GM has already claimed that it will be the first car maker to sell one million fuel cell vehi...Read the full article

Actually Honda does not 'sell' the FCX, it is leased at a heavily subsidized rate. I believe the generally accepted figure for the true cost of each FCX is around 1 million US dollars. At $600/month, Honda is engaging in a PR and marketing exercise. I'm not sure what their advertising is like in the UK, but in America all Honda's ads stress their 'greeness'. The FCX is all part of a larger plan in California (along with Governor Schwarzenegger's 'Hydrogen Highway') to promote themselves as the 'Greenest Car Company in America'. Whatever that means.