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Honda unveiled a fuel cell concept sports car, the FC Sport, at its press event, and had the FCX Clarity in the “Green Car” ride-and-drive held in conjunction with the Green Car of the Year program.
Volkswagen held a media event prior to the show at which it offered drives in three different fuel cell vehicles: the Touran minivan, Tiguan SUV and Passat Lingyu, a sedan developed in China. VW also detailed its advances in high-temperature fuel cells, a breakthrough it claims will allow simpler and cheaper fuel cell stack configuration because it will require less complicated cooling than other versions.
Kia unveiled its second-generation fuel cell vehicle, the Borrego FCEV at its press conference. This vehicle has a power stack that is almost 50 percent more powerful than the previous generation and uses a supercapacitor for energy storage, but also delivers an impressive 54 miles to the gallon.
Nissan had its fuel cell vehicle, the X-Trail FCV, in the ride-and-drive. The new fuel cell stack in the Nissan doubles the power density of the previous generation stack and also achieves a 35 percent cost reduction mainly due to using half the platinum of earlier versions.
General Motors also had its Chevy Equinox FCV in the ride-and-drive program, one of 100 being used in its Project Driveway program that has thousands of regular citizens as well as key influencers evaluating daily life with a fuel cell vehicle.