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FIGURE 5.21 Honda Motor Company s hydrogen-fuelled FCX fuel-cell car with a range of 170 miles and a top speed of 93 mph. (Courtesy of Ballard Power Systems.)... 

In addition to GM, DaimlerChrysler, Ford Motor Company, Honda Motor Company, Toyota Motor Corp. and others have spent billions developing alternative-fuel vehicles. GM has vowed to become the first car-maker to sell a million fuel cell vehicles and expects to have them on the market by 2010. 

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Wet blast phosphating was first developed some 15 years ago in co-operation with the Yamashita Rubber Company, who make anti-vibration rubber and bond it to supporting metal parts exclusively for the Honda Motor Company. 

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In 1997, Toyota Motor Company launched electric hybrid vehicles into the world market, followed by Nissan and Honda a few years later. They were very popular because of the good fuel economy and the increasing interest in global environmental issue. Therefore, all of the car manufacturers worldwide accelerated their research and development for hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) technology. Although the batteries used for HEV by Toyota and Honda are nickel-metal hydride (Ni-MH) batteries and they are major batteries in the field at present, the pressure for development is put on not Ni-MH but lithium because of the superior characteristics in power, weight, heat generation, and so on to Ni-MH. 

The members include companies and organizations from around the world DaimlerChrysler, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Nissan, Toyota, and Volkswagen Ballard Power Systems, UTC Fuel Cells BP, ExxonMobil, Shell Hydrogen, and ChevronTexaco and the California Air Resources Board, the California Energy Commission, the United States Department of Energy, the United States Department of Transportation and the South Coast Air Quality Management District. 

In 2005, Honda became the first company to put a FCV in the hands of a consumer. To gather real world data, Honda selected one family near their California headquarters to lease for 500 per month their experimental FCV, the FCX. Honda also built a fueling station near the family s house. Hakim (2005) reports the vehicle is worth about 1 million. The FCX has an electric motor, rated at 107 horsepower (hp). Initial reports from the family are positive. In addition to the positive reviews of the FCX, the first leasee notes an added benefit "I don t like our dependence on foreign oil. I think it causes us to do a lot of stupid things as a country" (Hakim 2005). 

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