Click above for a gallery of the FCX Clarity The LA Times’ Dan Neil loves electric cars . He also loves just how beautiful the Honda FCX Clarity is. What he doesn’t like is that the Clarity uses a hydrogen fuel cell. Plug In America’s Paul Scott, writing as an individual, not on behalf of PIA, I hasten to add, says that Neil’s recent article , “pounds the final nail in the coffin of fuel cell vehicles.” I doubt this is true, but Neil certainly doesn’t mince words. He calls the Clarity, “the most expensive, advanced and impractical car ever built” and adds: Hydrogen fuel-cell technology won’t work in cars. It’s a tragic cul-de-sac in the search for sustainable mobility, being used to game the California Air Resources Board’s rules requiring carmakers to build zero-emission vehicles. Any way you look at it, hydrogen is a lousy way to move cars . Not exactly subtle, is it? It is totally true that the automakers have gotten hydrogen vehicles on the road way before the infrastructure builders figured out a way to effectively get hydrogen to market. As Scott writes in a recent email, “While Dan’s words should smother this foolish idea [hydrogen cars], its heart will keep beating until Schwarzenegger and Obama finally pull the plug and deny them any more of our money.” Neil ends his article this way: “Behold, the grand and lovely futility of the FCX Clarity. It’s hard to scold something so wonderful, so I won’t. Just bring me one that I can plug in.” For more of Neil’s always-interesting pontifications, listen to this . Gallery: 2009 Honda FCX Clarity First drive [Source: LA Times ] Auto Blog: EV/Plug-in , Hydrogen , Green Daily Oh, if only the beautiful FCX Clarity came with a plug originally appeared on AutoblogGreen on Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Car Blog Green | Car Blog Green | Car Blog Green | Car Blog Green

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Oh, if only the beautiful FCX Clarity came with a plug