"They'll tell you that after the first week, they pretty much forget it's a fuel cell car, which indicates to us that we have accomplished our goal of making the fuel cell transparent to the consumer," Daniel O'Connell, GM fuel cell commercialization director was quoted as saying by detnews.com.
"They get in the car and drive it like they've always driven their cars, and that really tells me that fuel cells are closer than most people would believe."
The Equinox Fuel Cell is an an electric vehicle that uses a 700 bar high-pressure hydrogen fuel cell system. Not available for sale, the Equinox is being tested through GM's Project Driveway, "the first large-scale market test of fuel cell vehicles with real drivers in the real world." Real drivers who seem very excited about the new way of driving.
"You put your hand over the exhaust pipe and the only thing coming out is water. That was such a cool feeling," Mike Schwabl, Equinox 10-day test driver told the source. Of course, there is the other side of the coin...
"It was a rural road, we're talking cars that are mostly farmland type vehicles and people are driving by, and here's myself on the side of the road with the fuel cell car," Laurie DeRoller, executive director of the International Business Council of Greater Rochester, who was unfortunate enough to run out of fuel said. "And people are slowing down and looking." She got out of the jam on a flatbed....
GM's advice for those testing the Equinox? Keep an eye on the fuel gauge, at least until a proper fueling network is established.
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