Chevy Beats Out BMW, Phoenix, Toyota, & Honda, to Win Green Car Award
Chevy and the rest of General Motors may be taking a beating with current offerings not doing much to maintain market share, but the future looks 
bright if the Chevy Equinox Fuel Cell is any indication of what’s to come from the General. Chevy beat out offerings from some of the industry heavyweights (and Phoenix Motorcars) to win the 2008 Green Car Vision Award.
The Equinox Fuel Cell is still just a concept but 100 lucky consumers on the coasts are part of a program to test the vehicle in real world conditions. The concept is said to get 200 miles per fueling and can achieve a top speed of 100 miles per hour.
Story from Yahoo Autos
January 28th, 2008 at 6:46 am
Green Car’s vision is clouded by GM glitz. Even if the cost of fuel cell generation and the issues with hydrogen energy density can be tamed, the cost of hydrogen energy storage infrastructure would be wastefully duplicative given that there is already sufficient generation and transmission capacity in the US electricity grid to power 84% of US transport if it’s recharged overnight.
Other than for fleet use, the Phoenix SUT @ $45K is too costly for wide application (it’s right for fleets because the maintenance footprint is vanishingly small - it takes so many fewer total vehicles to field the required number that it’s competitive). Unlike the Chevy Equinox, it’s real and practical.
They had to stretch the criteria so far to include the Chevy that it might qualify as torture - it’s sure in violation of the Geneva Accords. Ironically, even the Algal Biodiesel announcement appearing above the title in the announcement will result in fewer emissions, well to wheel, than the Equinox.
Given a chance to buff their image by association with the first practical, no compromise electric vehicle to go into production, Greencar chose a vision so far from being practical or competitive that there’s no chance for it to have any impact before the Greenland ice pack melts.