RIDE DRIVE: Chevy’s Equinox Fuel Cell Vehicle
Posted by Matt Kelly | Filed under Uncategorized
During GM’s Electric Drive University in Newport Beach, Calif., I had the opportunity to get behind the wheel of the new Chevy Equinox fuel cell prototype vehicle for a ride and drive with Brad Beauchamp. He’s a driver relationship manager for GM’s Project Driveway, and is a veritable wealth of information of the crossover hydrogen-fueled, electricity-powered SUV. A skeptic of hydrogen for vehicle power, I was amazed at how quiet the vehicle was and thoroughly enjoyed my time in the auto, and am warming to the idea of this as an alternative fuel for the future.
Tags: Brad Beauchamp, Chevy Equinox, Electric Drive University, FCV, fuel cell, Project Driveway
December 3rd, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Glad to see the test market Equinox is getting around. I guess GM is still able to do some other good things while standing before Congress with a tin cup. I, too, was pleasantly surprised at its performance…not just the quiet ride, but even as a passenger in my boss’s test car I noted its more than adequate pickup, albeit in downtown DC traffic. I really wish we would get behind these vehicles and their fuel support infrastructure. There’s only one hydrogen fill-up in DC, and all of 3 in the greater LA area, for a vehicle that gets only about 150-160 miles to a fill-up.