Honda Clarity - our newest treehugger Hybrid

 

If you are the rich treehugging type, read Hollywood celebrity, theres a new car, the Honda Clarity. For about $600/month lease, the zero emission car will be available in southern California, which surprisingly not is home to most Hollywood celebs. Honda is expected to make from a few dozen to 200 of the vehicles available. Jamie Lee Curtis, Laura Harris (Laura who?) and filmmakers Christopher Guest and Ron Yerxa are among the first customers.

Honda says the Clarity is times more efficient than a gas-electric hybrid and three times more efficient than a standard gas guzzler.  The biggest challenge is not the $600/month lease which includes maintenance and collision insurance, its where to fill the thing up. There are stations in Torrance, Santa Monica and Irvine, CA. These locations helped Honda decide among the 50,000 applications who would get the car.

Honda has plans to launch a gas-electric version of the Clarity as well as hybrid versions of the Civic, CR-Z and Fit compace. Honda, like another Japanese car maker, Toyota, is decidedly a leader in ‘green cars.