Honda has unveiled the 2025 Honda CR-V e:FCEV, a new crossover that combines a plug-in electric powertrain and an advanced fuel-cell system co-developed with GM, offering an EPA-estimated 270 miles of range. The 2025 Honda CR-V e:FCEV is considered the only fuel cell electric passenger vehicle made in America, and indirectly rivals the Chevy Equinox EV. The new CR-V e:FCEV will be available for lease in California later this year.
The Honda CR-V e:FCEV powertrain incorporates a second-generation Honda Fuel Cell Module co-developed with GM and produced by Fuel Cell System Manufacturing in Michigan. The system costs roughly two-thirds that of the fuel cell system used by the Honda Clarity, with the cost reduction “achieved by various measures including the adoption of innovative materials for electrodes, advancement of a cell sealing structure, simplification of the supporting equipment and the improvement of productivity,” per Honda.
In addition to a total estimated range of 270 miles on hydrogen fuel, the system also offers up to 29 miles of purely all-electric driving. The system also delivers up to 1,500 watts of clean power via a 110-volt power outlet, enough to run things like small appliances, a portable air conditioning unit, power tools, and like. The battery has a capacity of 17.7 kWh.
Maximum system output is rated at 174 horsepower and 229 pound-feet of torque, which is delivered via a single front-mounted electric motor.
Inside, there’s space for up to five passengers, plus a 10.2-inch digital instrumentation screen, 9-inch HD touchscreen, wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, wireless phone charging, a 12-speaker Bose stereo, adjustable heated front seats, and four selectable drive modes. There’s also standard HondaLink that provides information like hydrogen station availability.
Outside, you’ll find a unique design and 18-inch, 10-spoke wheels.
The 2025 Honda CR-V e:FCEV will be produced at Honda’s Performance Manufacturing Center in Ohio.
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Excellent. This CRV will have only the motor powering the wheels with the power coming
1st from battery and after its depleted
2nd from fuel cell.
Instead of calling it e:FCEV, they could have named it FBV which stands for Fuelcell Battery Vehicle.
Electric is a term widely used in so many types of vehicles like
MHEV: Mild Hybrid
FHEV: Full Hybrid
PHEV: Plugin Hybrid
BEV
FCEV
Lets see how much its priced. But selling it in just 1 state means the sales volume will be very low.
IMHO…I think many folks would be in favor of categorizing all of them simply as “Fuel Cell Kilowatt’d – Universal Propulsion” vehicles.
…or maybe not. I could be way off-base.
An absurd solution to a problem that not many outside of Cali care about right now. Hydrogen is a lame solution and the price will be north of $75K. Back to the drawing board…
Like all other fuel cell vehicles, it is strictly a compliance car for California – good luck finding hydrogen with Shell closing ALL of their hydrogen fueling stations in California. Before this closure there were a total of 59 hydrogen fueling stations in the US.
Yeah all this hype and expense about silly hydrogen has taken the wind out of what would be very practical Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) fueling.
Took the equivalent of 58,000 btu / hour of gas from an existing natural gas connection, just a bit more than a water heater.
Phill even made home refuelers that may have taken 1500 rpm, 3000 psi in Italy. But couldn’t withstand 1800 rpm 3600 psi in north america. But it drew an average of 800 watts from a garage receptacle. When the Italian company took it over from the Canadian originator, only the 220 volt model was continued to be sold so a booster transformer would be needed for 110 volt north American installations.
But in the past fifteen years something more practical and cost effective could have been developed. The CNG Honda Civic was perfectly fine. As well as the CNG Chevy Trax and dual fueled Impala and Silverado.
That’s why all this Climate change zero emissions baloney is just that.. After all Natural Gas, methane, is CH4 or substantially Hydrogen anyway.
Burning it results in plain old water and stuff that makes plants grow better.
Seriously if CNG home refueling had been pursued, and/,or a gas engine driven compressor was designed (Honda already makes a natural gas generator powered warm air furnace where otherwise waste heat is used to heat the house while sending excess juice back to the grid), I’d buy that model which was ‘water cooled’ and use it to heat my hot tub year round.
Would eliminate that somewhat not trivial cost of running the compressor on expensive electricity and use cheap gas instead.
I’ve already years ago converted my hot tub from expensive electric heat to gas heat from a water boiler in the garage along with supply and return water lines to it. Piping in additional waste heat from a natural gas CNG compressor would in my case be trivially easy.
In that case I’d recover fully not only the waste heat from the engine. But also the heat of compression from the hot compressor.