• Honda will assemble a hydrogen-powered CR-V at its facility in Marysville, Ohio.

• The company was the first company to offer a hydrogen vehicle to the general public in 2008 with the FCX Clarity.

• Without a power grid in Canada, don’t expect too much to see this vehicle on our roads.

Honda announced this week that it would launch a CR-V powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. The model will be released in 2024 and will be assembled at Honda’s Marysville, Ohio factory where the NSX was produced. Production of the latter ended earlier in November.

We are not communicating this news to you so that you can reserve your copy as soon as possible. In Canada, the network for refueling hydrogen vehicles does not exist except for a few stations.

In vehicles using this technology, hydrogen is combined with oxygen in a fuel cell in a reverse electrolysis process. The only by-products are electricity used to power an electric propulsion system and water released into the atmosphere.

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In the CR-V powered by a fuel cell, Honda will also install a battery that can charge the fuel cell. A power outlet will also be provided for owners to plug in their vehicle at home, making up for the lack of hydrogen fueling stations.

In that sense, the vehicle looks like a traditional plug-in hybrid, but with a fuel cell instead of a gas engine.

Honda isn’t new with this technology, having previously offered the Clarity fuel cell, which was introduced for 2017 and discontinued last year. We will also remember FCX Clarity, whose career was limited to the years 2008 to 2014. In North America, this vehicle was only sold in Southern California, where a hydrogen supply network exists. Fewer than 50 units were rented to customers at the time.

Honda is one of the companies that believes in this technology and sees it as part of the solution. In its strategy, the company wants to sell only “zero emission” vehicles by 2040.