燃料电池-议员马萨（massa）的燃料电池车之旅

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Congressman Eric Massa of NY tried to drive a fuel cell car from NY to DC to make an environmental point and to show how great fuel cell cars are. He failed at both.
出于环境角度及展示燃料电池车的初衷，国会议员massa驾燃料电池车完成了他的纽约NY-华盛顿DC之旅。但两目的均以尴尬告终。
Representative Massa made the 300 mile NY to DC trip in a car that has a maximum range of 200 miles. How? By enlisting the help of two SUVs to tow two fuel cell cars while not in use.
在两辆SUV车的支持下，议员马萨（massa）驾驶最大续航里程200公里的燃料电池车完成了300公里的旅程。

Massa drove one fuel cell car while a hybrid SUV [Chevy Tahoe] towing an additional SUV followed along. Once he got half way, he switched to new fuel cell car [which I assume was towed to the half way point sometime earlier so that it would be waiting for the environmentally-conscious congressman]. The empty fuel cell was then towed back by the first SUV. As he continued on his journey, the second SUV followed. Once Massa arrived in DC, the second SUV then towed the second fuel cell car back to NY.
在一辆混合动力SUV拖着另一辆SUV随行陪伴下马萨（massa）驾驶燃料电池车出发，在抵达半程时由这辆混合动力SUV将此辆燃料电池车拖回出发地，然后驾驶另一辆已经在此等候的同类型燃料电池车继续下半个旅程，而由先前被拖来的那辆SUV负责继续随行。最后抵达终点，再由此辆SUV将此燃料电池车拖回出发地。（NY）

So basically, one SUV traveled 400 miles and one SUV traveled 600 miles for a total of 1000 miles on a 300 mile trip. That's not even counting the mileage on the fuel cell car. Nice work there Captain Planet.
但是两辆SUV分别行驶了400公里和600公里而且还未将燃料电池车的行程计算在内。
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Congressman’s Inefficient Fuel Cell Journey Was Intentional?

                               
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There’s a lot of controversy and displeasure online right now regarding freshman Congressman Eric Massa’s fuel cell journey from NY to Washington, DC. The trip is roughly 300 miles — but the General Motors Equinox fuel cell SUV he took could only achieve a maximum range of 200 miles. What did he do? Famous DC lays out the details:

Massa drove one fuel cell car while a hybrid SUV [Chevy Tahoe] towing an additional SUV followed along. Once he got half way, he switched to new fuel cell car [which I assume was towed to the half way point sometime earlier so that it would be waiting for the environmentally-conscious congressman]. The empty fuel cell was then towed back by the first SUV. As he continued on his journey, the second SUV followed. Once Massa arrived in DC, the second SUV then towed the second fuel cell car back to NY.

Of course, if Massa was simply trying to promote the cars this way — then it was an epic fail. However, his entourage of inefficiency was apparently intentional. “This absolutely was intended to raise awareness,” he told the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. “One of the things we wanted to point out is, we believe a lot of the infrastructure money that’s going to be spent needs to be spent to build infrastructure for systems like hydrogen fuel cars, so you can stop and fill your tank on the way to D.C.,” Smith said. “This was totally designed to raise awareness of the issue. The big point was to draw attention to this technology of the future and say we need to build the infrastructure to support it.”
I guess that’s one way to prove your point — but it looks like some media outlets didn’t get that memo. Perhaps some better promotion next time?