Home, Home on the Range

So how far can you go on a single tank of hydrogen in the F-Cell.  It seems to depend up on who you ask.  Mercedes is stating 249 miles.  I bet you could, if you were going all downhill, with an 18-wheeler in front of you drafting the air while you drove no more than 50 mph with a raw egg sandwiched in between your shoe and the accelerator pedal. 

For the rest of us in reality land, where we accelerate and brake, where idiots in slow moving Priuses cut us off and douchebags in M3's tailgate us in commuter traffic, you can expect an honest to goodness 184 miles maximum.  OK, i had 0.2kg's of hydrogen left in my tank, so maybe i could have squeezed another three miles at highway speeds. But that's pretty darn close to empty.  The fuel light was illuminated, i had a low fuel warning symbol and towards the end, i even got some illustration of a F-Cell connected to a fuel pump visually telling me to fill up, as if the other lights and dings and indicators weren't enough. 

Safely, i'd say you get 150 honest to goodness miles out of the car.  You'd still be more than 1/4 of a tank and without any lights on the dash.  The average gasoline car gets around 250-300 miles.  So while it isn't what you'd call long distance, it's certainly further than most other electric cars on the market.  And let's not forget that you can 'fully recharge' full of hydrogen in about 10 minutes.