Laura is one of the first customers for the new Honda hydrogen fuel cell car - the FCX Clarity. Only a few dozen will be produced this year and probably 200 within three years. Those to be taken up within California will be on lease only at a cost of $600 per month.

First customers, besides Laura Harris, include Jamie Lee Curtis and husband Christopher Guest, producer Ron Yerxa and businessmen Jim Salomon and Jon Spallino.

Following a test drive in Japan of the FCX Clarity Laura Harris said, "It's so smooth. It's like a future machine, but it's not."

Holding the car back will be the fact that there aren't sufficient hydrogen stations at the present time.