Hyundai Motor America is driving a Hyundai Tucson fuel cell vehicle across the country in September to bring awareness to childhood cancer. Follow the route and the blog of their cross-country trip. During September National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, Hyundai Hope on Wheels will award a total of $7.1 million to children’s hospitals nationwide. During its national tour, the Hyundai Tucson FCEV team, Zafar Brooks and Joe Foster will stop at hospitals across the country, collecting colorful handprints from childhood cancer patients and survivors along the way. By the end of September, the vehicle will have collected hundreds of handprints from children around the country, each representing a personal story about a child’s battle with this deadly disease

Hyundai Hope on Wheels® is the united effort of Hyundai Motor America and its more than 800 dealers across the U.S. to raise awareness about childhood cancer and to celebrate the lives of children battling the disease. In 2011, Hope on Wheels will have committed more than $43 million in donations to pediatric cancer research since the program began in 1998.

As the official car of Hope on Wheels, Hyundai’s major pediatric cancer program, a Hyundai FCEV Tucson will travel more than 4,500 miles coast to coast for kids with cancer. At the kick-off in San Francisco, Hyundai said, “This will show that fuel cell vehicles are not a dream, but a reality.”

Follow the tour blog and route at http://hyundaidrive4hope.com/. Follow the drivers on Twitter @HopeOnWheels.

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