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Last I heard they were claiming BEVs were an interim technology and everyone was going to move from them to hydrogen.
Which that premise always made me laugh. The distribution system for hydrogen would be insane to install. Electric is nearly ubiquitous and you can add in chargers much easier than hydrogen infrastructure. Not to mention you still have the energy conversion loss factor from making, storing and transporting hydrogen vs riding the existing electric infrastructure.
Yeah that whole thing has been idiotic from the start. I remember Popular Mechanics pushing articles about the new “hydrogen infrastructure” and “our hydrogen future” and all that shit.
That and hydrogen has been 5 years away from ready since the mid 90s.
Hydrogen only makes sense to Japan. They have no natural resources for lithium batteries. But plentiful of cheap electricity to convert water to hydrogen. So for japan to be energy independent, hydrogen does make a lot of sense.