Right, the great thing about hydrogen is it is easy to transport and store, has energy density that's very comparable to current fuel cell technology. The crappy thing is that hydrogen needs to come from somewhere and right now the quickest and the cheapest source of hydrogen is the cracking of natural fossil fuels. And that it can be dangerous as it's highly inflammable, but not as much as it's made out to be. The biggest advantage though is that we won't have to fundamentally re-imagine and recreate our infrastructure, and we will be able to move to the new world by modifying the current structures instead of changing our behavior and attitude towards vehicles fundamentally. Also, it is super duper friendly to public transport and large commercial vehicles, very much more so than the alternatives. And, and, and, it is also amenable to being generated in smaller power plants such as solar farms, wind farms etcetera, so it could utilize the EV infrastructure without much hassle.
The biggest problem with hydrogen is that it offers a viable alternative to whatever the edgelord general felonking is selling, and he will go to great lengths to undermine and besmirch anything that gets in the way of him and his trillionaire status. The pumper will say and do whatever to undermine literally everybody else who has the same goals he pretends to have in his mad quest for absurdly large amounts of money. But tell that to his cult members, and they will all but hack you to death.
Alas.
Hope Toyota et al. put more effort into this.
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