That is a strange delusion on several levels. It looks lik downright psychological projection of issues with fossil fuels - and the fact limited lifetime also applies more so to fuels and hydrogen especially even.

Batteries currently have better effective energy density than hydrogen ironically given how heavy the tanks need to be to contain the metal embrittling escape artist that is hydrogen. Yet the traditional auto manufacturers bizzarely seem to have decided to make hydrogen their hill to die on.