Hydrogen Cars Are Dead

This article misses the long-term perspective.

Which is: there will likely be some hydrogen infrastructure for fuelling long-haul trucks, which will likely not be BEVs but rather FCEVs.

As soon as this infrastructure is there, there will be all sorts of secondary effects of this, reducing operating costs for FCEV cars.

Also there are already (with BEV cars only making up a small percentage of all cars) issues with grid stability popping up in many countries and they're going to get much more serious than now.

Yes, BEVs can help dampen short-term (up to maybe 48 hours) intermittency but beyond that, they won't help much.

And as soon as the price fluctuations of flexible electricity contracts to incentivize charging of BEVs off peak get painfully high so they effectively make the flexibility of driving exactly when you need/want (which is the whole point of owning a car) expensive .. people will probably become more interested in FCEVs which don't have this effect.

> Hydrogen is also the most abundant element on Earth, so it looked like the perfect solution for decarbonization.

Wow, what an absurd take. As if people who are doing technical research to find out, in which way hydrogen might be a viable energy carrier, would ever consider this a criterion.

One shouldn't take one isolated statement and judge the credibility of the rest of the text and of the author based on that, yes.

But this statement alone makes me instantly doubt the rest of the reasoning will be sound.

Although hydrogen is claimed to be a zero carbon fuel, a lot (most?) is created with natural gas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_reforming