It is not. The only place in the usa that you can drive a hydrogen car in practice, is california,,and even then refueling stations are in pockets.
Infrastructure isnt there and capacity to extract hydrogen isn’t there either. Don’t know how fast it can be put in, but I’d say 2 decades. Without some kind of other nationwide or worldwide disaster/castastrophe factoring in.
I understand that we don’t have the infrastructure. That’s not what I meant when I said a ready-made replacement. I was talking about whether its performance and economics can match that of gasoline.
Can I get tank of hydrogen for $5/gallon and can I tow a 2,000lb trailer on my Ford F3500 that is full of tools and get nearly the same performance as my truck absent a trailer like I can with hydrocarbons. That’s what I meant.
If hydrogen is indeed ready to roll out, it can probably be rolled out quickly enough to replace the infrastructure that we have in place for gas and diesel.
I am still waiting on the future to get here. /s
Toyota has the only commercially produced hydrogen fuel cell vehicle available in the US, I think. They only sell in California and recently released the second generation that looks more normal.
The radical anti-progress Left also threw up endless roadblocks on nuclear power which is the cleanest and most efficient electric production we have. And they cry about carbon emitters. As a result it’s been so long, we had a brain drain in the industry as those who had industrial skill, experience and capacity outside military applications aged out. Here in Georgia is the only new nuclear power project in the past twenty or thirty years. It had to be bailed out too. Thankfully Georgia Power didn’t give up.