I am troubled by the definition of “smart” as applied to the people who have made up their minds that the future of automobiles belongs to electric vehicles. It shall not be, for as long as the stored power is in the form of batteries.
At best, a battery-powered electric vehicle is a niche product, good only for short hops, as running errands, and only while the weather is relatively warm. For long-range travel, there simply is not enough infrastructure to keep them charged on a longer trip, and the time factor figures in here as well.
Now, if the technology to produce and distribute hydrogen fuel cells can be instituted, then the electric vehicle has a MUCH greater chance of widespread adoption.
All they have to do is jack up the taxes on Gasoline and owning ICE vehicles, to make ICE car ownership prohibitively expensive.
Hydrogen? That’s a howler.
Even though it’s a great rocket fuel, handling and storing it is such a hassle that Elon Musk passed it over for methane.
The reasons for winding up with ICE vehicles running on gasoline and diesel have not changed, nor have physics and chemistry.
Switching to something else is a climb up a greasy pole.