I stand by my prediction that electric vehicles will never be more than a market niche. Unless there is some profound battery breakthrough, electric vehicles will prove to be the CFL light bulb to the LED. Hydrogen cars or something else, li-on battery cars? Never.
Your “battery breakthrough” has already happened, at least enough to reach “good enough for most people & most uses, at a decent TCO price.” The next breakthrough, essentially “double power at same volume & price”, will pretty much clinch the transition.
The problem with hydrogen is it’s a fuel. That locks you into THAT fuel. Batteries don’t care about fuel; you can charge an EV with coal, gasoline, diesel, LPG, propane, solar, wind, hydro, tides, hamster wheels, whatever.
The “charge time” argument is diminishing, approaching irrelevant. Most of the time an EV is fully charged in the morning (just plug it in at night), with range beyond what most drivers will need most days. When charging _is_ needed, there’s usually a “supercharger” en route providing what you need in the time you’ll want to get out & stretch anyway. Range anxiety is something people get over; gasoline range anxiety is about as much of a thing. Insofar as ICE still has an advantage, that’s shrinking steadily.
EVs _are_ the LEDs in your comparison. Hydrogen & Hybrids were the CFLs, still stuck to a technology you really don’t want after all.
Heretic