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You and I are in agreement on government shouldn't force transition to EV's. But if we're going to do that argument, we should at least get our facts straight.

Then there's the little fender bender that can easily be fixed on ICE vehicles but total EV's.. That's with Tesla's and their design, which Musk has admitted has a flaw, in making the battery sit within the frame.

One thing I like about hydrogen cars is they simplify the hybrid design over the normal gas hybrid. This is because hydrogen cars are, in effect, EV's but with a different power source (hydrogen fuel cell). In the end a hydrogen car is a hybrid because most of the hydrogen cars have a battery that's larger than a normal car that the car depends on for propulsion like a BEV (battery EV, what we usually think of when we say "EV"). The difference being that the hydrogen fuel cell acts like a generator to keep the battery charged. Contrast that with a gas hybrid which, IMHO, has a complex design of both a gas engine and an electric motor and their supporting components.

If they build a hydrogen hybrid car that's a plugin-hybrid in which the battery portion alone can get 300 miles before you need the hydrogen to go further, then us home solar users would be very interested. I could see charging the battery on days I have good solar, and if the battery is fully charged then use excess solar to run an electrolyzer to generate hydrogen for the next long trip.