He's right about fuel cells yet at the same time so wrong and hypocritical. Yes if you use solar>water electrolysis you lose a lot of the initial energy but it's still faster than creating a battery and doesn't have any negative impact on the environment like batteries. There is also energy needed to compress hydrogen or liquefy it. So what does hydrogen fuel cells have as the advantage? Convenience. There isn't a limit on the amount of energy that can be collected from the sun and compressing hydrogen takes almost no time and can be done anywhere.
On storing hydrogen it is true that hydrogen can escape many containers because of the size of the atom. However, there are special carbon (not expensive graphene) coated tanks that are used today that prevent leakage. Storage tanks for hydrogen are also bulletproof because of the nature of the materials they are made out of and unless your car ends up on the wrong end of armor piercing bullets you'll be totally fine in the worst car accident you can imagine.
Hydrogen dissipates very quickly, if you can't tell from the fact that they like to escape containers. In the event of a fire resulting from the armor piercing bullets that hit your car tank the hydrogen would sooner escape than burn because hydrogen only burns under controlled environments. Gasoline is far more flammable than hydrogen, they also leak and explode. Unless your car that you use for combat situations is made up of very flammable materials when the tank is opened by armor piercing bullets if there happens to be a small spark and your car just happened to be filled with lots of hydrogen and I mean only the driver seat isn't a part of the tank then while the gas escapes the rest of the flammable materials in the car will catch on fire.
It's a common straw man used by the EV cult to picture Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles (FCEV) as little Hindenburgs on wheels. Nothing new here. Have fun waiting 30 mins to charge your car at a station while FCEVs fill and go faster than gasoline vehicles.
EVs can be very practical in city driving...so are FVEVs
FCEVs can handle a moving truck across America, EVs...not so much.
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