I drove 1800 miles in a Hydrogen Car

How can you have studied physics at MIT without ever hearing about hydrogen cars?
I heard bout hydrogen cars several times in high school and they have been all over the media in the past 5 years where everyone says that battery electric vehicles are now getting so good that hydrogen fuel cell cars make no sense anymore.
The daughter of my neighbour was working on hydrogen fuel cells for BMW more than 10 years ago and they abandoned the project.