I drove 1800 miles in a Hydrogen Car

There are three big issues to overcome with hydrogen fuel cells: 

1.  Production efficiency.

Hydrogen production is extremely energy intensive. At this point, natural gas is the main input fuel for the hydrogen separation process and it takes an exorbitant amount of natural gas for the process.

2.  End use efficiency 

Current fuel cell tech doesn’t scale down to POV size well. Cell output to fuel input is hovering around 52% for car size systems today.

3. Precious metals sourcing

Platinum is required in the cell system. This rare element has to be mined from regions which don’t have good humanitarian track records and the mining process is ridiculously challenging for rather minuscule returns.

I sincerely hope that Toyota can overcome these issues. Hydrogen could really be a viable fuel for the future of automobiles. 😁