Hydrogen vs. Battery Electric Cars

“If you made 25% of cars on the road battery electric and plugged them all in to charge at once, you would crash the grid.”

So how is hydrogen the answer when it requires 2-4x more electricity to produce than it takes to charge a battery?

“If the power went out, you could still go fill your hydrogen car and keep on driving.”

I’m not sure A.) how the hydrogen is being cooled, compressed, and pumped into HFC cars if not by using elctricity, and B.) how that hydrogen can be produced without electricity. If the grid is down, BEV is the most reliable transportation there is, because it can be fully charged by solar panels that are installed on-site. The same is not so true of hydrogen because of its inefficiencies. Yes you COULD still produce hydrogen with on-site solar using elctrolysis, but those same solar panels would charge 3-4x more BEV miles as it would HFCEV miles.

BTW, I do appreciate you making this series of videos - these are valuable conversations for the public to be exposed to and start thinking about. And it is great that there are companies like Toyota who are so heavily invested in researching alternatives to BEV, because just like NASA and the space program - just because 99.999% of us will never leave the atmosphere, 100% of us benefit from the science and advancements and knowledge obtained by doing such fundamental research. Those are always good things.