I drove 1800 miles in a Hydrogen Car

That spokesperson should go into politics cause she's really good at lying. The *only* reason toyota and other companies are pushing the hydrogen car is so that they can keep making profit long term out of selling the actual hydrogen fuel refills, which is harder to do with battery-operated vehicles since most people can just charge them at home. I don't think that either variant is perfect from an environmental point of view (making batteries and producing the hydrogen for those fuel cells are both resource-intensive) but if I had to pick one I'd go with the batteries-operated cars because they don't require a recurring contribution to big oil companies (who will become big hydrogen I'm betting).