Hydrogen vs. Battery Electric Cars

For personal transportation BEVs make more sense in almost all applications. Most people can charge at home or at work, which means they only need to visit a DC fast charger during long trips. This, together with the efficiency, means that hydrogen vehicles just won't be able to out-compete them. For high demand applications, however, like airplanes and shipping and maybe even trucks, the advantage that the energy density of hydrogen gives you comes into play. In these applications it's probably unfeasible to carry a big enough battery to power the journey, but you could relatively easily store enough hydrogen. That's an application where hydrogen makes sense.