Hydrogen vs. Battery Electric Cars

Some thoughts for consideration.  15% of the population seems like an odd area to focus when determining access to fuel at home.  Also, note, you can plug your BEV into a standard 120v/15 Amp outlet to recharge most of the avg daily miles an average driver would use. So, not only can you charge in a rented house you share with roommates, you can charge while staying at an airbnb on vacation.

I can understand wanting to educate people on FCEV, but the presentation of the data seems biased.  From my research on the topic, two very notable things are not being mentioned as of yet (perhaps on an upcoming video).  The speed of technology development for BEVs is going up at a similar rate to its adoption.  So even questions of range increase being tied to weight of the vehicle is shifting as BEV tech is developing new batteries with much higher energy density.  While current FCEV tech does beat out BEV on this graph, if technology improvements continue on the current trend, BEV will be much closer to FCEV in the not so distant future.  

The other major item is how exactly H-fuel is created.  As of now, my understanding is the vast majority of hydrogen we need to fuel what few hydrogen vehicles we have now is generated using unsustainable methods requiring natural gas/electrolysis.  If my memory serves me correctly, it takes more energy from the grid just to create the fuel than the amount of energy it can provide to the vehicle, let alone if that energy were just directly placed into a BEV.  So increasing the number of FCEVs would currently cause a spike in pollutants in order to create the Hydrogen fuel needed.  Not to say that FCEV tech cannot get to a point where fuel development is sustainable, but as i understand, they are nowhere near that at this time.  

Personally, I would love to see FCEV become an option at some point, but if someone were to give me a billion dollars today and say, you can spend this on developing either FCEV, BEV or both; with where we are today, I would put nearly every penny into BEV.  That is currently the safest and fastest route to a more sustainable future.

I would love to see another special done on BEVs after doing a cross country drive in one of the more developed vehicles, speaking with some BEV experts, and speaking with some experts in energy development to understand current/future tech and how they can truly effect our grid and societal move for a less polluted more sustainable future.