If there has ever been a misleading headline, it has to be the one above, at least according to European carmakers. Hydrogen cars, they say, are not a viable alternative to battery electric vehicles. And that is despite billions of dollars that their own governments are pouring into hydrogen. “You won’t see any hydrogen usage in cars,” Volkswagen’s chief executive Herbert Diess told the Financial Times recently. “Not even in 10 years because the physics behind it are so unreasonable.” In this, Diess appears to share the opinion of the man he sees as a major competitor: Elon Musk, who said a few years ago hydrogen cars were “incredibly dumb”. Hydrogen as a fuel and as an energy storage vehicle has been gaining increasing popularity in the past couple of years, but somehow hydrogen cars have failed to take off in any way comparable to EVs. That’s because of […]