Battery tech has already won for general automotive applications, even though the number of cars sold is still small. The problem is that while Toyota is a big

Battery tech has already won for general automotive applications, even though the number of cars sold is still small. The problem is that while Toyota is a big company, they’re not big enough to deploy the massive hydrogen distribution and fueling infrastructure that would be required in order to make their cars commercially viable around the world. To make this work, they’d need basically every other major auto manufacturer to commit to hydrogen fuel cells as their future non-ICE alternative. Unfortunately for Toyota, virtually every other auto manufacture has already bet heavily on BEV, and against hydrogen. Even if the bet ultimately proves to be a bad one on technical grounds (and I don’t think it is), it seems very unlikely that any set of circumstances can undo it at this point.