Volvo has already bet pretty big on Battery-powered trucks. They've actually started full scale production already, beating Elon's fantasy truck to market: htt

Volvo has already bet pretty big on Battery-powered trucks. They've actually started full scale production already, beating Elon's fantasy truck to market: https://www.volvotrucks.us/trucks/vnr-electric/ https://www.volvotrucks.us/trucks/vnr-electric/ For some reason, otherwise intelligent people seem to think that hydrogen and batteries are diametrically opposed and that if you bet on one, you can't bet on the other. The reality is that they're both awesome and have a lot of potential, and they're both worth betting on. But batteries will never have the range that is required of long haul trucking. Their research into hydrogen is entirely consistent with this. BEVs for short haul, FCEVs for long haul. As to the rest of your post, I'm not big on pure hydrogen, but solid oxide fuel cells don't necessarily require hydrogen storage. At least not in the compressed sense. They can easily use any form of fuel you can throw at it. Synthetic fuels are the future of renewable energy for long range use cases. There is an efficiency hit to creating synthetic fuels, and an efficiency hit to converting them back to hydrogen, but efficiency doesn't actually matter...at least not directly. For example, we have had 60% efficient engines for a long time, but we still buy cars with 35-40% efficiency. What matters is dollars per work done. Synthetic fuel production can extremely cheaply be manufactured with off-peak surplus renewable energy. And as we invest more in renewable production, that surplus is only going to grow larger and get cheaper.