Hydrogen has significant geopolitical advantages for Japan, but it was also very unclear which path was better back then. Even in California we had political da

Hydrogen has significant geopolitical advantages for Japan, but it was also very unclear which path was better back then. Even in California we had political darlings like Bloom Energy and fleets of fuel cell buses crawling around city streets. It was only around 2016 or so that battery technology and renewables started to clearly win out and it was too late then to change course.