There is an ongoing argument that producing Hydrogen using "surplus" power would bring the effective costs down, but considering that we don't currently have a

There is an ongoing argument that producing Hydrogen using "surplus" power would bring the effective costs down, but considering that we don't currently have a massive surplus of energy, it seems rather wasteful to design the power grid for a massive overproduction just to produce fuel for cars that would run equally well on a quarter of the energy. I'm not saying that there isn't a place for PtX. Some industries will certainly benefit or even require an alternative to gasoline/diesel, but for private transportation it's never going to compete with EVs in terms of cost.