"Did anyone other than toyota execs really believe hydrogen everstood a chance?" I think BMW did. They had a good prototype in the early 2000s and really went

"Did anyone other than toyota execs really believe hydrogen everstood a chance?" I think BMW did. They had a good prototype in the early 2000s and really went to town with it. They marketed it heavily as a finished and usable product and I guess the thinking was that no one would notice the difference because the infrastructure wasn't there. Now, the story goes that a sheik tried to test them and actually ordered a whole fleet, which BMW could not deliver. This dealt a heavy blow to BMW's hydrogen ambitions and the program only continued at a much much smaller scale. Of course this is all anecdotal, and I do not know how much is really true, but it is the story I heard on multiple accounts when working close to these projects.