A charging network just requires some wire and electronics, everything is well understood and easy to do for experts in that field.
Hydrogen on the other hand, is difficult to keep contained and cold enough to remain in liquid form. Even NASA who has worked with it for 50 years with massive budget and engineering expertise constantly has problems with it. For instance one of BMWs hydrogen cars you are not allowed to park in a garage! As hydrogen is expected to leak from it. And current hydrogen gas stations still suffer from this challenge.
So hydrogen fuel cells do offer the advantage of better energy density for more range, but you have the dual difficulties of 1. how do I make the hydrogen efficiently AND cleanly and then 2. the infrastructure build out is actually as hard ad EV doubter think wires are.
> Hydrogen on the other hand, is difficult to keep contained and cold enough to remain in liquid form... For instance one of BMWs hydrogen cars you are not allowed to park in a garage!
That particular BMW effectively one-of-a-kind in that it is 1) internal combustion rather than fuel cell, and 2) stores its fuel as a liquid rather than a compressed gas. The liquid storage is a consequence of being ICE because it is required to get even remotely reasonable range out of something as inefficient as ICE combustion of hydrogen.
fuel cell vehicles like the Mirai still have a number of problems, but they have actually done a very good job with fuel storage and range using compressed hydrogen and don't have any of the limitations of the BMW such as leaking hydrogen or losing massive internal volume to the fuel storage.
Hydrogen on the other hand, is difficult to keep contained and cold enough to remain in liquid form. Even NASA who has worked with it for 50 years with massive budget and engineering expertise constantly has problems with it. For instance one of BMWs hydrogen cars you are not allowed to park in a garage! As hydrogen is expected to leak from it. And current hydrogen gas stations still suffer from this challenge.
So hydrogen fuel cells do offer the advantage of better energy density for more range, but you have the dual difficulties of 1. how do I make the hydrogen efficiently AND cleanly and then 2. the infrastructure build out is actually as hard ad EV doubter think wires are.