Hydrogen Cars

It seems inevitable that at some point soon hydrogen cars will be the next big thing. But looking at the process to produce the hydrogen and the long term environmental damage; are they just a slightly different version of the same problem we have with fossil fuels and electric cars?

This is an interesting podcast, I listened to it a couple of weeks ago:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct4wcy?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Providing a country’s energy mix is heavily scaled towards renewables how would hydrogen be as bad as combustion or ev battery powered vehicles?

I think hydrogen is a clean burning fuel, the main issue with it is it making it that's hard and expensive.

They are gonna be blending hydrogen into natural gas as that's coming.

I’ve only done limited reading but the desalination bit seems worrying.

Hydrogen is the absolute worst idea for vehicles. The cost of manufacturing it and the effort to transport it makes literally no sense.

Ah but it fits into the model we already have for transporting mouldy dinosaurs.

BP, Shell and Aramco setup massive solar farms along the equator to power the hydrogen production systems in countries they already pillage.
Tanker it around the world, distribute....

I think JCB are big into developing hydrogen combustion engines and must be pretty robust for mine environments.
Not sure of the green credentials for equipment used to strip mine though...