Hydrogen cars are already a thing, just not a very big one. The technology is there, but the infrastructure is hopeless. Car manufacturers don't want to push fuel cell cars because of this, but the companies who operate motorway services don't want to invest in hydrogen refuelling points because there are so few cars to use it, catch 22!. If fuel cell cars become a big thing, and frankly they should, then the prices will inevitably tumble as the technology becomes mass produced. There are currently only a handful of places in Britain to refuel a hydrogen fuel cell car, though bizarrely there are 2 in Aberdeen, which is only 30 miles away!.
But the current options are the Toyota Mirai, th Hyundai ix35 FCEV, and the Honda FCV Clarity. Possibly in the not too distant future there will be the (British) River Simple Rasa, a very small, very, very efficient, and very environmentally friendly 2 seater, not entirely dissimilar from Honda's original (and brilliant) Insight hybrid.
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