Hydrogen fuel cells are viewed for large vehicles: ships, trains, trucks and even buses. Batteries for smaller vehicles like cars. Germany already has fare paying hydrogen trains in operation.
Batteries will be used for trains where there is a mixture of electrified and unelectrified track. Merseyrail metro at Liverpool have a new Swiss train fleet which can take batteries and run on 3rd rail or wires. They are to use them to extend the service onto unelectrified track in a number of peripheral locations.
Hydrogen is out as combustible fuels are precluded from the Liverpool & Birkenhead underground sections. There is a plan to extend the metro to Skelmerdale, making it feasible because the cost of electrification is omitted. Then trains can run from the centre of Liverpool's underground section to Skelmersdale. There is also in that area to be a hydrogen trial on the Liverpool to Chester line via Runcorn. Train maker Alstom are on the line, as is a local oil refinery for the hydrogen gas. Covid delayed it.
Batteries be a part of the solution, but EV cars are here to stay. Once the solid state batteries are here they will be firmly fixed. Home chargers and fast chargers everywhere then they are solid in the market.
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It is viewed that we will charge EVs like we charge smart phones, drip charging as we go. Go to the supermarket then plug in for free, getting maybe 10 miles of range. Go home, then plug in. Go to work then plug in, maybe for free getting lots of miles over 9 hours. Fast charging on major roads.
Even if some chargers are not that fast, they will give enough energy in the battery to get you around in normal circumstances.