[panick21]

> Hydrogen needed a Tesla-like company to strip away everything that made a car a car, and rip away all the legacy at once.

That would not have worked. Because a startup could never finance a hydrogen infrastructure like Tesla did for charging. Its simply 10-100x more expensive to do and not practical or green.

Even Toyota and co haven't managed hydrogen infrastructure even in Japan where they had a policy and have been going at it for decade.

Beyond that building the cars is insanely complex, expensive and hard to automate. Fuel-cell mass production is and was even less mature that then battery mass production.

The reason there is not Tesla for Hydrogen because a Tesla for Hydrogen was not actually a practical thing.

Musk himself laughed at a reporter who asked him in 2013 and called them 'fool cells', point out that discussions was not worth it, and the next 5-10 years would clearly show it.