I wonder since they are so in to renewables why do they embrace EVs? The rare earth materials needed to make the batteries have a finite quantity. At some point we will have used it all. I am all about hydrogen but there seems to be opposition to it but I don't understand why.
Re: Rare Earths - worse, China has almost all of it, in their ground. Second - they KNOW this and are looking for more in the one place in the solar system anyone is likely to find more - on the Moon.
Re: Hydrogen. You can't mine hydrogen - you have to make it with other means - so unlike renewables like wind and solar - which arrive more or less "free" at least in terms of capture - hydrogen you have to MAKE. Which consumes energy.
There IS at least one way of getting hydrogen that I do think will work - and that is as a consequence of load balancing on nuclear reactors. When you create power, you have to adjust for demand - but if you use all of the excess power to create hydrogen, you don't need to balance at all. You can run the reactor at full blast and divert all extra power to creating and storing hydrogen. Making nukes MORE efficient.