There was an interesting article on The Times website
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/confessions-of-an-electric-car-virgin-fq3lsz8tvabout driving a Nissan Leaf 1000 miles from London to Edinburgh and back. What was unusual was that it itemised the cost of recharging. Unfortunately the link seems to have lost this vital info, unless someone knows better.
But, he apparently spent £130 on electricity at charging points. This is a real sort of trip, not back home every evening. But £130 is serious, could do that in a petrol car for less, even my 3.9l Range Rover would only be twice that and carrying 400kg of load as well. Did 400 miles to Cardiff and back all in a 9 hour day, charging time? Twice in the garage for 10 minutes each time, petrol cost just under £100. So about 20mpg driving into a 50-60mph wind unladen, 400kg load back.
I don't commute, when an electric car would be fine, but make occasional long trips carrying a real load.
And does hydrogen work? I remember from years ago about storing hydrogen. The molecule is so small that it is near impossible to stop leaking, even with a metal to metal seal. Like hydraulics, over about 250 bar metal to metal won't seal, hence the O ring fittings, but an O ring won't seal hydrogen. Does anyone have any real knowledge of storing hydrogen they can share please?
For short journeys why not retrofit standard cars with lead acid batteries and one motor. Not trying to leave rubber on the road, just get to the local shops. Any number of cars to retrofit and lead isn't in short supply. And, lead can be recycled, unlike, according to my scrappy, lithium. Apparently putting a lithium battery in for recycling causes it to explode. I have seem 12 year old cars in the scrappy, why?, cam belt snapped so write off the whole thing. We can do a whole lot better than we are at the moment.