There's no Bigger Failure then the CARB Hydrogen boondoggle.

Hydrogen Summary of Failure

Hydrogen stations make excellent explosive terrorist targets.
Hydrogen stations are very expensive, cost per station: $1.5 Million, who is going to be forced to pay for this?
Hydrogen stations not pumping at the 10,000 psi required, you’re only getting Half Charges!

Difficult to make hydrogen and store it.  
Hydrogen isn’t a source of energy, you can’t mine it, you can convert something else to hydrogen, like methane, but then you lose energy in the process.  
Hydrogen from water( in a global drought? ), is extremely inefficient.  
Hydrogen from methane gives you No Help with global warming, it actually makes things worse.  As methane wells typically leak like sieves
Hydrogen must be supercooled and compressed to 10,000 psi to store sufficient energy, which requires lots of energy.
Burning it as a fuel is less than 50% efficient.
The energy to do all this could be used to directly run an EV from a battery, and get you Twice as far.
Hydrogen likes to leak.
Hydrogen has a general problem of metal embrittlement, so you need special tanks.
- Hydrogen tanks only certified for 15 years???

Hydrogen leaks as an invisible gas.
Hydrogen is extremely flammable with an invisible flame.
Right now hydrogen is a loser vs. current batteries, not to speak of the battery chemistry in the coming solid state batteries.
Chevy Volt gets better MPG, at a Lower Price, and allows you to use cheap solar energy for your fuel, and hydrogen does not. We will not run out of gas during the EV conversion process.
Platinum in the fuel cell = expensive.

Hydrogen time refueling vs. solar.
Solar: You plug in at your home, Time 60 seconds.
Hydrogen: You drive 20 minutes, or to California, to the station 10 minute refuel, 20 minutes back home: 50 minutes lost.

Hydrogen Cars were built on the premise that we’d need a "Bridge Fuel" to EV’s, however battery tech has advanced so rapidly that there is no need for a bridge, especially one as wasteful and expensive as this.

http://gas2.org/2015/03/10/vancouver-ends-hydrogen-bus-program-amid-high-costs/

EV's running on Solar helps pay off your Solar investment 20%-40% faster = More PROFITS to YOU.

A single H2 fueling station can service 36 cars per day. (The highest volume ones service between 24-36 FCEVs.) Compare to ordinary gas stations, which service an average of ~1100 cars per day (some say 2500/day).

@Harvey, a hydrogen tanker truck can only deliver 400 kg of hydrogen per day. So that's about 80 cars per day. If we assume that most cars dont need a full tank, only 4kg, thats 100 cars per day.

To service the same number of cars a typical gas station does each day would require 15-20 tanker truck deliveries. Each day. 15-20 tanker trucks each day.

Clearly there are some very real limits on how many FCVs can be serviced each day from a single station.

@Mike, Toyota says a hydrogen station actually costs about $4 million.

@Roger what are you basing this speculation about hydrogen pipelines on? It's just more fantasy with no credible information to base the conjecture on. The hydrogen comes from where? Distributed to where? Oh yes, I remember. Distribution warehouses in the industrial section of town. That's your solution.

It's simply untrue that hydrogen can be pumped through existing NG pipelines. Totally false. And you know it.

DOE estimates that it will cost $500 billion to $1 trillion to build a Hydrogen fueling infrastructure in the US.

But you know better, right, Roger?

eci said:

' a hydrogen tanker truck can only deliver 400 kg of hydrogen per day.'

Are you actually ignorant of how the technology works, or are you spreading FUD, once more?

Sure, when LOW volumes are needed, then hydrogen tankers will be used.

At high volume you can:

Pipe in natural gas and reform it on site - you can't do that with petrol.

Use local biomass, landfill or such, also reformed on site.

Use solar or wind to provide electricity which is electrolysed to hydrogen on site, at an efficiency solar to hydrogen of 10%

The difference is, that the hydrogen can be stored to cover nights.

Find out something about the technologies you troll every site on.

What SJC said. PHEV's, once widespread, will use little fuel, whether gasoline or hydrogen. Most mileage for most people will be on battery. So the need for and distribution of filling stations will change dramatically in the next decade. Some, if not all, will dispense hydrogen.

SJC, there are definitely not 60 hydrogen stations in California. If there were, Toyota would not have pulled the Mirai off sale, or deployed mobile hydrogen tanker trailers prior to that stop sale order.

The number of retail H2 stations in California that can fully fuel Mirai is between 4-8, depending on which ones are operating on any given day.

H2 stations currently being built, or in the planning and permitting stages, as many on that list are, will be of very little use to someone who takes delivery of an FCV today. Many of those stations will not be open until two years or more.

I guess if you're going to include hydrogen stations that exist only as blueprints in your list of California H2 stations, you can claim as many as you'd like.

People who pay $57,500 for a car generally expect a bit more reality than that in order to get to work, the grocery store or a nice evening out.

Battery replacement is a red herring. BEV powertrains, including batteries, have long warranties. I notice you never post links to sources on that claim, SJC.

But nice of you to bring it up in an attempt to distract from the fact that you claimed there were 60 hydrogen stations in California, and included in that number at least 24 that have not yet even broken ground. Yep, that kind of disinformation will do wonders for your credibility.