We're on our 4th EV, about to order our 5th. In those 12 years not one of the doomsayers predictions about battery life, range, finding somewhere to charge, cold weather, etc, have come true. The objections are almost all Daily Mail level bull.
They've been on the market for some time now and are well established, over a million EV registrations in the UK now, it seems highly unlikely any alternative is likely to take its place. They're here, with too much of a head start for anything except the most incredible unforseen technology to have any chance of supplanting them.
However, the tech doesn't scale well and loses effeciency/gains disproportionate mass with size, so I could see the potential for something else to power goods vehicles and lorries, but it won't be H - it's a great storage medium, but the energy input at source required for the energy output at point of use is disproportionately inefficient. The only people seriously considering it are car manufacturers late to the party who are instead hoping for a new wave they can ride.
E fuels? Forget it. Engineers have been trying for 80 years to manufacture synthetic road fuel at a scale effeciency that would allow it to be commercially viable as a replacement for gasoline. As yet no one has got within 1000% of the price at scale, so it seems unlikely anyone will suddenly do so now. Synthetic petrol at 14 quid a litre isn't going to be viable.
