Eli5 Why Hydrogen powered Cars just vanished

Question

I saw years ago some car companies realeasing hydrogen powered Cars. Now its just electrical Cars. What is wrong with Hydrogen Cars?

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Answer 1

Tuns out hydrogen is a quite inefficient and expensive way of storing electricity, hydrogen is much lighter and faster to refuel compared to batteries, however you lose over 50% the energy you use to make the hydrogen, and you also need to build expensive hydrogen infrastructure, where electricity is already pretty much everywhere