Hydrogen Powered ICE the future?

[Grumpy Goat]

Anyone who is holding out hope that hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine technology will be the savior of the ICE motorcycle (as was I) watch this and be dismayed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJjKwSF9gT8

Thanks, but I long suspected that the internal combustion engine is not sustainable and, when you think of what is needed to put a fuel-cell/electric motor in a motorcycle (or car) to get equivalent results, I am not at all surprised at the result. This video reinforces that. I will confess I made it about 40% of the video before I lost interest and decided to go look up the Mirai. 

Yes, in the hydrogen-powered Yamaha V8 you'd have to drag around a huge volume of hydrogen to get the equivalent range of the gasoline-powered V8 in the Lexus RCF, but ... the emissions benefit not to mention the reduction in dependence on fossil fuels and oil from the ME means that hydrogen-powered vehicles will be worth it. He is looking at apples and oranges when it comes to the parameters going into this design problem. Looking at the Mirai - yes, it is slower and the range is shorter but the emissions is water. Problem with it is cost.

I found this article by Car & Driver interesting, and as I suspected battery-powered electric cars are presently more viable than hydrogen-powered ones, and both are alternatives to the non-sustainable fossil-fueled vehicles we presently enjoy. Again, the problem is cost and charging infrastructure.