EV batteries either get
EV batteries either get repurposed or recycled at the end of their life. Every car no matter gas or electric has environmental impacts with the manufacturing process. It's not economically viable to use renewable energy to create large amounts of H2. The cost is way too high it's way cheaper to get it from methane. Doesn't matter if one or two states do it for ~30% because that's no where near enough if FCEVs became mainstream. In other words it's not scalable on an economical level. Besides what about the rest of the States? Is the whole country going to get H2 from renewable sources? Then there's the H2 infrastructure problem and the tremendous cost involved with all that! I think H2 is good for industrial application but not passenger cars. It would be cheaper, easier and faster to use that money to continue building out a DC fast charge network. Fast charging is already about to get a lot better with 150kw chargers coming out. Battery electric tech is already vastly superior in terms of efficiency over HFCEVs, the IONIQ gets 124mpge vs only ~68mpge for FCEVs. Why waste money and resources on an inferior technology?!?