Quoting wiki "The first modern fuel cell vehicle was a modified Allis-Chalmers farm tractor, fitted with a 15 kilowatt fuel cell, around 1959." So after 55 years of steadily improving concepts we are still only seeing concepts now with 100kw fuel cells and the ability to start in cold weather. Good luck going forward they need it. I for one do not believe in it. Apart from fueling in 5 minutes a real world BEV Tesla P85D with 515kW of power can do everything a state of the art concept fuel cell can do and then also have more trunk space and the ability to refuel at home or anywhere with a plug. The cars cost about the same to produce.

However, the world need efficient low cost electrolyses for hydrogen production when wind and solar are delivering more power than otherwise needed on the grid. That hydrogen could be stored inexpensively in depleted oil and gas fields and be burned in conventional low cost combined cycle power plants to make electricity and heat when solar and wind is not producing enough electricity to satisfy demand. That is the only realistic and low cost solution for all intermittency problems in a country that base all of its energy production on renewables like solar and wind power.

My point is that the world does not need fuel cells vehicles but we need inexpensive and efficient hydrogen electrolyses in order to go fossil free and end global pollution once and for all. And the engineers that currently spend their time developing unnecessary concept automotive fuel cell are exactly the engineers we need to develop those electrolyses because fuel cells and electrolyses have a lot in common and can indeed be identical.

Here in quebec the electric utility is a complete crap. We have plenty of surplus green electricity and they do not do anything with it. They can easily turn these surplus into hydrogen and feed hydrogen cars, this will displace a lot of costly polluting petrol and reduce cost of driving. We can become leaders in hydrogen but nobody except me talk about it. Why on earth I have to pay more for gasoline when there is hydrogen untapped . This hydrogen can power my dodge neon with a simple conversion.

They can also produce synthetic gasoline with surplus green electricity but now they decided of doing nothing and are planning to increase the price of electricity 7% in april 2015.

@Mike:
You can be sure that that is the case, as you have so much more experience of building cars then Toyota, Honda and Hyundai, and have looked into it more deeply.

'"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell

I have to applaud Honda for having designed such an exquisitely beautiful car design and so futuristic looking...looks it just came out of Star Wars...no matter what's propelling it within.

The plug-out feature is definitely a plus, and a must-have for small-business owners facing unreliable grid electricity supply...where I live, the power goes out almost every time there is a storm!

I'm so glad, Henrik, that you see the utility in Hydrogen seasonal energy storage and renewable energy. Short-term daily energy storage is still best by using battery, due to the higher round-trip efficiency. For seasonal energy storage, the waste heat utilization of H2 consumption can make it as efficient as battery-electric energy storage. However, in order to benefit from the waste heat, home-based or neighborhood-based power producer is needed, perhaps from FC or small Hydrogen Combustion Engine with waste recuperation.

Now imagine this: Cover the entire roof of every house and parking lot with solar PV panels. No doubt, a lot of excess daytime power will result. Store some of this excess power in battery for night use, and the rest by producing H2 via local electrolyzers and sending the waste heat of electrolysis for heating hot water. The H2 will be supplied to local H2 piping system to flow into underground reservoir, and the H2-consumption meter will run in reverse in the summer to give homeowner credits.
With waste heat utilized at electrolysis and at H2 consumption, the round-trip efficiency of H2 as seasonal energy-storage medium will beat any other energy storage media, and will have the biggest potential capacity at the least cost per kWh of capacity.

Good point, Lad.
Sadly, however, the current market for personal planes is very very small, and as such, these small planes are still using WWII-engine technology and leaded gasoline, due to lack of investment in developing new power plants.

Hopefully, with maturing FCEV automotive technologies, these can be adapted to small planes with minimum development costs. So, the hope for future FC-electric flight will depend on a flourishing FCEV automotive market.

Adapting automotive FC-e-motor to aircraft use is far simpler than adapting automotive engines for aviation use. E-motors are far more reliable than combustion engine and have higher power-to-weight ratio, much more compact and much lower frontal area, hence will be far more aerodynamic. I would envision a twin-motor setup, each motor mounted in each wing in order to blow air right in front of the flaps for the purpose of very short-takeoff and landing (STOL). With this STOL capability and with the reliability of e-motors, AND QUIET OPERATION, regular runways may not be needed, just a small grassy field would be sufficient, and this would open more doors to general aviation. Imagine an aviation community having a small grassy strip in the back of the house for STOL by electric aircraft having foldable wings for storage right by the house.

The future much lower cost of H2 in comparison to current AVgas' cost, and lower cost of FC-emotor vs aviation engines today, and far higher reliability, with absence of noise and pollution... perhaps will bring revival to a now-near-dead general aviation activity.

No Problem DaveMart,

And I do think, we the general public Are Smarter then Toyota's CEO.
I've seen how "Capitalism" works, just by watching Exxon.

If the CEO has an incentive, from the oil industry, or the fracking/methane industry to create a hydrogen car, that's what the CEO will do. What your seeing is:
1) A CEO with a financial incentive from the Japanese hydrocarbon - fracking industry.
2) A CEO getting Extorted by the Japanese fracking industry.

Look at Exxon compared to GE.
Exxon has no PLAN B to move into Solar and Wind, and in a price war with Saudi Arabia, they're losing refinery marketshare. So they have a PE of 12.
GE, diversified in Wind and Solar and Nuclear has a PE of 20.33 today.
Who's managed better?
GE of course.
So, why is Tillerson mismanaging Exxon?
Exxon could spend 20 Billion a year on a Solar and Wind Rollout, and save Exxon employee JOBS. And yet he runs the company like a Right Wing Troll.
Because he controls the Board, he has No Incentive to Manage the Company for the Future, so we're watching the slow Suicide of Exxon.

Incentives make CEO's manage their companies for Their Benefit instead of the Nations benefit.

correction:
Add to last paragraph: "It'll be difficult to dislodge Big Oil".....

I could see Toyota, Honda and Hyundai leasing FCVs then providing free hydrogen for the 3 year lease. You might get some customers in selected areas.