It was absolutely a way to show they were working on green technologies that likely wouldn’t pan out. There was very little adoption in the mid-2000s and they persisted over a decade later trying to push the same fuel with no infrastructure in place. It was designed to flop.
I half felt that hydrogen was some sort of red herring to get green subsidies without encouraging competition.
Probably a bit tin foil hat of me.
It was absolutely a way to show they were working on green technologies that likely wouldn’t pan out. There was very little adoption in the mid-2000s and they persisted over a decade later trying to push the same fuel with no infrastructure in place. It was designed to flop.