So do you guys think it's basically settled now that electric cars are the future? Or do you think another alternative fuel will have its day?

It seems that electric has won over alternative methods (hydrogen fuel cells, biofuels, stuff like that). Basically all the automakers now are making electrics, or at least hybrids.

Hydrogen fuel cells have been abandoned by some automakers (Daimler and Renault-Nissan announced in the last couple years that they were basically dropping their efforts on hydrogen and switching to hybrids/electrics instead). Hydrogen COULD be useful for trucks / haulage companies, where time is money. They might prefer the quick refuelling time of hydrogen, even if the vehicle up-front is more expensive (because they'll make the money back over time). But for cars, electrics and hybrids seem to have won the day.

Especially when you consider many full-electrics can go 300-400 miles or more on a single charge, it makes sense. Also, full-electrics are far more efficient than hydrogen fuel cell cars, since so much energy is lost in the production of hydrogen, and energy is required to compress the hydrogen, and some efficiency is lost in the fuel cell itself. Also full-electrics can be powered by completely zero-carbon electricity, e.g. from nuclear power, or hydro, or solar, or wind (yes hydrogen could be made with this same zero-carbon electricity, but like I said, the hydrogen production/transportation/compression requires tons of energy itself, making it extremely inefficient).

What do you reckon, /sci/? Are EVs the future? It looks like it to me.