Wal Mart is going full pin with Hydrogen cells in their DC's. What puzzles me is the BS about charging times. Right now, A battery in a reach or counter-balanced truck can be swapped in 2 minutes flat!. Try any Battery ease or using the battery bull and it's all done in minutes. Right now, they are spending 5 to 10 minutes "gassing up" a hydrogen battery.. WHOA! why are people claiming it takes so long to replace a lead acid battery when in fact it takes longer to charge a hydrogen cell. Then, these cells last only ONE freekin shift! Where is the time saving? I see these cells in use. Hydrogen cells are NO faster to fill and do not last any longer than lead acid batteries.. Go to the Crown website and watch their video. They state the charge lasts 8 hrs and takes "about 5 mins or so" to charge.
After all the fanfare, i expected fuel cells to last days on one charge.....what a let down. And please dont say Hydrogen is already there, just grab it and put it in the cell. THIS Hydrogen is fully Man made...it's formed by water electroysis and methane reforming. It takes energy to make this. It takes pipelines and transport trucks to deliver this on site to the huge "Hindenburg" Fuel storage tanks.
Maybe fuel cells will get more effecient. But right now thew "well to wheel" effeciency for hydrogen is only 30 -35%. Lead acid is 70%. They could improve lead batteries and make Hydrogen useless. Like it is now.