A really cool site called engadget has a post about Mercedes-Benz’ attempt to stop producing petroleum fuelled cars by the year 2015. This would be really fantastic. I would buy an all-electric Smart car for tooling around town and commuting to work.
Can it be? Can a car really run on water? I cannot tell you how this might be possible, but here is some video allegedly of a car invented by Genepax in Osaka, Japan, showing its eco-friendly car that runs on nothing but water.
The company hopes to go into mass production with a Japanese manufacturer.
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid203719194/bclid86272812/bctid1600171070
I would like to believe this, but the chemistry of water is well known. Unless you put energy in the form of electricity into it to separate the hydrogen from the oxygen and then use a fuel cell to recombine them to produce electricity, there is nothing that I am aware of in pure water from which to extract energy.
The TRIAC electric car is finally supposed to be here in July. It has a 100 mile range and can go 80MPH. And it is cute.