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[Nerys]

Running a car on water is not a miracle and is ABSOLUTELY possible and plausible. If I had the money I could do it tommorrow. The problem is this. ITS NOT EFFICIENT :-)

Think about this to run a car on water you need the following.

A battery to electrolyse water into hydrogen and oxygen at a sufficient rate to then BURN that hydrogen to power the car.

Sounds good right? here is the problem.

The battery. By the time you have enough BATTERY power to go say 200 miles on hydrogen you ALREADY HAVE enough battery power to run an EV for 400 miles :-) (those numbers are out my butt they are just to make a point)

IE a PURE hydrogen car is an ELECTRIC CAR. Because this process is so inefficient you already have an EV without the benefits of an EV :-)

IE a hydrogen car CAN NOT work (burning hydrogen) for the same reason an EV can not work (yet) we DO NOT HAVE the batteries to make it work!

And even if we did (chevron and there damned patent) it would be many times more efficient to SKIP the water part and just put an electric motor in the thing :-)

SO YES car can run just fine on water but NO you would not bother since if you can do that you can do the EV for twice the range at least.