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PLAYA 2U · 06-24-2008, 06:07 AM

Petrol pricey? Japanese invent car that runs on water

Fri Jun 13, 2008 5:53pm IST
TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Tired of petrol prices rising daily at the pump? A Japanese company has invented an electric-powered, and environmentally friendly, car that it says runs solely on water.
Genepax unveiled the car in the western city of Osaka on Thursday, saying that a liter (2.1 pints) of any kind of water -- rain, river or sea -- was all you needed to get the engine going for about an hour at a speed of 80 km (50 miles).
"The car will continue to run as long as you have a bottle of water to top up from time to time," Genepax CEO Kiyoshi Hirasawa told local broadcaster TV Tokyo.
"It does not require you to build up an infrastructure to recharge your batteries, which is usually the case for most electric cars," he added.
Once the water is poured into the tank at the back of the car, the a generator breaks it down and uses it to create electrical power, TV Tokyo said.
Whether the car makes it into showrooms remains to be seen. Genepax said it had just applied for a patent and is hoping to collaborate with Japanese auto manufacturers in the future.
Most big automakers, meanwhile, are working on fuel-cell cars that run on hydrogen and emit -- not consume -- water.
(Writing by Chika Osaka, editing by Miral Fahmy and Chang-Ran Kim)

RoboNate · 06-24-2008, 10:24 AM

God, please let this be true. I'll fly to Tokyo to buy this if it doesn't make it to the US. There goes McCain's $300 million prize.

06-24-2008, 06:07 AM	#1 (permalink)
PLAYA 2U Hall of Famer Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 7,090	Japenese Invents Car That Runs On Water Petrol pricey? Japanese invent car that runs on water Fri Jun 13, 2008 5:53pm IST TOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Tired of petrol prices rising daily at the pump? A Japanese company has invented an electric-powered, and environmentally friendly, car that it says runs solely on water. Genepax unveiled the car in the western city of Osaka on Thursday, saying that a liter (2.1 pints) of any kind of water -- rain, river or sea -- was all you needed to get the engine going for about an hour at a speed of 80 km (50 miles). "The car will continue to run as long as you have a bottle of water to top up from time to time," Genepax CEO Kiyoshi Hirasawa told local broadcaster TV Tokyo. "It does not require you to build up an infrastructure to recharge your batteries, which is usually the case for most electric cars," he added. Once the water is poured into the tank at the back of the car, the a generator breaks it down and uses it to create electrical power, TV Tokyo said. Whether the car makes it into showrooms remains to be seen. Genepax said it had just applied for a patent and is hoping to collaborate with Japanese auto manufacturers in the future. Most big automakers, meanwhile, are working on fuel-cell cars that run on hydrogen and emit -- not consume -- water. (Writing by Chika Osaka, editing by Miral Fahmy and Chang-Ran Kim) __________________ Experience is what you get , when you don't get what you want!

06-24-2008, 10:24 AM	#2 (permalink)
RoboNate Hall of Famer Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 7,479	God, please let this be true. I'll fly to Tokyo to buy this if it doesn't make it to the US. There goes McCain's $300 million prize. __________________ “He’s scary athletic,” D’Antoni said of Robinson. “Wherever I put him, whatever team I put him on, was the team that was winning.”

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