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Petrol pricey? Japanese invent car that runs on nothing
but water
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.
Written by Chika Osaka, editing by Miral Fahmy and Chang-Ran Kim
http://runyourcarwithwater.org/default.htm