A Car can be made to run on Water. So why isn't one on the Market?

Question

Oil supplies will probably run out in the next three decades.
And we have known that for ages......

Answer 1

Do you think the tax man and petrol companys are stupid they would lose a lot of money if the alowed that to happen they probably paid off whoever came up with the idea and shelved the patent. I can remember years ago someone made an engine run of chicken droppings and sold the idea to BP or some company and they shelved it

Answer 2

Because if tax on water was as high as the tax on petrol/diesel, there would be pandemonium. It's bad enough that we already pay through the nose for a necessity which is infinite in supply (it is a scientific fact that the amount of water on Earth is constant; it just moves from place to place), but imagine if the Government charged us almost £1 per litre of water, as the British Government do with petrol/diesel. People would be fighting in the streets.

Secondly, as I have mentioned, water is infinite. Oil isn't, thus as demand increases and supply diminishes, the cost goes up. It's basic economics.

Similarly, a light-bulb that never blows has also been invented. However, it will never be marketed because eventually every household would have them and certain companies would be out of business.

Answer 3

First of all, the oil we have now is projected to last at least another 100 years. On top of that, we are finding new oil all the time.

There are engines that run on hydrogen, but none that run on water. A hydrogen fuel cell can be used to extract the hydrogen from water to run the engine, if that is what you are thinking of. These are extremely expensive to produce, however. The reason a hydrogen car isn't on the market is that no manufacturer wants to mass produce a car that would look like a Ford Taurus and have a price tag of $250,000. Supply and demand.

Answer 4

Well, there are a lot of factors involved in the alternative fuels and transportation debate:

First of all, cars that run on water I can only assume cannot produce as much power at the cost efficiency of regular gas combustion vehicles

Secondly, there is a whole oil industry that is probably not exactly jumping at the idea of water powered vehicles.

Thirdly, it means a lot of R&D for car manufacturers that they probably don't want to spend the money on.

Fourthly, I believe that people....while they say they want change and to help the environment/power issues....they're actually only willing to go through so much inconvenience...... ie. - We've known for ages that a bicycle works as a mode of viable transportation......but why don't more people bike to work? Well, because people don't want to live closer to work.....they don't want to physically exercise.....etc. etc. etc.

Same with public transportation in Southern California......

Ultimately, it comes down to the destruction of a system that works and a shift in business power.....and people are just not invonvenicenced enough yet by the drawbacks of using gas to really care.

Answer 5

They have made a car that runs on hydrogen(which is a component of water as you know) besides the expense at this stage you have the oil companies who would buy anyone out in a second if they brought a cheap car on the market that ran on hydrogen. There are too many oil companies in this world who have the clout to control the manufacture of such things! If you owned an oil company the last thign you would liek to see is a car that ran on water and was availble cheap to the public! As for 30 years left of oil that is pure speculation at this time!

Answer 6

Right now, the expensive development costs would force something that would probably look like a Vauxhall Vectra to be priced too heavily for many. The Toyota Prius is a pretty different concept with the same aim, but that costs up to £20000, which makes it a bland hatchback priced towards VW Golf GTI and BMW money, and it's less economical than a diesel Ford Focus or Golf!

It would take a lot of energy to produce the hydrogen,, which is one in the balls if you beleive in this 'global warming' thing, and the technology is in it's infancy a tthe moment.

Answer 7

Because the gas companies want to make as much money as possible before the oil supply runs out. Why else is gas so expensive? I would also guess because there are a lot of old cars that people own due to sentimental reasons, or because they collect, and to convert that to hydrogen would probably require major alterations to the vehicle, which would be really expensive, and would get reduce the monetary/sentimental value.

Answer 8

Actually its not easy to create energy out of regular water. You can get water burning hydrogen and oxygen, but that is a by product of hydrogen/oxygen fuel. I have never heard of a car running on water unless they invented cars running on fusion generators as that shown in "Back to the Future" movie. The engines that run on water are steam engines, but those require water to be boiled by using coal or oil to create steam that runs the engine. It will be great to get the source of where you got that info. I will then post it on my site.

Answer 9

simple reason is the all the BIG peterol companies would loose millions over the Deal, and also so will the car companies, because only one car company will be able to buy the rights to it, so the stock market interduce a law in 1982 can inside trading, that why no company will do it,PLAN SAYING: IT BAD FOR ALL THE BIG BOYS.

Answer 10

because oil costs money water if free sort off .but as oil runs out water driven cars will become the norm and water will be expensive simple