Water-powered cars beat electric and hydrogen hands-down
By now, most people have seen the clip on YouTube or even the feature-length documentary about GM crushing its 1999 electric cars at the behest of Big Oil. Ironically, GM are now trying to furiously claw back their initial advantage with the Volt, though the field is a lot more crowded now.
Electric cars are all the rage, as illustrated by the British Government’s announcement last week of a £25m scheme to get the public to test-drive electric cars from various manufacturers. John Walsh of the London Independent tested several of them, including the Tesla roadster, far and away the car of choice for anyone looking for speed and style, although a US home-made drag car version is just as powerful and a little more unique.
But as I’ve written before, switching from oil to electricity is a little like switching from heroin to methadone: it’s still addictive, messy and unhealthy. More interesting to me are complete alternatives, like the hydrogen-powered car, although refuelling for this one could be a little more complicated. But my number one prize goes to the Japanese water powered car - who can fault water as the fuel of the future? Well, Big Energy, maybe! Is that why we haven’t seen any publicity about this one? The only method that could be more innocent to the environment is the velocipede - that’s right, pure calorie-fuelled energy as you pedal – for 14,000 dollars!!! Glass of water, anyone?
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