Can anyone convert a gas-running car to one that runs on water?

You can't, because water is the WASTE product of combustion, not the fuel.

You need the components of water before they are combined (2 parts hydrogen, one oxygen) - these separated components will burn and create energy when they combine - water is the waste product.

OK, simple, you just need hydrogen (oxygen can come from the air), but hydrogen is a gas at room temperature and is explosive from 4% to 98% in air. So it is dangerous (look at the Hindenburg).

You can liquify hydrogen to make it a liquid, but you now have rocket fuel (look at the Challenger explosion).

You can combine hydrogen gas with carbon to form a liquid hydrocarbon fuel, which is what we have today: gasoline. This is great from the energy standpoint: the carbon burns to form CO2, but bad from a greenhouse gas point of view.

The trick today is to capture hydrogen on a fine substrate that will hold the gaseous hydrogen in a solid state as a hydride, or, use hydrogen in a fuel cell arrangement to directly convert hydrogen to H2O.

Anyone that tells you that you can run a car on water doesn't know what they are talking about thermodynamically, regardless of the "conversion" - it is not possible.

That sounds highly suspicious. I imagine you are thinking wow, I could just fill my tank up with water instead of gas with a few modifications! To which I have to say no.

Water does not work like a fuel. Fuel undergoes a chemical reaction known as combustion. During combustion energy is released as fuel is turned into water and carbon dioxide. Water cannot be combusted - its the final product of combustion.

Water will not fuel your engine. There are engines however that use water, like a steam engine. A steam engine uses fuel to boil water. The boiled water will compress pistons or spin turbines, but water here is not the fuel. You still have to burn fuel to make the steam. Steam locomotives burned coal to make steam.

It sounds like these guys you talked to are doing something like that. Sure technically they are making a car run on water - but in reality they are using fuel to make that car run on water. You'd be better sticking with your current engine that doesn't rely on water to run itself - your engine is far more efficient.

Here are some real means to fuel your engine that aren't gasoline: Biodiesel, a fuel made from canola oil and grain alcohol; Ethanol, simply grain alcohol; Solar, taking advantage of the Sun's combustion reaction to power your own car (a lot of people scoff, but with the right technology, one could make this work); Used cooking oil, its trash that companies are getting rid of anyway (this takes some serious modifications, but I've heard it works).

why they want the car run on water?
do they want the boat run on road?
don't make things unusual or complicated.
it doesn't work that way. the gas engine will be ruined if it's run on water.

No, a car runs off an internal combustion engine. In order for it to work something must be burned. It is possible to run a car off the glycerin in vegetable oil but it has to be treated a certain way. Hydrogen cars combusts hydrogen and oxygen to make water. But the problem with a hydrogen cell is it's a bomb on wheels. Your better off just taking car of your car with regular maintenance checks so that you car runs at it's highest efficiency.

At first cars running on water should be available commercially. Then the question of conversion arises. Still I am not sure whether cars running on water. However cars running on Hydrogen is on testing.

But you can not convert petrol/diesel car to hydrogen car. The reason is simple. We had trains running by coal & steam engine. Later on when Diesel or electric engines are invented we did not convert steam engine to new verson, as it is not possible.

You can not convert a valve set radio to microprrsesor controled music system.

No. These are individuals who are trying to make a quick buck, such as Guido Franch, who managed to scam investors out of considerable amounts of money (reference 1).

Many of these individuals are trying to hawk perpetual motion or "zero point energy" or other claims that are enticing, but not realistic (reference 2).

If anyone were to develop a vehicle that could run on water alone, it would have been reported in a science journal long ago. Water is a product of combustion; it cannot be used economically in an engine as a fuel. While some materials (metallic sodium, etc.) will react explosively with water, these compounds cost far more than gasoline, and are even more dangerous and difficult to handle.

Interestingly, some buses and other diesel engines can use water to make them more efficient. In the combustion process, the water is transformed from a liquid to a vapor; this rapid expansion (flashing from liquid to steam) is energetic, and helps drive the pistons of the engine. However, much more fuel is needed than water to produce this heat; a *little* water helps, but too much- let alone running the entire engine with water- will quickly stop it.

yes, it's possible, but I've heard chaining it to run on vegetable oil is much easier

give me 500 dollars and we can find out!


no, the truth is anyone who says they can make a gas engine run on water is lying. it'll work for a few minutes off the fumes of the gas that was previously in it.

now, hydrogen cells are different, but i don't know if they are available to consumers.