A Vehicle that runs on Saltwater.

[onthecuttingedge2005]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-7ISaQYmlA

[waterandwater]

Thanks a lot that,s the Future

[Cloxxki]

Which Top Gear episode was this? I think I missed it.

I like the modular design.
Not sure about the Hydrogen part. It would take large refineries to produce it, and large storages along highways and in neighbourhoods to be able to "tank" it like you would petrol. HHO on demand is so much more promising. We do have to do away with the basic combustion engine design though, especially in case we find we cannot get much better than 200% efficiency in producing HHO. Breaking 100% may not immadiately bring us at 400-500% as needed to conveniently convert an existing car.

[onthecuttingedge2005]

Which Top Gear episode was this? I think I missed it.

I like the modular design.
Not sure about the Hydrogen part. It would take large refineries to produce it, and large storages along highways and in neighbourhoods to be able to "tank" it like you would petrol. HHO on demand is so much more promising. We do have to do away with the basic combustion engine design though, especially in case we find we cannot get much better than 200% efficiency in producing HHO. Breaking 100% may not immadiately bring us at 400-500% as needed to conveniently convert an existing car.

I don't see why this Hydrogen Car wouldn't run HHO, the circuitry onboard break down the sea water into Hydrogen and Oxygen anyways and you have to recombine the Oxygen for rapid combustion.

[Cloxxki]

I don't see why this Hydrogen Car wouldn't run HHO, the circuitry onboard break down the sea water into Hydrogen and Oxygen anyways and you have to recombine the Oxygen for rapid combustion.

I don't think it has a water tank, just Hydrogen?
In a complicated and rather boring way, as James says, you're not filling up the batteries of your electric car, you're tanking Hydrogen which was taken from salted water (not sea water per se), likely somewhere at a big Exxon facility.
Once someone makes efficient water breeking, the small diesel engine in smart hybrids will be replaced by a hydrogen engine, water tank, and HHO making cell. Being efficient, hybrid style, about your water economy, seems a bit over the top though, so ditch the electric engine altogether. Use a 1980's simple 4-cylinder engine, re-tune for HHO, and blast away.

Apart from the boring Hydrogen cell, the car does seem interesting. I wonder how those hand controls work though, if you have to pick your nose on the highway?