Water Powered Car

Alternative Vehicles, Cool rides, concept cars June 24th, 2009

Here’s a really cool car even though the concept sounds a bit far fetched but seems a professor in Japan has created a car that runs on water, talk about cheap, easy attainable fuel.

The company responsible for the car is called Genepax. The hi tech car works by extracting the hydrogen from the water that is poured into the cars tank. Electrons are then somehow released producing electricity to power the motor.

The company does have plans for this concept car with plans to mass produce the water car.

Water-fuel car unveiled in Japan

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Jun. 13 – Japanese company Genepax presents its eco-friendly car that runs on nothing but water.

The car has an energy generator that extracts hydrogen from water that is poured into the car’s tank. The generator then releases electrons that produce electric power to run the car. Genepax, the company that invented the technology, aims to collaborate with Japanese manufacturers to mass produce it.

Motorcycle Cars

Alternative Vehicles, Cool rides, Crazy Cars, Motorcycles March 19th, 2009

For anyone who ever wanted a safer bike, here we go with the motorcycle cars.

Combining a car and a bike? this may be the wrong way to do it below.

bike crashes into car - car motorcycle wreck

Homemade motorcycle cars, well homemade as in created by individuals and not an auto manufacturer.  This one is in Italy and looks like someone took a bike and enclosed it. The tiny little side tires look like training wheels and really need to go. If it wasn’t for the training wheels, this bike would look really sweet.

homemede motorcycle car

This is the ecomobile, looks like the one above minus the training wheels

carbike

This bike car is pretty cool, looks like a really small 3wheeler.

homemede car

Hawk Concept Car

The Hawk Concept car / bike was created by a designer from New Zealand – Alex Hodge. It is a concept car that combines a motorcycle engine with some features you find in cars such as more room, an enclosure for increased safety and high back seat.

hawk concept car

motorcycle car concept car Hawk

The Venture enclosed 3 wheel motorcycle

mbike car

venture motorcycle car

Rocket bike car

The Baron Margo Rocket Car is a creative mix of bike / car and… a rocket. Now, I’m not sure if the rocket part of it really works. That would be a bit scary if it did, would not want to be behind him at a light.

baron margo rocket car

the Rocket car

rocket car

The Budweiser Rocket Car of 1979

Alternative Vehicles, Crazy Cars, Sick Toys, concept cars January 19th, 2009

The Budweiser Rocket Car of 1979

budweiser rocket car

I guess this one may have been a bit disappointing, but a goot try none the less.

The Budweiser rocket car was built in 1979 and they planned to breakland speed records with a rocket car that could exceed the speed of sound. The Budweiser rocket car was supposed to be the very first land vehicle to break the sound barrier.

Stan Barrett drove the jet car on Dec. 17, 1979 and the rest is wrapped in controversy.  It seems no one knows if the vehicle broke the sound barrier or not. I must wonder where the speedometer was here, but the rumor is that no sonic boom was heard pointing to maybe, the sound barrier was not broken.