Genepax Water and Air Powered Car-We Are Still Waiting!

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Its been almost one year from the time Genepax Co. Ltd. CEO Mr. Kiyoshi Hirasawa, unveiled a prototype of their water and air powered car in Osaka, Japan. The prototype could not have been unveiled at a better time than it was. The global economy is eagerly waiting to sample the first units as soon as such roll out from the production line. Taking into consideration the effect of the global economic down-turn, a water and air powered vehicle if offered at an affordable price, would cannibalize all other players in the automobile industry unless they adopt the new technology with haste.

At this time of economic downturn, who wouldn’t want to walk into the kitchen to fetch tap-water instead of driving into a filling station? Besides, high gas prices have a ripple effect and they get to affect every other item on our shopping list.
Another advantage of the water powered engine is that it is eco-friendly since it has no CO2 emissions. And this particular car unlike other electric cars, does not require charging of batteries.

According to Mr. Kiyoshi Hirasawa, as was reported by Reuters (click Reuters)this car can run on any type of water, tap, rain, sea water, tea or even soda. Once water is poured into the cars tank, the car has an energy generator that extracts hydrogen from water that is in the tank. The generator then releases electrons that produce electric power to run the car.

The unveiling of such a car would be welcomed by the ultimate users because of the gas savings, by car dealers since the no-gas advantage would create massive virgin demand and by environmentalists because it has no CO2 emissions.

On the other hand we have the losers who will naturally fight this idea as long as they can hold it back. Amongst the potential losers are the petroleum rich nations and cartels, due to the expected fall in demand and price of petroleum. Government revenue collection agencies are also expected to put up a fight since petroleum is one of the biggest revenue earner for most governments; most governments collect between 40% to 65% of the pump price as petroleum tax and levy. The third lot of losers are car manufacturers who are not willing to invest in the new technology, since they might die a natural death.

According to Genepax CEO, the production cost for mass produced units was to be about ¥500,000 or lower. This amount translates to approximately US$ 5,050.

Did Genepax get a Japanese auto manufacturer to partner with so as to get the car into mass production? Many questions remain unanswered, but we hope and pray that soon we will have such cars available.