I have uncles and brothers in the car market (no literally, I have been to family events with the owners of GM and Chrysler). Here is what my uncles basically tell me (they’re engineers/designers). The guys in charge, are stupid. Plain and simple. They don’t want to build hybrids and clean cars, because no one wants to buy them (or didn’t until this gas thing really hit). Everyone in America wanted a huge f-ing SUV, so they made huge f-ing SUV’s. Completely ignoring the fact that they were focusing themselves onto a small market (not everyone can afford a huge SUV), that was shrunk even further when the oil crisis hit. The engineers have long known this is bad strategy, but the owners don’t care is the problem.
GM right now is making the “volt.” It’s a car that has a lithium ion battery supplemented by a tiny engine. It will go like 50 miles without any gas, and then gets like 45 or something like that miles to the gallon. It’ll be done in like 2 years and there’s already about 10k of them ordered. They FINALLY have come around to realizing the type of cars they need to build, because their foolish ways smacked them in the face (and in all likelihood they won’t all make it).
For the record, I wouldn’t expect to see any hydrogen cars in mass production anytime soon. The changes in technology are simply WAY to drastic. That and I don’t know if you’ve noticed but there’s not a lot of hydrogen fuel stations around. Battery powered you will see though, cuz everyone can plug their car in no problem. And in fact virtually every major car manufacturer has some kind of battery powered car in production or R+D right now.
And water powered cars…. i’m fairly certain you’ve been fooled, lol.