source:

http://www8.irna.ir/en/News/81987880/

http://www.transients.info/roundtable/threads/iranian-scientist-takes-his-water-powered-car-for-a-spin.1645/

runs on 60 litres (15 gallons) of water, and is able to travel up to 900 kilometres (559 miles) in 10 hours. The power is generated after H2O is split into hydrogen and oxygen which react chemically to produce energy, the car's engine only produces water vapour.

Iranian scientist takes his "water-powered car" for a spin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSHKt9kWRGg

lets just hope he does not end up in an "accident". like so many others who upset the petroleum industry.

I m not much of a car person but what is the difference between this and the Toyota Mirai?

Impressive if true. I'm a bit skeptical about this though, just because of Iran.

Anyway, not a new idea, and I'm not sure whether I should be surprised it hasn't happened in large scale already.

This makes no sense to me, how would the car split water (requiring energy) and then recombine then burn the two gasses to make water (giving energy) and then have a net positive output of energy? This just sounds like a round about way to make an electric car or does he have a separate facility to split the water?  

I'm at work. I didn't watch the video because I have to conserve my data (for videos like this: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=223427&). If it works the way I imagine it does, and for a reasonable price, it could change the world!

The Mirai isn't using water per se and the Hydrogen that you need is coming from dirty industries, making the car not that clean. Though people like to exaggerate and claim it's super dirty although it's still way cleaner than any fuel car that are just a pile of dirt when you open them up.

Still not new. Won't happen anyways because of money and "lower specs".

Alright this has to be BS.

" A litre (0.26 gallons) of water can reportedly generate some 96 megajoules (MJ) of energy while a litre of gasoline produces only 29 megajoules (MJ) of energy."

We're seriously supposed to believe that not only does this car run on water, but it produces far more energy from an equivelent amount of water to fuel?

I see. Thanks 

It is more affordable I guess. Besides is the power to split H20 sustainably generated in the first place one might wonder. If not it's less sustainable than a BMW I3 which is also build sustainably.

Time for the US to invade Iran and destroy that technology for good.