Thai inventor whose passion is motor vehicle engineering, Sumitr Issarangkul Na Ayudhya, will organize a news conference at a motor show in Sriracha next month to show how he makes his car runs on pure water.

With a new innovative electrolysis technology, Mr. Sumitr said the device splits water into hydrogen and oxygen and injected hydrogen gases into motor vehicle internal combustion engine just like a conventional gasoline.

The box, which retrofitted into a car’s trunk, is12 by 10-inch in dimension and called the Reactor 1.

“The concept is to extract hydrogen from water by a 12-volt battery to fuel motor vehicle as does the gasoline,” Mr. Sumitr said.

“The Reactor 1 is designed to gradually extract hydrogen from water to inject into vehicle internal combustion engine so it does not need to store hydrogen in a fuel tank.”

“Hydrogen burns quickly at low temperature like gasoline burning and the device just functions like a conventional electrolysis technology you found in the market.”

“Extracting hydrogen from water generates high energy and heat, but the Reactor 1 is designed to control heat in a safety level and it produces only pure water out of the exhaustion pipe,” he added.

Mr. Sumitr said that, due to safety concern, the next development, the Reactor 2, will have electronic functions to control fuel injection in an appropriate mixture into the vehicle engine.

In term of fuel efficiency, a group of test drivers has conducted a long-range test drive of 560 kilometers from Bangkok to Udorn Thani, which used only 10 liters of gasoline.

The team has not yet made record on acceleration, but they said water-powered car’s acceleration is not different than those conventional gasoline-powered vehicles.