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Originally Posted by Willravel
I'm not sure why people aren't just using what I call the Willravel method:
Solar panels power electrolysis (or a battery if it's cloudy), separating hydrogen and oxygen from water, which are each funneled into a Wankel (rotary) combustion chamber.
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Generally, this is promising. Unfortunately, solar panels are nowhere near as efficient as necessary to produce the power required for such a process. At least not on a car.
And I think that even with battery power, the cost of producing hydrogen from water is greater than the energy it ultimately produces, so there would be a net loss of energy. Why not just go straight electric?