They were a success! 1806:
Francois Isaac de Rivaz (born in Paris, December 19, 1752; Died in Sion, July 30, 1828) was a Swiss inventor, credited with inventing and constructing the first successful internal combustion engine in 1806. The engine was powered by a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen gas was contained in a balloon and the ignition was an electrical Volta starter. A year later, Francois Isaac de Rivaz built one of the first automobiles – of course, powered by his new engine.
NOTE: Gasoline was not used for internal combustion engines until 1870.
https://fuel-efficient-vehicles.org/energy-news/?page_id=819
Video of a water powered car from 1974 https://www.bitchute.com/video/VTbTVVWbwMuq/
Awesome post, thanks! This has been an off and on again interest of mine for a number of years now, and haven't seen either of your links before, the 1st one is great, going to watch the 2nd one in a bit.
Edit: Vid was only 1:29, took the time to watch lol. Pretty cool, while the idea seems revolutionary today, it must have really seemed such back then.
Hopefully this gets developed more, great alternative to e-cars, and maybe even able to convert standard cars.
I like to watch Top Gear, and electric cars are not 'there' yet. They always run out of power quickly and take forever to recharge.
H2O is plentiful, cheap and pollution free. Big Oil blocked this for $$$.
Hammond crashes all of them to
Clarkson: "Hammond, you IDIOT!"
Bingo on Big Oil, spot on.
With The Great Awakening revealing many things to humanity, I'm really hoping alternative technologies will be as well. If they haven't been furthered unbeknownst to us, then breaking up the Big companies would allow for development.