Eli5: Why do automobiles operate with diesel or petrol but not with water?

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Eli5: Why do automobiles operate with diesel or petrol but not with water?

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Because water is not a fuel source. You can use the hydrogen and oxygen that water is composed of as a fuel source, but it takes just as much energy to split the molecule using electrolysis as you get out of it when you burn the hydrogen and oxygen back together in to water.

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