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The simple reason is that energy companies want money, and lots of it. If you could run your car (or anything else for that matter) on water, they wouldn't make as much money because water is cheap.
Hydrogen is just fossil fuel++ and might actually be worse than just burning methane or no change at all since the emissions can be hidden. Producing hydrogen from water is a great deal more expensive that stripping the hydrogen from fossil fuels. This still emits the carbon just not at the tail pipe.
Using electrolysis to split water into hydrogen and oxygen literally only produces hydrogen and oxygen; the two elements that make water. It's also 80% cheaper than extracting it from fossil fuels or biomass (peat). 🤨
If that's true... Then why is almost all hydrogen still being extracted from fossil fuels?
See my first comment.