A CAR that has no need for petrol or diesel and its only output is water has been unveiled.

The two-seater Rasa car is instead powered by hydrogen and can travel up to 300 miles before refuelling and has a top speed of 60mph.

Perhaps most amazingly of all the Rasa wasn’t designed and built in California, Germany or Japan but on the Ddole Road Industrial Estate in Llandrindod Wells.

Riversimple Movement, the company behind the car, was named the winner of the judge’s prize at last year’s Powys Business Awards and developed the car with a £2m Welsh Government grant.

It has tested its road-legal prototype - that was assembled in Llandrindod - on local roads with trips to Penybont and Presteigne.

A 12 month trial is due to start later this year, funded by a £1.6m European Union grant, and could be in full production by 2018.

Founder, Hugo Spowers, said: "The Rasa engineering prototype marks another key milestone in bringing an affordable and highly-efficient hydrogen- powered car to market.

"We really have started from a clean sheet of paper. The Rasa gives us the opportunity to introduce customers to a more convenient concept of motoring, a lightness of ownership that neither places a burden on the pockets of motorists or the surrounding environment. The car is simple, light and fun in every respect."