Tests of New Energy’s Technology for Generating Electricity from Moving Cars Produce 25-Fold Increase in Energy Capture

New Energy Technologies, Inc. announced that ongoing tests of the company’s MotionPower-Auto technology for generating electricity from the movement of cars and light trucks have produced a 25-fold increase in its capacity to capture energy from moving vehicles – an important breakthrough in maximizing the amount of electricity generated by the system.

“Each step we take to produce greater output moves us one step closer to commercialization of this brand new technology,” stated Meetesh Patel, president and CEO of New Energy Technologies, Inc. “The prospect of capturing 25-times greater kinetic energy from a moving vehicle, without disrupting the driver experience, marks a significant step in optimizing our MotionPower system and builds on several advances our engineers have recently achieved, including greater durability, lower maintenance costs, reduced size, and the capacity to increase electrical output.”

New Energy’s MotionPower technology is designed to be installed in locations where vehicles are required to reduce their speed, thus ensuring that the system only makes use of vehicle energy that would be required to slow down and does not ‘rob’ vehicles of energy they would otherwise use to accelerate. The MotionPower system generates valuable electricity by creatively capturing and converting the vehicles’ excess kinetic rolling energy.

With these enhancements incorporated into the next-generation MotionPower™ prototype, engineers anticipate the system will capture and deliver more than 25 times the energy of the original prototype recently field-tested at a Burger King drive-thru over the busy Labor Day long weekend, the Four Seasons Hotel Washington, DC on Columbus Day, and the Holiday Inn Express in Baltimore, MD.

Every day, millions of vehicles slow or come to a stop at toll plazas, rest areas, traffic calming areas, drive-thrus, and countless other roadway points. New Energy’s MotionPower devices make use of the energy wasted by these millions of cars, trucks, and heavy vehicles when they slow down or come to a full stop countless times throughout the day, and convert this otherwise unused energy into valuable electricity.