New Energy Advances Engineering and Fabrication of Commercial-Scale Prototype

New Energy Technologies, Inc., developer of MotionPower technologies for generating sustainable electricity from the kinetic energy of moving vehicles and SolarWindow technologies capable of generating electricity on see-thru glass windows, announced that engineers have successfully completed the most important engineering and fabrication steps required in the development of the company’s MotionPower-Heavy technology for generating electricity from the motion of heavy commercial vehicles, including trucks, long-haul rigs, and buses.

“These engineering advancements enable us to begin in-house tests of the first ever commercial-scale prototype of our MotionPower-Heavy device, and mark a major development milestone,” explained Meetesh V. Patel, president and CEO of New Energy Technologies, Inc. “I’m eager to advance these trials
to include field-testing in real-world installation sites, similar to
field-tests conducted for our MotionPower-Auto technology for generating electricity from moving cars.”

Earlier, the company’s MotionPower-Auto technology underwent durability field-tests at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, DC, a prominent Burger King quick-service franchise during the busy Labor Day long weekend in Hillside, NJ, and a Holiday Inn Express in Baltimore, MD. These field tests were undertaken following advanced prototyping and in-house testing of the MotionPower-Auto system. Following these important field tests, engineers were able to achieve a 25-fold increase in the system’s capacity to capture energy from moving cars and light trucks.

Similarly, engineers anticipate advancing in-house testing of New Energy’s MotionPower-Heavy technology to include field tests at commercial sites where the motion of heavy trucks, long haul rigs and buses can be used to generate sustainable electricity.

New Energy’s MotionPower-Heavy technology is designed to capture the ‘kinetic energy’ of a heavy commercial vehicle when it comes to a stop. The system subsequently converts this otherwise unused energy into valuable electricity. Heavy-duty trucks have up to 25 times more kinetic energy than a typical car traveling at the same speed.