New Energy Engineers Work to Increase Electricity Output from MotionPower-Heavy

Having recently completed the company’s first commercial-scale MotionPower-Heavy prototype, New Energy Technologies, Inc. announced that engineers are now working to design, test and refine the technology’s ability to increase and regulate the amount of energy captured by the system in order to maximize its production of electricity.

New Energy’s MotionPower-Heavy system is mounted flush to the roadway. This discreet, non-disruptive energy harvesting technology is made possible through the novel application of fluid-driven systems. The company’s unique approach capitalizes on the smooth flow of pressurized fluids and avoids the use of moving mechanical parts, which can be financially expensive, prone to mechanical failure, and inefficient as a consequence of mechanical friction.

The system is fabricated using highly-durable yet deformable roadway surface materials which are embedded flush to the driving surface, parallel to the direction of moving traffic. As drivers pass over the deformable surface material, their vehicles’ tires depress the surface and any excess kinetic energy of the vehicle is discreetly captured for conversion to electricity by MotionPower.

New Energy’s flush-mounted MotionPower systems are designed to capture the unused kinetic energy of slowing heavy commercial vehicles only at points where they are required to slow down or come to a stop, thus ensuring that moving vehicles are not ‘robbed’ of energy otherwise required to accelerate. Once captured, the Company’s MotionPower technology creatively converts this excess kinetic energy into sustainable electricity.

New Energy plans to conduct field-tests of the system in real world settings, such as Heller Industrial Parks’ flagship 8.7 million square foot industrial park in metropolitan New York.