New Energy Expands with New Device for Generating Clean Electricity from Motion of Long-Haul Trucks and Buses

New Energy Technologies, Inc. announced that the company is immediately expanding its product range of MotionPower technologies for harvesting the kinetic energy of moving vehicles to generate clean electricity.

Engineers have bolstered the company’s product design and development efforts and are already well underway with building a brand new MotionPower system able to generate clean electricity from moving trucks, buses and other large load-bearing vehicles. This new fluid-driven device augments the company’s recently unveiled prototype of a modular, mechanical roadway device for generating electricity from the motion of cars and light trucks.

“In recent weeks, we have made important strides forward in our development of roadway kinetic energy harvesters for generating clean electricity,” explained Meetesh V. Patel, president and CEO of New Energy Technologies, Inc. “We have successfully prototyped our energy capture system for cars and light trucks, are actively optimizing the device for installation at toll-booths, drive-thrus and other applications, and filed nine new patents to protect our novel MotionPower technology.

“While these events mark significant early achievements for our company, I’m most impressed by the encouraging engineering outcomes that have prompted us to expand our product development efforts to include the capture of kinetic energy from the motion of buses carrying passengers, long-haul rigs transporting cargo, and other load-bearing heavy vehicles.

“Our capacity to capture the kinetic energy of these heavy vehicles and light cars and truck driving billions of miles each day, marks a truly untapped commercial opportunity for New Energy to generate clean electricity in a brand new way,” concluded Patel.

Currently, nearly 70 percent of America’s electricity is generated by coal and natural gas, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The environmental impact of greenhouse gas emissions and rising costs of these non-renewable fuels, along with the potential doubling of global electricity consumption in the coming years, clearly illustrate the urgent need for more creative, sustainable methods for generating electricity in the United States, the world’s largest consumer of electricity.

In response, New Energy engineers have developed MotionPower technologies, designed to generate ‘clean’ electricity by harnessing the kinetic energy of the estimated 250 million registered vehicles which drive more than 6 billion miles on America’s roadways every day.

New Energy’s brand new fluid-driven MotionPower energy harvester for heavy trucks and vehicles compliments the company’s recently-prototyped mechanical MotionPower system for cars and light trucks.

Engineers have concluded early design efforts and are well underway with prototyping New Energy’s new fluid-driven energy harvester for trucks and heavy vehicles.

Meanwhile, New Energy’s first-generation MotionPower device has already been prototyped and configured as a modular, low-profile assembly, which can be mounted directly atop existing roadways with little or no modification to the roadway itself. MotionPower modules can be quickly installed and any components in need of replacement or repair can be quickly and easily changed without major construction work and accompanying delays to traffic. Above all, the unit’s modular design provides installers with the flexibility of shortening or lengthening the MotionPower energy harvester in order to customize the system based on site conditions while maximizing power output.

Once installed, engineers anticipate that MotionPower devices may be used to augment or replace conventional electrical supplies for powering roadway signs, street and building lights, storage systems for back-up and emergency power and other electronics, appliances and devices in homes and businesses.