New Energy’s MotionPower System for Generating Sustainable Electricity from Moving Cars to Debut at High-Traffic Complex in Virginia

New Energy Technologies, Inc. announced that the company’s latest MotionPower-Express system, capable of generating sustainable electricity from moving vehicles, will debut at a high-traffic volume convention, exhibition and cultural center in the Virginia this month.

“We conducted early field tests of MotionPower at Burger King, the Four Seasons Hotel and Holiday Inn Express. Since then, our engineering teams have worked long and hard to bolster power output, improve durability and enhance several key working features and electrical power production of our systems,” explained John A. Conklin, president and CEO of New Energy Technologies, Inc. “The result is our latest MotionPower-Express technology, which will be publicly demonstrated for the first time ever, later this month.”

Today’s announcement marks the first in a number of scheduled events for New Energy’s MotionPower technologies, systems designed as roadway-based installations where vehicles are required to decelerate or stop. MotionPower assists vehicles in slowing down, and in the process of doing so, captures the slowing vehicle’s motion (kinetic) energy before it is otherwise lost as brake heat and friction, creatively converting this energy into “clean,” green electricity.

MotionPower-Express is suited for installation where vehicles are traveling faster than 15 mph and are slowing down before stopping, including: entertainment and amusement, and sports complexes; parking lots; border crossings; exit ramps; neighborhoods with traffic calming zones; rest areas; toll booths; and travel plazas.

The prospect of generating sustainable electricity from moving vehicles is made possible through the use of novel mechanical and fluid-driven technologies unique to New Energy’s MotionPower systems, the subject of 18 new patent filings.

Once fully optimized and installed, engineers anticipate that MotionPower devices may be used to augment or replace conventional residential or commercial electrical supplies used to power roadway signs, street and building lights, emergency power storage systems and other electronics, appliances and devices used in homes and businesses.