New Energy Technologies, Inc. is developing novel MotionPower™ technologies which harness excess vehicle energy (‘kinetic’ or ‘rolling’ energy) and convert it to sustainable electricity:

• MotionPower™-Auto
  Generating electricity from the motion of cars and light trucks
• MotionPower™-Heavy
  Generating electricity from the motion of heavy trucks, big rigs, buses, and large commercial vehicles.

To-date, New Energy has filed nine new patent applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and two international patent applications in order protect revolutionary features of our MotionPower™ technologies.

Our MotionPower™ devices are engineered as a practical and useful alternative energy technology for generating clean electricity from the millions of vehicles on our roadways.  More than 250 million vehicles are registered in America, and an estimated 6 billion miles are driven on our nation’s roads every day.

Once fully optimized and 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 even devices used in homes and businesses.

As millions of vehicles slow or come to a stop at toll plazas, rest areas, traffic calming areas, drive-thrus, and countless other roadway points, their motion energy, derived from the burning of fossil fuels, is dissipated in brakes and lost as heat to the environment.

New Energy’s MotionPower™ devices, currently under development, use this lost energy to generate electricity.

The prospect of sustainably converting the motion and deceleration of these vehicles into electricity to power homes, commercial buildings, street intersections, commercial applications and more represents a significant opportunity.

The environmental impact of greenhouses gas emissions and rising costs of those non-renewable fuels, along with the potential doubling of global electricity consumption in the coming years requires the urgent need for more creative, sustainable methods of generating electricity.

Nearly 70% of America’s electricity is generated by natural gas and coal, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Kinetic Energy

Kinetic energy is the energy of motion, such as a bullet fired from a gun or a football that has been kicked. Some forms of kinetic energy are more subtle, like the waves of heat from a burning fire or a speaker that vibrates as sound waves emanate from it.

Of course, one of the most common and also most powerful kinds of kinetic energy is the energy produced from a moving vehicle.

All vehicles in motion possess kinetic energy. The amount of kinetic energy a vehicle possesses is based upon the vehicle’s speed and weight. The faster the vehicle is moving and the more it weighs, the more kinetic energy it possesses.

The First Law of Thermodynamics states that the amount of energy in the Universe is constant. Energy cannot be added or taken away, created or destroyed.

It can only change from one form to another, like heat to light, chemical energy to electrical energy, or chemical energy to mechanical motion.

When a moving vehicle slows down, it wastes some of its kinetic energy in the process of braking. If a device is to harvest a vehicle’s kinetic energy, the vehicle must slow down.

A vehicle energy harvester functions as an “external regenerative brake,” by helping a vehicle slow down and thereby capturing and converting a portion of the vehicle’s wasted kinetic energy into useful electricity rather than wasted brake heat.