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Alternative electricity-generating system harnesses energy from slowing vehicles.
The porte-cochere at the Four Seasons Hotel Washington, D.C. will serve as the first hotel-based test site for a new technology that captures vehicles’ excess kinetic rolling energy and converts it to electricity. The system, known as the MotionPower- Auto, is the creation of New Energy Technologies Inc.
“We are privileged to be working alongside such a well-noted brand as the Four Seasons as we continue to advance the development of our MotionPower technology with this second set of durability tests,” said Meetesh Patel, New Energy Technologies’s president and ceo. “The data we collected from our first set of tests at a high-traffic Burger King drive-thru during the busy Labor Day long weekend has already produced significant engineering improvements to our MotionPower technology, and I’m hopeful we can replicate that same success at the Four Seasons in the upcoming weeks.”
The MotionPower technology is designed to be installed in locations where vehicles are required to reduce their speed, thus ensuring that the system only makes use of vehicle energy that would be required to slow down and does not “rob” vehicles of energy they would otherwise use to accelerate. Once fully optimized and installed, New Energy Techology says the MotionPower devices may be used to augment or replace conventional electrical supplies.