New Energy Technologies, Inc. announced that engineers have completed development of the company’s newest MotionPower prototype for generating electricity from the movement of cars and light trucks, and will now undertake active field tests of the device at a drive-thru located at a prominent Burger King franchise in the New York metropolitan area.

“I’m proud to announce that our engineering team has successfully completed our newest, ultra-low profile, modular, second-generation MotionPower prototype. We’re eager to field test the device in a real world setting as part of our ongoing efforts to aggressively engineer, test, refine, and ultimately, commercially launch America’s first active roadway energy capture system of its kind,” explained Meetesh V. Patel, president and CEO of New Energy Technologies, Inc.

The company announced plans to initiate durability testing of its MotionPower prototype device at quick-service giant, Burger King’s, prominent franchise restaurant in the New York Metro area. Located in Hillside, NJ, the Burger King outlet is owned and operated by entrepreneurs, Andrew Paterno and Michael Wallstein, who own and operate 12 Burger King restaurants in the New York Metro area.

“It’s very exciting to be involved in the early testing and development of a brand new technology designed to generate electricity from the motion of vehicles. More than 150,000 cars drive through our Hillside store alone each year, and I think it would be great to capture the wasted kinetic energy of these hundreds of thousands of cars to generate clean electricity,” stated Paterno.

Engineers have designed and built New Energy’s latest MotionPower prototype as an ultra-low profile, modular device which can be easily customized to varying lengths based on site requirements. Once fully optimized for efficiency, engineers envision New Energy’s MotionPower device for cars and light trucks could be installed at high traffic locations such as toll booths, traffic intersections, rest areas, travel plazas, border crossings, neighborhoods with traffic calming zones, and drive-thrus similar to the Burger King test site.

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.