New Energy Technologies, Inc. (announced successful completion of its first-ever MotionPower prototype energy harvester for heavy trucks and vehicles for installation at such locations as truck stops, weigh scales, commercial ports of entry, and shipping sites. This newly developed technology complements the company’s previously prototyped MotionPower system for cars and light trucks.

MotionPower technology is a roadway-based system that is designed to be installed in locations where vehicles decelerate or stop, thus ensuring that vehicles are not ‘robbed’ of energy they would otherwise use to accelerate.Instead, MotionPower devices assist vehicles in slowing down, and in the process of doing so, capture the vehicles’ motion energy before it is lost as brake heat, and creatively convert that energy into clean, ‘green’ electricity.

“I’m very excited to see the quick progress our engineering team has made with the successful completion of our first-generation MotionPower prototype designed to harvest the kinetic energy of long-haul trucks, buses, and other load-bearing heavy vehicles in order to generate clean electricity,” stated Meetesh Patel, president and CEO of New Energy Technologies, Inc.

“Engineers will now work towards optimizing our first-of-its-kind heavy-vehicle energy harvester for full-scale site implementation and testing, similar to the durability tests we’ve planned at key locations for our recently completed, first-generation MotionPower car and light truck energy harvester prototype.”

In recent weeks, New Energy has announced plans to initiate durability testing of its prototyped mechanical MotionPower system for cars and light trucks at locations such as the Four Seasons Washington, DC, Holiday Inn Express Baltimore, and Burger King in Hillside, NJ.