New Energy Technologies, Inc. announced that engineers have successfully conducted the first-ever durability field-tests of the company’s prototyped MotionPower technology for generating electricity from the motion of cars and light trucks – a key step in optimizing New Energy’s MotionPower technology for commercial launch.

Durability testing was conducted at Burger King’s prominent franchise restaurant in the New York metro area in Hillside, NJ throughout the busy Labor Day weekend from Sept. 3-7.The Burger King franchise is owned and operated by Drew Paterno and Michael Wallstein.

“It would be great to generate clean electricity by mechanically capturing the kinetic energy of the 100,000-plus cars that drive through our Hillside store alone each year,” said Paterno. “If the MotionPower device works and does what we think it will do, we’d be interested in installing it in all our locations.”

New Energy’s MotionPower technology is designed to be installed in locations where hybrid, next-generation electrical, and conventional fuels-driven vehicles decelerate or stop, thus ensuring that vehicles are not ‘robbed’ of energy they would otherwise use to accelerate. Instead, MotionPower devices actually 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.

“We’ve had a favorable response to our MotionPower™technology from the marketplace and from those who generated electricity by driving their cars over our device. We’re keen to aggressively commercialize our technology and have designed each phase of our testing to help move us towards this goal,” explained Meetesh Patel, president and CEO of New Energy Technologies, Inc.

In addition to tests conducted at Burger King, engineers are undertaking additional durability testing of New Energy’s prototyped mechanical MotionPower system for cars and light trucks in the upcoming weeks at the Four Seasons Washington, DC and at the Holiday Inn Express Baltimore.

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.