New Energy's First-Ever Device for Generating Electricity from Motion of Heavy Vehicles Successfully Prototyped

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BURTONSVILLE, Md.--New Energy Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: NENE), a next-generation alternative and renewable energy developer, today announced successful completion of its first-ever MotionPower^TM 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 Mr. Meetesh V. Patel, Esq., 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.

MotionPower™ Devices:

Generating Clean Electricity from Cars, Trucks, Heavy Vehicles

New Energy’s previously developed car and light truck energy harvester has been designed and prototyped as an ultra-low profile, modular device which can be easily customized to varying lengths based on site requirements.

Designed as a roadway-based system for installation where vehicles are required to decelerate or stop, MotionPower™ technology assists vehicles in slowing down, and in the process of doing so, captures the slowing vehicles’ motion (kinetic) energy before it is lost as brake heat, and creatively converts that energy into clean, ‘green’ electricity.

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, parking sites similar to the tests sites at the Four Seasons Washington, DC and Holiday Inn Express® locations, and drive-thrus such as the recently announced Burger King® test site.

New Energy’s brand new MotionPower™ energy harvester for long-haul trucks and heavy vehicles has been developed as a fully functional, small scale prototype which makes use of innovative fluid-driven systems, thus eliminating most mechanical parts – an important feature designed to minimize mechanical wear and reduce future maintenance costs.

Among key features of the MotionPower™ fluid-based energy harvester are the following:

• Large energy transfer from vehicles, which helps generate maximum electricity;
• Smooth energy transfer to ensure that the vehicle, driver, cargo, and passengers remain undisturbed when engaging the system;
• Optimal performance for a range of large vehicle sizes traveling at variable speeds;
• Flexibility of installation for both above-grade and in-road (embedded) applications;
• Scalable device which can be lengthened or shortened to meet installation requirements for each site;
• Limited number of moving or mechanical parts for ease of manufacturing, greater operating reliability, and lower maintenance and production costs;
• Unobstructed passage of small vehicles, bicyclists, and pedestrians over the device; and
• Unobtrusive visual impact.

New Energy’s MotionPower™ Devices:

Practical, ‘Green’ Energy Harvesters for America’s Roadways

MotionPower^TM devices are engineered as a practical and useful ‘green’ 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.

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 use this lost energy to generate electricity.

MotionPower™ devices make use of the energy wasted by these millions of cars, trucks, and heavy vehicles when they slow down or come to a full stop countless times throughout the day, and convert this otherwise wasted energy into valuable, clean electricity.

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.

To-date, New Energy has filed nine new patent applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in order protect novel features of its MotionPower™ technology for generating electricity from the kinetic energy of moving vehicles.

About New Energy Technologies, Inc.

New Energy Technologies, Inc., together with its wholly owned subsidiaries, is a developer of next generation alternative and renewable energy technologies. Among the Company’s technologies under development are:

• MotionPower™ roadway systems for generating electricity by capturing the kinetic energy produced by moving vehicles. An estimated 250 million registered vehicles drive more than 6 billion miles on America’s roadways, every day; and
• SolarWindow™ technologies which enable transparent glass windows to generate electricity by coating their glass surfaces with the world’s smallest known solar cells. These solar coatings are less than 1/10th the thickness of ‘thin’ films and make use of the world’s smallest functional solar cells, shown to successfully produce electricity in a recently published peer-reviewed study in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy of the American Institute of Physics.

Through established relationships with universities, research institutions, and commercial partners, we strive to identify technologies and business opportunities on the leading edge of renewable energy innovation. Unique to our business model is the use of established research infrastructure owned by the various institutions we deal with, saving us significant capital which would otherwise be required for such costs as land and building acquisition, equipment and capital equipment purchases, and other start up expenses. As a result, we are able to benefit from leading edge research while employing significantly less capital than conventional organizations.

Introducing MotionPower™
Harnessing the Energy Beneath Your Tires

As you read this sentence, enough energy is being produced to light up half a million homes. But sadly, that energy is wasted because there is no technology to capture it.

The energy I’m referring to is the kinetic energy produced by the 250 million vehicles traveling U.S. roads every day. And New Energy Technologies Inc. is developing an exciting new technology that will help capture a portion of that valuable energy.

Our technology is similar to what is used to power hybrid cars, but instead of being installed in each vehicle, it’s installed in the roadways, capturing the friction energy that is otherwise dissipated as heat.

This idea no doubt raises questions in your mind: How does it work? How much energy will it actually capture? Won’t the energy used in capture offset the energy produced? And of course, is such an idea really possible in our lifetime?

You’ll be astonished to learn just how real this technology is, and how soon you might be able to see it used to light up your neighborhood, even your home.

Read on to discover how New Energy Technologies Inc. is contributing to the future of energy today with a reliable, efficient very real solution to our energy needs.

MotionPower™ Kinetic Technology is Simple and Efficient

For the first time ever, we stand to generate valuable electricity merely by driving our cars over simple energy-capturing devices.

With nearly 250 million cars traversing America’s roadways, we’re poised to capitalize on an untapped commercial opportunity, while delivering timely cost savings and long-term environmental benefits to energy consumers.

New Energy engineers have successfully engineered and built the Company’s first prototype, and are now actively working to further optimize the efficiency of the MotionPower™ device in preparation for installations at high traffic locations such as exit ramps, toll booths, traffic intersections, rest areas, travel plazas, restaurant and bank drive-thrus, border crossings, and neighborhoods with traffic calming zones.

Importantly, the MotionPower™ device has been engineered to ensure that it can be easily manufactured, and is resistant to damage from vehicles, road debris or weather.

Additionally, the energy-capture prototype device is straightforward to install and boasts a modular design, allowing installers to conveniently shorten or lengthen the MotionPower™ energy harvester in order to customize the system based on site conditions while maximizing power output.

Engineers developing the MotionPower™ technology have worked – and continue to work – to ensure that the system is able to:

• Adapt to the unique characteristics of different vehicles in order to optimize the amount of energy captured;
   

• Reduce or avoid potentially undesirable effects on safety, comfort ofvehicle occupants, and the stability of cargo; and
   

• Adaptively monitor or regulate the speed or acceleration (or deceleration) of vehicles

New Energy has filed numerous patents with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for the protection of intellectual property associated with using the motion of vehicles to generate electricity, the fastest growing form of end-use energy in the world.

America is the world’s largest consumer of electricity, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, with nearly 70% of the nation’s electricity generated by coal and natural gas. The environmental impact and rising costs of these non-renewable fuels, along with the potential doubling of global electricity consumption in the coming years, clearly illustrate the urgent need for more creative, sustainable methods for generating electrical power.