Instantly Double Your Electric Vehicle Range… Some Day….
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company just unveiled a new concept tire designed to extend EV range, making expensive long range batteries unnecessary.
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company just unveiled a new concept tire designed to extend EV range, making expensive long range batteries unnecessary.
24-year-old Anthony Mutua has created a device that turns your sneakers into cell phone chargers. The invention is being presented at Kenyan Science Technology and Innovation Week in Nairobi this week. “The shoe apparently has a very thin ‘crystal chip,’ perhaps a piezoelectric device, that generates power when the sole bends. … [continued]
Wind power conjures up images of giant turbines spinning gracefully out somewhere in the cornfields, but one day it could be as close as those wind chimes hanging from your porch. An undergraduate research group at Cornell University is developing a compact low-cost device for converting wind into electricity. Instead … [continued]
Scientists at the University of Bolton in the U.K. have come up with a new fiber that can harvest energy from the wind, rain, sun, and even body movements. The lightweight, flexible material could be used to make self-charging casings for laptops, phones, and other portable devices, and it could … [continued]
A team of researchers from UC Berkeley and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley Lab have discovered a new lead-free material that produces an electrical current when exposed to stress. The phenomenon, called piezoelectricity, sounds exotic but it could some day become as common as backyard grills. [social_buttons] Piezoelectricity … [continued]