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TECHNO-NEWS * USA - Mileage-Increasing Transportation Technology Boosts MPG in hybrids and range in electric vehicles by 20 to 70 percent
Tufts University Grants Exclusive Commercial Rights to Electric Truck, LLC, for
Greenwich,Conn. & BOSTON,USA -MarketWatch -Nov 21, 2008: -- Electric Truck, LLC (ET) and Tufts University's Office for Technology Licensing and Industry Collaboration (OTL&IC) today announced that ET has exclusively optioned commercial rights to a technology that can recharge the batteries of any hybrid electric and electric-powered vehicle while it is driven... The Tufts-developed technology could increase by 20 to 70 percent the miles per gallon or total driving range performance of vehicles like the Honda Civic, Ford Escape, and Toyota Prius hybrids and the Tesla Motors and Phoenix Motorcars electric vehicles... This cost-effective invention harnesses the movement of the vehicle to generate electricity that is used to recharge the battery continually while the vehicle is in motion... Since the technology actively uses the weight of a vehicle for energy recovery, it could help speed the expansion of the hybrid and battery electric vehicle market from cars to vehicles of greater size, weight and payloads, such as SUVs, pickup and delivery trucks, mail trucks, school and city buses and other light and medium duty trucks. Trucks are a large market segment based on commercial need and also represent some of the biggest sources of emissions...
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