It’s a not a new battery or super-hot liquid salt. But while they are not the sexiest of innovative power solutions, there is much to love about flywheels. Yes, flywheels. The energy storage ...

A clever mechanical clutching/flywheel mechanism gets more energy out of train track vibrations than conventional piezoelectric approaches. Most transducers designed to harvest vibrational energy ...

Volvo wants to make your hybrid car obsolete. The Swedish manufacturer is working on a new type of hybrid system that uses a spinning flywheel rather than the batteries and motors employed by modern ...

Thanks to Saudi-based inventor Nasser Al Shawaf and Dutch engineering partner BPO, the world first calorie-burning car has been created in the FitCar PPV, a genuine pedal-powered vehicle. This ...

It’s an old technology for storing energy that’s finally getting an update, and it’s appearing everywhere from power plants to Formula One race cars, and will soon be hiding in your wheels, helping ...