Red Dot Award winner, Turn the Energy generates electricity from mechanical energy

A well deserved Red Dot Award indeed, the “Turn the Energy” design by designers Han Ji An, Kuang Yuxiang, Niu Zhenbo, Chen Xinying and Ma Chao sure steals the limelight. A tweak to the normal disk brake, the design enables the rotating brake disks of an electric car to generate energy by converting the mechanical energy into electrical energy. The system uses the rotor of the brake disks by cutting its magnetic lines of force to generate energy. The built-in coil rotor is turned every time the car moves. The armature of the generator is used to cut the magnetic lines of force. This energy can then be used to transform all the mechanical energy from the brakes into electrical energy which can then be used to power up the headlamps, the air-conditioning, the sound systems and the rest of an electric car’s devices.

This development sure will help electric vehicles increase their efficiency too!
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