High utility rates and recurring reliability issues, particularly in urban areas, are driving the need for more effective and efficient power quality innovations for equipment such as data servers and ...

Earlier this month, Kinetic Traction Systems, Inc. (KTSi) announced it had acquired the rail assets of Pentadyne Power, and set up shop targeting the use of flywheel technology in the rail market. To ...

Engineers at Kinetic Traction Systems Inc. in Chatsworth, Calif., (www.kinetictraction.com) are developing flywheels to store energy recouped from braking Engineers at Kinetic Traction Systems Inc. in ...

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A Porsche 911 that features a hybrid drive developed specifically for racing is to make its debut at the Geneva Motor Show in March. In the 911 GT3 R Hybrid the front wheels will be driven by two ...

Lock up your flywheels, folks, an American inventor is coming after them. Randy Moore of RK Transportation is working on an idea that replaces an engine's flywheel with a lightweight rotor with ...

Tests on public roads has shown that Volvo's experimental kinetic flywheel hybrid system can improve car fuel efficiency by up to 25 percent. A car with the system and a four-cylinder turbocharged ...