New Green Technologies.

The exciting thing about the auto industry is that places like Volkswagen Peoria and other auto makers are always coming up with something new.  Automotive companies are just like all other technologies and they change and grow everyday.  Kia Bethlehem is an example of this with their new UVO system, a direct competition force for Ford's Sync to compete with.  Port Charlotte Used Cars has some great deals, but buyers aren't allowed the choices you get with a new dealership when purchasing a car.  Luckily for all drivers, the following technologies may be coming to a neighborhood near you and will help the entire community to become more green!  Just by driving your car, these technologies will be able to make and store energy.

There is a chain of grocery stores in the United Kingdom that has installed specialized metal plates that will collect and store kinetic energy as you drive over them.  While the amounts of energy generated is not a lot by any means, when you add it all up, the grocery stores are able to take this power and use it to act as the supply source for the check out counters. 

Another company called New Energy Technologies has created speed bump like pads that will help slow cars down as they drive over them.  Plus, there are little flipper fins inside the bumps so that as you are pushing the fins down, energy is being created all the while helping to slow down your car and extending the life of your brake pads!  The system is called Motion Power Energy Harvesting, and it is currently being tested out at a Burger King drive thru and a Holiday Inn Express on the east coast.  The goal for this technology is to have it installed at stop lights and toll booths, anywhere that cars are frequently needing to slow down to a complete stop in long successions. 

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