A Sainsbury’s supermarket in the UK is testing a new way of harnessing electricity from their customer’s cars. Weight-sensitive plates have been embedded into the parking lot roadways, and as customers drive by, kinetic energy is gathered as the plates are pushed down.

From Popsci.com

“When a car drives by, plates are depressed and the motion is passed along hydraulics to a generator, which produces 30kw of energy an hour. If one parking lot can power cash registers, imagine packing roads with this technology and how much energy can be recollected from all the world’s drivers?”




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