Engine manufacturer Ricardo normally doesn't go seeking attention from the press. While it supplies engines to everyone from the biggest heavy equipment makers to McLaren sports cars, the U.K.-based ...

Kinetic energy recovery systems have often been proposed as a useful way to improve the efficiency of on-road vehicles, and even used to great effect in motorsports for added performance. [Tom Stanton ...

Remember the days when toy cars were simple and fun? Basic contraptions with four wheels, a tiny body on a plate, and endless fantasy plays in which we were everything from race drivers to cops to ...

Researchers at the Inner Mongolia University of Technology in China have developed a new lifecycle parameter that can reportedly help increase coordinated control and service life in flywheel energy ...

One Long Island company’s vision for the future of electric-grid power storage seeks to improve on decades-old technology known as flywheel energy to provide stable grid power and backup at a time ...

Flywheel energy storage works by accelerating a cylindrical assembly called a rotor (flywheel) to a very high speed and maintaining the energy in the system as rotational energy. The energy is ...

A flywheel is a very heavy wheel, formerly a large spoked wheel with a heavy metal rim but now more commonly made from a carbon-fiber composite material, with a smaller cylindrical form that is only ...

Flywheel Energy assumed control of a Rocky Mountain natural gas asset from Terra Energy Partners. Terra Energy Partners, operating under the name TEP Rocky Mountain LLC, managed a large gas asset in ...

It's no secret that the successful future of wind, solar and other renewable sources hinges on the development of cost effective energy storage systems. Of the technologies currently in play, ...

Indian researchers have assessed the full range of flywheel storage technologies and have presented a survey of different applications for uninterrupted power supply (UPS), transport, solar, wind, ...