In industries, people are so much used to traditional ways of doing things, that they hardly can speculate the enormous benefits that can be derived by slightly changing the method of doing the things, which is popularly termed as innovation. Those who can innovate, they create new milestones. Exactly the same thing has happened in Ecolution KWH, LLC (Ecolution), an e-mobility and power company from Naples. The company has received a U.S. patent for reusing wasted kinetic energy in refrigerated trailers used to distribute food and medicine. When combined with an electric or hydrogen-fueled truck, such as those being developed by Tesla and others, the Ecolution trailer accomplishes a total elimination of carbon emissions plaguing the multi-billion dollar global industry.
Ecolution’s ‘green perfect cycle’, MARS system, replaces the diesel gas tank and TRU Genset units typically used in ‘reefer’ trailers to refrigerate produce and medicine on the way to retail stores and outlets with swappable batteries. As a result, it can reduce the average weight of a refrigerated trailer by 1,200 pounds, increasing the hauling capacity of the trailer, while delivering greater battery life for the electric truck.
The key MARS-patented innovation is the use of alternators connected to disc brakes in the trailer, sending power through a converter to a battery storage unit for on-demand energy, all within the reefer trailer. The company now has four patents pending in Germany, Japan, China and South Korea. The invention, under research and development for five years, now goes into a prototype in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia.
