Electricity from tyres could keep electric vehicles running 10% longer
What’s a nanogenerator? It is, we are told, a device or technology that converts mechanical or thermal energy into electricity. The technology has already found its way into automotive and tyre applications, and now the University of Wisconsin-Madison reports that a group of its engineers have, together with a “collaborator from China”, developed a nanogenerator that could increase an electric vehicle’s mileage by around ten per cent.