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2021
Automotive/​Transportation

Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Battery Pack and Methods to Charge Fast

[Problem this design idea solves...]

The amount of time to presently charge a battery electric vehicle (EV) at home is numerous hours. Using a public, high-powered, fast charger takes much more time compared to filling up the tank with gasoline or diesel. For example,

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Jack Nguyen
San Clemente, United States
Votes: 1
Views: 1757
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 21, 2021

A Significant Cleaner and Lighter Internal Combustion Engine

An Alternative Crank Engine

This product innovation relates to the internal combustion engine and proposes a significant step forward in improving performance, fuel economy and emissions by changing the thermodynamic cycle of heat transfer into useful work whilst retaining all existing technological infrastructure and costs.

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Colin Miller
Ormskirk, United Kingdom
Votes: 0
Views: 1680
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 19, 2021

SERS-Suspension Energy Recovery System

The benefits of using Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS) in braking is already evident from motorsports and production hybrid-electric vehicles. Another area that has a high potential for KERS implementation is the suspension system.

SERS is a suspension energy recovery system that employs a patented reciprocation technique to increase the input frequency to a linear generator,

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Aditya Deshpande
Hubballi, India
Votes: 0
Views: 3504
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 18, 2021

Turbocharged Zhou Engine

This idea comes from our web article “Turbocharged Zhou Engine” (), and our invention PCT/CA2014050106 (Japan granted JP6574447, and patent-pending in other countries). So we are working on it.

This invention, Zhou Engine, is an IC engine and also a combustor.

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Jing Yuan Zhou
Richmond, Canada
Votes: 1
Views: 1256
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 18, 2021

The 3T

Requirements for the 3T

As a design approach we used the axiom of, "make something you would want to use" and balanced that against existing technologies with strong performance so that a realistically functional and dependable device could be made.

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Gavin Greaves
Cairns, Australia
Votes: 2
Views: 1409
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 17, 2021

Urban High Mobility System

The proposed urban mobility system will be composed of:

Air modules: Multicopters having propulsion pods each one with one or two electric motors driving a single or multibladed rotors, equipped with battery or fuel cell power packs, and control unities capable of flying in autonomous, programmable, or fly by wire control modes.

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Francisco Leme Galvao
S. Jose Dos Campos, Brazil
Votes: 6
Views: 1860
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 16, 2021

Rail Autonomous Inspection Vehicle (RAIV)

One of the central maintenance regimes for railway systems is track maintenance work. The track maintenance regime is comprehensive, including preventive and predictive maintenance. Nevertheless, the number of independently created and built track inspection vehicles is limited to the railway operator only.

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Azman Senin
Jalan 7/91 Taman Shameli Perkasa, Malaysia
Votes: 0
Views: 2228
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 16, 2021

Inductrack Cars and Inductrack for Roads

The original Inductrack concept (invented for trains by Richard F Post at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) is described in Wikipedia thus:

“…a passive, fail-safe electrodynamic magnetic levitation system, using only unpowered loops of wire in the track and permanent magnets (arranged into Halbach arrays) on the vehicle to achieve magnetic levitation.

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David Kessler
London, United Kingdom
Votes: 0
Views: 2766
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 14, 2021

MINI Spider Car Cover

A Brief Description:

This is the 3rd Stage of device development since 2011 and it is “Automatically Car Cover (Changeable plastic (LLDPE) film) device by Mobile Bluetooth (MINI Spider Cover)”, (Registered Patent No.: 2011/ 079 (Jebel Ali Free Zone (Ministry of Economy)\2011))

Description: It is a Car Cover (Changeable plastic (LLDPE) film) to cover the car automatically.

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Khaled Elnems
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Votes: 2
Views: 2480
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 14, 2021

Electric Vehicle - Dual Charging

TOPIC: ELECTRIC CARS THAT COULD OPERATE FOR A LONGER TIME AWAY FROM CIVILIZATION AND ELECTRIC SUPPLY

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EXTRACT: Electric vehicles have lesser travel range than fossil fuel vehicles. This limits electric vehicles to the vicinity of electric charging facilities. It also limits their viability, and sales, in such countries which do not have an extensive electric supply network.

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Sachchidanand Dhar
Virar West, Palghar, India
Votes: 0
Views: 1455
Automotive/​Transportation
Jun 13, 2021

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