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Kinetic Traction Systems is a business founded in November 2010, producing Flywheel energy storage systems for electric railways and grid storage. Kinetic...

in kinetic friction) has less traction than a non-sliding object (one in static friction). Direction of traction relative to some coordinate system - e...

electric vehicles. This method contrasts with conventional braking systems, where excess kinetic energy is converted to unwanted and wasted heat due to friction...

used to transform stored (chemical, solar, nuclear, kinetic, potential, etc.) energy into kinetic energy for propulsion purposes. This includes the utilization...

is derived from the wind's kinetic energy, then many options are available for using that mechanical energy: direct traction, conversion to electricity...

maximum force is known as traction. The force of friction is always exerted in a direction that opposes movement (for kinetic friction) or potential movement...

commonly use friction between two surfaces pressed together to convert the kinetic energy of the moving object into heat, though other methods of energy conversion...

electric traction systems provide regenerative braking that turns the train's kinetic energy back into electricity and returns it to the supply system to be...

or harvest, the vehicle's kinetic energy during braking and decelerating significantly more efficiently than electric systems; hydraulic hybrids can recover...

generator. Series-hybrid systems offer smoother acceleration by avoiding gear changes. Series-hybrids incorporate: Electric traction only – using only electric...

First-generation flywheel energy-storage systems use a large steel flywheel rotating on mechanical bearings. Newer systems use carbon-fiber composite rotors...

lightweight railcars that use flywheel energy storage for traction, allowing electric systems to operate without overhead wires or third rails. The company...

facilities at Preston, where locomotive traction equipment was dynamically tested. Among others, traction systems for the second series of trains for the...

recharging the onboard battery using energy recovered from the vehicle's kinetic motion which would otherwise have been wasted. In hybrid vehicles, the...

claims many petabyte-scale customers. Newer object storage systems have also gotten some traction, particularly around very large custom applications like...

vehicle is above about 7 MPH, the vehicle traction motor generator is used as a generator to convert the kinetic energy to electric power, and stores the...

(kinetic energy) by using the momentum of the train to drive the traction motors, generating electricity exactly like a regenerative braking system does...

allows kinetic energy to be recovered during braking to put power back on the line. Newer electric locomotives use AC motor-inverter drive systems that...

differential locks, but an electronic traction system (4ETS). If one or more wheels loses traction on a slippery surface, the system applies brief pulses of brake...

motive force for moving the vehicle. The flywheel captures the vehicle's kinetic energy when the brakes are used, and re-uses the energy for acceleration...