Lock up your flywheels, folks, an American inventor is coming after them. Randy Moore of RK Transportation is working on an idea that replaces an engine's flywheel with a lightweight rotor with ...

Imagine how fast acceleration would be and how much lighter a motorcycle would be without a heavy flywheel. That’s the idea of American inventor Randy Moore of RK Transportation who has developed a ...

Tests on public roads has shown that Volvo's experimental kinetic flywheel hybrid system can improve car fuel efficiency by up to 25 percent. A car with the system and a four-cylinder turbocharged ...

Design a highly efficient, mobile electric flywheel capable of high-density energy storage that can supplement the power of internal combustion engines in hybrid electric vehicles during acceleration ...

About two years ago we told you that Volvo was about to commence testing of an innovative flywheel-based kinetic energy recovery system (KERS), not in motorsport but in the realm of production cars.

After extensive testing of its kinetic flywheel technology, Volvo has announced that the system can boost fuel economy by 25 percent. The company is now looking at integrating the Flywheel KERS system ...

Of all the ideas to save gas, this is one of the ones that was straightforward and held some of the most promise. Yet no one could seem to make it work. Until now. It's the flywheel. Volvo says it has ...

Ferrari, Renault, BMW, and McLaren have all used kinetic energy recovery systems (KERS) in F1 racing. Now Volvo wants to bring the technology to road cars. Volvo received a grant from the Swedish ...