Both Burger King and McDonald’s recently announced efforts to lower energy consumption and increase green energy production at their franchises. A North Carolina McDonald’s announced the addition of an EV charging station and a Burger King in New Jersey has plans to test kinetic energy harnessing speed bumps at their location’s drive-thru lane.
Burger King is a test site for the New Energy Technologies's MotionPower prototype device that captures the kinetic energy from vehicles driving over the speed bumps. The company plans to expand their MotionPower system to roads and highways in the future.
“We’re eager to field test the device in a real world setting as part of our ongoing efforts to aggressively engineer, test, refine, and ultimately, commercially launch America’s first active roadway energy capture system of its kind,” explained Mr. Meetesh V. Patel, CEO of New Energy Technologies.
“More than 150,000 cars drive through our Hillside store alone each year, and I think it would be great to capture the wasted kinetic energy of these hundreds of thousands of cars to generate clean electricity,” stated Mr. Paterno, owner of the test Burger King.
Although the kinetic energy capture system will create green energy it will not eliminate the CO2 emissions from the factory farmed beef production nor emissions from vehicles idling in the drive thru lanes.
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