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MIT’s SENSEable City Lab Brings Formula One Technology to Bicycles

Posted on December 17, 2009 by Dave-Banks

During the climate conference in Copenhagen on Tuesday, MIT’s SENSEable City Laboratory announced a new project for bicycles that uses an energy recovery technology similar to a program used in Formula One racing.
The project, called the Copenhagen Wheel, is a regenerative brake that captures kinetic energy created under braking and stores the power in batteries […] Continue reading →

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