Regenerative Shocks

[Mike]

Now that this idea is in front of me, why didn't we think of this earlier? Seems simpler than regenerative braking.

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[BLINGMW]

I was just reading about that, kinda cool

I remember reading about active shocks before (I think Bose was working on them?), and I guess this seems like an obvious thing if you already have that going. So I'm guessing it's been thought of before, but I bet the cost of the system will be prohibitive for a street car for a long time. And I wonder how rough of a road you have to be on to get 10% back.

Regenerative braking is also quite a bit simpler....

Maybe they should allow these for the '09 F1 too? Let them work on them.

[PDenbigh]

It's not on the scale of MIT, but a team at the JMU AFV Lab is experimenting with harnessing energy from shocks via the electromagnetic method. It's been done before but I thought some of the JMU folks here might enjoy known that your school is doing some cool stuff too ;-)

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[Mike]

Regenerative braking is also quite a bit simpler....

Really? Now I was only a CS major so I didn't take all the engineering classes you guys took, but I always thought electromagnetic stuff was fairly simple.