Technically, the combustion engine in any hybrid vehicle is a range extender, but the term commonly refers to gasoline-fueled generators that are used to charge an electric vehicle’s battery pack but ...

It’s pretty obvious that electricity is the future for our cars. But as any EV owner now can tell you, it has some limitations. Range and charging times are their biggest limitations, but the Toyota ...

There is probably no better chronicler into the full depth of American ingenuity than YouTube. Here one finds not just computer models for all manner of esoteric combustion engine designs, but actual ...

Mainspring Energy has adapted its linear generators so they can run on hydrogen or ammonia fuel, on top of widely available fuels such as natural gas and biogas. “The generator has passed key tests to ...

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains has selected Mainspring Energy , manufacturer of innovative, fuel-flexible, power generators, for an award of $87 million ...

Antony Ingram April 30, 2014 Comment Now! The concept of range-extended vehicles--electric cars with a gasoline generator to extend their range--is an intriguing way of combining the benefits of both ...

A 3.3 MW rooftop PV array and 480 kW of linear generators are currently being used to cover 100% of the electricity needs of a logistics facility in California. The hybrid energy system is relying on ...

TULARE, Calif. and MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- California Bioenergy LLC (CalBio) and Mainspring Energy (Mainspring) today announced CalBio's purchase of an additional eight ...

Trees and forests are an incredibly important natural resource — not only for lumber and agricultural products, but also because they maintain a huge amount of biodiversity, stabilize their local ...