M2E offers the potential to significantly improve the performance of hybrid and electric vehicles.

Hybrid vehicles rank among the fastest growing sectors in the automotive world and for good reason. Driving the demand are the issues we see on headlines everywhere: the skyrocketing price of gasoline, the universal need for higher fuel efficiency, a growing concern for the environment and a desire for energy independence.

Analysts predict that by 2008, buyers will have a choice of as many as 35 hybrids and that 1.2 million such vehicles will be sold in the U.S. market. Assuming current gas prices persist, they also predict that up to six percent of all cars sold in America will be hybrids.

The hybrid vehicle market is also extremely innovative, making the consideration and acceptance of new technology more likely that in more traditional “legacy” industries. In this context, M2E has much to offer in terms of enhancing a hybrid vehicle’s efficiency.

There are two ways M2E might be used to contribute to the increased efficiency of hybrid vehicles. The first would be to develop a permanent magnet generator design. The second would be to add a number of kinetic energy harvesting devices to various parts of the vehicle that feed additional energy into the battery.

A majority of electric vehicles already use permanent magnet generators. By adding the M2E rotary design, greater gains in efficiency can be realized. M2E promises to increase both hybrid and electric vehicle performance while at the same time helping to reduce size and weight.