Although true flywheel-based kinetic energy recovery systems (KERS) never quite caught on in racing or in production hybrids, a company in Israel has been working on putting the technology to use ...

Volvo has received a grant of 6.57 million Swedish kronor ($1.05 million U.S. at today’s exchange rate) from Swedish Energy Agency to jointly develop and test a flywheel kinetic energy recovery system ...

Beacon Power Corp. has successfully completed all critical performance tests on the Smart Energy 25 flywheel, and is moving forward to order the remaining materials necessary to build its first 10 ...