Ride Your Bike To Work: Supply The Power You Generated To Your Bus On The Way Home

Technology for generating electricity during a bike ride can charge a capacitor that can later be used at a kiosk to transfer that energy to a city's smart grid. The charge can then be used for hybrid and electric buses.

Dan Smith at Popsci.com reports:

"The idea is to put "ultracapacitors" into the bikes that will harness and store the kinetic energy generated by pedaling and braking. Once you return the bike to its rental kiosk, the energy stored in the bike will be transferred to the city's smart grid, and used to help power hybrid buses. The city doesn't simply expect you to generate free electricity for them. The bikes come equipped with handlebars that display how much energy has been generated over the course of your bike ride." See full article.