{"id":29125,"date":"2016-08-19T17:48:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T00:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/audis-new-suspension-system-converts-potholes-into-energy"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:23:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:23:04","slug":"audis-new-suspension-system-converts-potholes-into-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/audis-new-suspension-system-converts-potholes-into-energy","title":{"rendered":"Audi\u2019s New Suspension System Converts Potholes Into Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/audis-new-suspension-system-converts-potholes-into-energy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Audi has designed an active suspension system called eROT, which allows the electromechanical dampers to store the energy from bumps and potholes for use in the car. It also makes the ride far smoother, adapting the car to the road.<\/p>\n<p>The automotive industry\u2019s \u2018green revolution\u2019 hopes to make electric vehicles far more efficient. Every bit of force under the hood should be used to its maximum potential. That why you have concepts such as regenerative braking, which return some of the energy used in braking back into the system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/audi-announces-quarter-cars-will-electric-10-years\/\">But Audi<\/a> is looking at tapping another roadway staple: potholes. It has created a system called eROT, an active suspension system that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2016\/08\/11\/audi-regenerative-active-suspension\/\" target=\"_blank\">stores the energy<\/a> when a driver hit potholes, bumps, and other forces that induce kinetic energy on a car.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/futurism.com\/audis-new-suspension-system-converts-potholes-into-energy\/\">http:\/\/futurism.com\/audis-new-suspension-system-converts-potholes-into-energy\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audi has designed an active suspension system called eROT, which allows the electromechanical dampers to store the energy from bumps and potholes for use in the car. It also makes the ride far smoother, adapting the car to the road. The automotive industry\u2019s \u2018green revolution\u2019 hopes to make electric vehicles far more efficient. Every bit [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66516,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29125\/revisions\/66516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}