Usually, we try to keep away from the snore-fest tech out there, especially if it has anything to do with charging batteries. For one, I’m too dim to fully comprehend the mechanicals at play. For another, nobody really cares. But this, Fiends, is too awesome to skip over. Some enterprising scientist over a decade ago at Tufts University figured out how to utilize the energy that would otherwise be lost in a vehicle’s suspension to charge a set of batteries. Why wait to show off the discovery? Everybody was too busy partying and fretting over their VCR’s in 1999 to think about EVs. The power-generating shocks won’t provide enough juice to skip out on plugging your ‘lectric ride in or to forego your “range-extending” petrol mill on board, but it’s yet another small step toward viable EVs. Progress is good. [Source: TuftsJournal]