REPS patented know-how converts car visitors into electrical vitality. In 6 months since first it has generated over 6,700 kWh of electrical energy from actual visitors circumstances.
Each day, monumental quantities of vitality are misplaced via movement, stress, and vibration. On roads, that loss is fixed, predictable, and concentrated in the identical locations over and over: entrances, exits, curves, speed-limited zones, loading areas, and any level the place heavy autos naturally decelerate. REPS was constructed to recuperate that wasted mechanical vitality and convert it into clear electrical energy at scale, utilizing infrastructure that already exists.
As we speak, REPS introduced a $23.6M fairness financing spherical to scale its Street Power Manufacturing System, a patented “highway energy plant” that converts car visitors into electrical vitality.
What REPS is constructing
REPS stands for Street Power Manufacturing System. Its core product is a patented highway energy plant that installs instantly into present highway infrastructure and harvests vitality from vehicles and vehicles driving over it, with out disrupting visitors stream or logistics operations.
The know-how is especially efficient the place autos naturally decelerate or brake, or the place slopes create extra power. REPS is initially focusing on ports, logistics hubs, cities, industrial websites, and different high-traffic infrastructure operators that need to scale back vitality prices whereas bettering sustainability.
“Roads are all over the place. Site visitors is all over the place. What was beforehand wasted vitality can now be remodeled into clear electrical energy via REPS,” stated Alfons Huber, Founder and CEO of REPS.
REPS says its converter delivers 254x greater effectivity than the next-best various at the moment available on the market, and in contrast to weather-dependent renewables, the system operates independently of time of day and climate circumstances.
Why this issues
Most renewable vitality has targeted on producing new energy via photo voltaic and wind. REPS takes a unique method by recovering vitality that’s already being wasted. The corporate’s first utility is roads, the place the vitality misplaced via visitors alone might theoretically cowl round 5% of worldwide electrical energy demand.
The broader alternative sits inside a class known as vitality harvesting, changing misplaced mechanical impulses into usable electrical energy. REPS believes the explanation vitality harvesting hasn’t turn out to be a serious power within the vitality transition is simple: present mechanical converters have traditionally failed on effectivity and sturdiness, which makes the economics disintegrate. REPS needed to reinvent the vitality converter itself to unlock a system that may function underneath heavy visitors circumstances for greater than 20 years and amortize inside years.
Proof within the discipline
The primary business REPS system has been working on the Port of Hamburg since November 2025. Since then, greater than 115,000 vehicles have crossed the system, producing over 6,700 kWh of electrical energy from actual visitors circumstances.
The Hamburg deployment has translated into robust worldwide demand. Following the launch, the corporate is engaged with over 90 events from the port trade alone, spanning Europe, the Center East, Asia, and North America, and it says curiosity has now expanded past ports to logistics hubs and cities.
REPS additionally shared inside projections for what scale might seem like. A rollout of round 230 methods throughout the Port of Hamburg’s public roads, excluding terminals, might generate roughly 10 GWh of electrical energy per 12 months, sufficient to energy round 2,800 households, and offset roughly 9.81% of the CO₂ emissions brought on by port visitors. The return on funding in that state of affairs can be beneath 4 years.
On a metropolis scale, the corporate estimates that deploying round 64,000 methods in a metropolis the scale of Dubai might recuperate roughly 3.2 TWh of electrical energy yearly, equal to about 10.8% of the town’s complete vitality consumption at this time.
Justin Karnbach, CEO of Hamburger Container Service GmbH, stated ” The set up at our facility demonstrates the potential of REPS: the place autos should brake anyway, clear vitality is recovered and can be utilized instantly the place we’d like it. With none interference with visitors and with out extra area.”
Jens Maier, CEO HPA and President of the Worldwide Affiliation of Ports and Harbors, added: “We will’t wait to see REPS in motion – not simply within the Port of Hamburg, however all through the town and much past, everywhere in the world. The Port of Hamburg goals to attain local weather neutrality by 2040. HPA actively helps this ambition by implementing modern applied sciences. REPS is a future-orientated know-how that generates electrical energy from beforehand unused vitality sources, making a big contribution towards attaining local weather neutrality. With its excessive quantity of truck actions and its position as a central logistics hub, the Port of Hamburg affords preferrred circumstances to check applied sciences like REPS underneath real-world circumstances.”
The origin story
REPS was based after Alfons Huber dropped out of his physics diploma and spent 6.5 years creating the know-how whereas defending his inventor rights in opposition to two universities. That work finally led to what REPS describes because the world’s first operational highway energy plant, now working on the Port of Hamburg.
“We spent six years creating the know-how. Now the scaling section begins. The robust demand from ports and logistics operators worldwide confirms the necessity for our resolution, and with this financing spherical we will now scale on the pace required by the vitality transition,” added Alfons Huber.
What’s subsequent
Long term, REPS sees roads as the primary proof level for a broader energy-harvesting platform. The ambition is to show high-traffic infrastructure into decentralized energy belongings, capturing vitality that’s already being wasted and making it economically significant at scale wherever excessive lots transfer at excessive frequency.
Elisabeth Zehetner, State Secretary for Power, Startups and Tourism, stated “Begin-ups are now not a facet subject, they’re the innovation lab of our economic system. That is the place applied sciences like REPS from Austria are created. REPS is innovation made in Austria and showcases what our founders are able to: they don’t simply make small changes; they rework whole methods. A highway turns into an influence plant, and present infrastructure turns into a constructing block for a sustainable future. Our position in politics is obvious: we should be sure that start-ups discover the best framework circumstances in Austria. With the Begin-up Umbrella Fund, we purpose to be sure that innovation is financed, developed, and scaled right here in Austria and Europe as a substitute of ultimately returning to us as an import from the U.S. or Asia”
