The US Patent and Trademark Office has announced Anthony Macaluso, the US-based entrepreneur and CEO of the newly-formed Hughes Tool Company has been granted a patent for an electric vehicle patent which claims to eliminate battery challenges and limitations.
Schematics for the Hughes Power Generated Platform. Credit: Hughes Tool Company
The new Hughes Power Generation Platform offers a solution that supplements existing battery fields, ultimately allowing for an increase in range of 400 to 1,000% and claims to eliminate the range and recharging issues that have led to slower consumer adoption of EV technology.
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The platform is a fully independent, scalable power-generating system that creates, then stores, new energy and provides it back to the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) battery field on demand, with the option for automation.
The San Diego-based company also claims the platform will alleviate a number of issues associated with long-haul driving and its adoption of electric vehicle fleets. The power generation may provide enough power leeway to allow for battery-powered vehicles to replace traditional combustion engines and hybrids within the trucking and hauling industries.
CEO and Founder Macaluso has delivered such inventions twice before, in the mobile and sports industries by offering solutions for some of the largest retailers globally.
He has been granted more than 60 patents resulting in billions of transactions and billions of dollars in revenue and significantly increasing shareholder value.
He said: “It is quite incredulous to me that many electric vehicle-related companies have gone public directly, either through a reverse merger or through a SPAC (Special Purpose Acquisition Company), led by some of the largest investment bankers like Goldman, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan and others. In almost every instance, these same ‘still on the drawing board companies’ project that they may have an early-stage product available -- from the OEM manufacturing of an EV to enhanced battery capabilities. These companies are all projecting their first product in 3-4 years from now, and all are commanding valuations in excess of $20 billion (USD).
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“After five years in stealth mode, and after being told too many times to count that this is impossible, our solution has been tested and is ready to truly change the approach to creating and providing power. And we have other patent-pending related solutions that will transform other industries beyond the EV space. My goal is to leave the world a better place and provide a truly greedless solution.”
He added: “If the wonderful Tesla engineers who I respect and are trying to make the world a better place under Mr. Musk’s vision and direction invented at the same rate as me over the last 12 years or so, they would have over 2.5 million patents versus the approximately 1,500* published.”
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