“EAS™” means Electric Assist System.  The Electric Assist System (patent pending) (that is, “EAS™”) is used to convert combustion engine vehicles to combined gasoline/electric hybrid vehicles.  EAS™ is an economic and environmental breakthrough of great proportion. 

EAS™ – Improves vehicle performance by

• Substantially improving fuel economy
• Through reduced fuel consumption, reducing emission of environmental pollutants, including “greenhouse gases”
• Extending the vehicle’s useful life by reducing engine wear
• Capturing normally wasted kinetic energy through power regeneration when the vehicle is braking, resulting in reduced brake wear

For example, in our Delivery Truck Prototype, NetGain converted a post-1995, gasoline engine, rear wheel drive, automatic transmission vehicle to a combined gasoline/electric hybrid vehicles.  Another example is NetGain’s Blazer Prototype.

EAS™ consists of an electric motor, batteries and a control system (patent pending) that provides electric power to the drive shaft SIMULTANEOUSLY with power from the gasoline engine in your vehicle.

With the objective of enhancing fuel economy (as well as pollution reduction), the EMIS™ regulates power from the batteries to the motor, strategically powering the electric motor to assist the internal combustion engine in accelerating the vehicle. 

EMIS™ refers to the Engine/Motor Interface System or “EMIS™”.  EMIS™ is a patent pending technology developed by NetGain Technologies, LLC that utilizes an electric motor configured into the drive train of a conventional vehicle to assist the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) by applying strategic amounts of electrical assist power when it is most beneficial to the fuel economy of the vehicle.

EMIS™ interfaces to a conventional vehicles on-board computer system to ascertain the current demands being requested of the internal combustion engine by the driver.  Based upon numerous parameters, EMIS™ instantaneously determines the amount of electrical assist power that can be applied to the drive train electric motor in order to seamlessly assist the internal combustion engine.

The electrical assist power is applied in a totally transparent manner and the driver is normally not even aware of the electrical assist. The system is so transparent, that there are no changes needed to the driver’s normal driving routine. The amount of additional power that can be supplied is limited by the size of the electric motor, the power capabilities of the motor controller, and the batteries that are installed.

Fuel efficiency gains are greatest when the vehicle operates in first and second gear, that is, when EAS™ does the most to assist the internal combustion engine.  EAS™ reduces dependency on the internal combustion engine during the engine’s worst fuel efficiency period by assisting with the electric motor’s torque.  During this period, the electric motor will materially reduce load on the internal combustion engine and transmission, thereby lowering fuel consumption (as well as emissions reduction).  Consequently, deployment of EAS™ results in better fuel economy (as well as emissions reduction), and reduced wear and tear on the engine and transmission.

In general, EAS™ generates fuel economy gains that depend upon the fuel efficiency of your existing combustion engine versus the efficiency of the electric motor.  The difference in their respective efficient use of energy is what gives rise to the fuel efficiency gains.  Typically, electric motors are more efficient than combustion engines.  However, some combustion engines are more efficient than other combustion engines.  For instance, a gasoline combustion engine is generally less efficient than a diesel combustion engine.  Diesel combustion engine vehicles will derive fuel efficiency gains upon conversion using EAS™.  However, in the context of a similar use of EAS™ in a gasoline combustion engine vehicle, EAS™ would be expected to generate higher fuel efficiency gains in the gasoline engine vehicle. 

Moreover, engines using E85 will also derive significant fuel efficiency gains in the same manner described, above.  

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