EEStor re-emerges
seanseamour on January 13 2008 at 10:02 am | Filed under: EEStor
EEStor is a small private Texas company known primarily for being one of the most secretive players in the energy storage development community. If I said energy storage versus battery it is beacuse of the nature of this company’ product development which has claimed will rereplace the battery. EEStor has been working on a new method for making ultracapacitors, which are battery-like devices that if successful, would enable a plug-in vehicle such as Canada’ Zenn that had been counting on this technology for which they hold exclusive rights for the automotive sector, to be recharged in the same amount of time it takes to pump a tank of fuel and drive 300 miles (500km) on that one charge. The deal with ZENN Motor and a $3 million investment by the venture capital group Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which made big-payoff early bets on companies like Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., provided creedance that EEStor might be on the edge of a breakthrough technology (more…)
Update [~Jan~~15~]
AFS Trinty unveils 150mpg (1.5l/100km) extreme hybrid SUV
An interesting application of ultra capacitors explained and applied in the AFS Trinity Power system presented in Detroit, considering similar draws in a marine environment such as the high battery drain of such applications as electric winches, windlass and starter motors, it appears that untracapacitators could be ideal recipients of solar, wind and regenerative sailing sources to meet such punctual needs.
