Game Changer in Sight!

[Tech_Esq]

We have been losing hope that the eeStor ultracap would ever arrive, but it appears that a car that charges in minutes and runs for hours, a wind turbine that stores its own energy, notebook computers and cellphones that charge in seconds and run for days could be months, not years, away.

W: Yea, if you take a look at what we're ... where we're going to be dominant. And the areas that we'll be dominant in. It really gets around anything dealing with energy storage which is about everybody. You take grid load leveling for example? . I'm working very hard and I got a patent ... 2 patents on grid load leveling. So you can take the grids of the world and put our batteries on it and charge 'em at night and dump 'em during the day. Well known fact you can put 45% more electricity on the grid and do nothing more than put our batteries on there.

Because they don't throttle those plants back at night. It's impossible. So all we're doing is getting? effective use of what we have. That amount? of electricity could be supplied electricity for the electric vehicle market, as it emerges. So we've got ... not only are we going to give the electric vehicle market a boost but also give them the energy to run it.

Wind and solar. We make wind and solar real.

If you take our batteries and those with wind and solar, what you do is amortize out the variations and make it highly stablized. You can make a wind farm look just like a coal fired plant with our batteries. And make it very cost effective. So that gives another way for North America to be really energy independent at very reasonable period of time on a reasonable investment.

PC and hand held computers.
We can take a battery for a PC in the same frame or a battery for a hand held or for a cell phone and give you 3 to 5 times more energy storage that will never degrade on you as you can charge in a second.

Transcript of a phone call with Dave Wier of Eestor

 

[Missourian]

IMO, this excerpt it especially brilliant :

"Well known fact you can put 45% more electricity on the grid and do nothing more than put our batteries on there.

Because they don't throttle those plants back at night. It's impossible. So all we're doing is getting effective use of what we have. "
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[Tech_Esq]

When these eesu's start coming on line, it is going to definitely change everything. It will probably take years for Eestor to scale to the level they need to be, but the possibilities are endless.

 

[Old Rocks]

Interesting. Seems to be something here. Zenn is said to be bringing out a car powered with the ultra-capacitor this fall. Guess we will see if this is for real.

An interesting aspect to this is the materials science involoved. A company here in Oregon has also made a breakthrough that fits hand and glove with this product. How about a solar cell 40% efficient, and created with ink jet technology? A manufacturing cost of $0.25 a watt or less.

Beaverton firm will produce cheaper quantum dots - OregonLive.com

 

[Old Rocks]

EEStor, the company behind the ultralight, ultra-efficient – and ultra secret – EEStor Electrical Energy Storage Units (EESU) that could change the electric car world, still isn't giving out much information about their product. But Ian Clifford, the CEO of Zenn Motors, is talking.

First, some numbers. The EESU could be a 52kwh pack that provides a 250-mile range and only weigh 280 pounds. ZENN now owns 10.7 percent of EEStor, up from 3.8 percent. Thanks to EEStor's recent permittivity announcements, ZENN has paid EEStor another $700,000.

Now, the intangibles. Clifford told GM-Volt.com that he sees the EESU prototypes "on a regular basis" and is waiting for a production prototype to be delivered by the end of this year. Clifford said that there is a "full production facility" at EEStor's pilot production plant. Possible in-vehicle application of the EESU could be around 600V, which Clifford says, "increases the drive efficiency, it makes the components somewhat smaller, and ultimately less expensive and obviously for mass commercialization." He couldn't say if he's actually seen one of the production EESU's, claiming non-disclosure agreements. He did promise, "absolutely," that demonstrations will take place in 2010. Read more at GM-Volt.com.

If nothing else, this is all good hype maintenance. Thanks to Gordon S. for the tip!

EESTor update from ZENN CEO Ian Clifford; demonstrations coming in 2010 — Autoblog Green