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Top 10 cleantech promises to watch for in 2010

January 9, 2010 by Big Gav
with 1,945 views

Cleantech.com is looking forward at 2010 instead of back at 2009 and has a list of promised innovations to keep an eye on this year - Top 10 cleantech promises to watch for in 2010. Just because promises don’t happen in 2010 doesn’t mean they won’t happen ever. But, for what it’s worth, here are 10 of the most interesting developments... [read more]

Details of Dick Weir/EEStor interview leak emerge

August 8, 2009 by Tyler Hamilton
with 218 views

I have a story in today’s Toronto Star about the leak nearly three weeks ago of a 38-minute telephone interview with EEStor founder and CEO Dick Weir. As others in the blogosphere have speculated, the audio recording that appeared on Yahoo Video (apologies, but in the story I incorrectly say it was on YouTube) was in fact a recording of... [read more]

Is EEStor a game changer?

July 22, 2009 by Lou Grinzo
with 96 views

One of the favorite parlor games among energy geeks for some time has been trying to figure out just what EEStor is up to. EEStor is the Texas-based company that has been making some very tantalizing claims about their ultracapacitor-based electricity storage units that will eventually be used in EVs. (See the Wiki machine for more on... [read more]

30-plus minute interview with Dick Weir of EEStor

July 21, 2009 by Tyler Hamilton
with 249 views

Q&A with Dick Weir, CEO of Eestor Inc. @ Yahoo! Video Mr. Weir probably had no clue the person interviewing him would post this on the Internet, but it appeared just a few hours ago. Weir talks about the history of EEStor, how he hooked up with Ian Clifford at ZENN Motors, the relationship with Lockheed, and the status of EEStor’s... [read more]

Another chapter in EEStory

August 5, 2008 by Tyler Hamilton
with 267 views

A short story on EEStor appeared today on MIT's Technology Review site. A few thoughts to walk away with: 1) The company has certified that its equipment and procedures can make the materials it needs to go into high-volume production of its ceramic ultracapacitor. 2) It took longer than expected to get to this stage because EEStor... [read more]

EEStor update: Is there a materials engineer in the house?

July 29, 2008 by Tyler Hamilton
with 107 views

EEStor put out a press release just minutes ago talking about "Certification of Additional Key Production Milestones" and "Enhancement of Chemical Purity." According to the release, "These key certified production milestones of particle crystallization, size, purity and polarization are expected to assist EEStor in providing not only... [read more]

Mystery blogger offers insight into secretive EEStor

July 18, 2008 by Tyler Hamilton
with 329 views

There's no shortage of speculation about EEStor Inc., the Texas-based energy storage company that claims it will change the world with its super-dooper, disruptive, "this changes everything" ultracapactor. But one anonymous blogger has been digging around and is managing to piece together a decent -- although not necessarily accurate... [read more]

EEStor powered CityZENN targeted for fall 2009

March 28, 2008 by Tyler Hamilton
with 102 views

We can only hope, right? ZENN Motor Co. held its annual general meeting today and offered some more insight into when it expects product from Cedar Park, Texas-based EEStor and when it plans to come out with a highway-speed electric vehicle using EEStor's "game-changing" energy-storage technology. That date would be fall 2009, the... [read more]

ZENN gears up for jump to highway speed cars

February 19, 2008 by Tyler Hamilton
with 79 views

This is basically an FYI. Low-speed electric car maker ZENN Motor Co. released its first-quarter results last week and provided an update on plans to introduce a highway-speed vehicle based on EEStor's energy storage system. Here's what the company said: In anticipation of the EEStor technology being successfully commercialized, the... [read more]

Lead-acid versus EEStor

January 24, 2008 by Tyler Hamilton
with 187 views

Here are a couple of pieces that appeared recently in Technology Review: one relates to EEStor's recent announcement with Lockheed Martin and what it means for the company, while the other is a look at a new type of hybrid lead-acid battery with an integrated supercapacitor that claims to last four times longer than conventional lead-... [read more]

EEStor partners with Lockheed Martin; Topfer returns

January 9, 2008 by Tyler Hamilton
with 122 views

Well, well, well... finally some news on the EEStor front. The Cedar Park, Texas-based energy storage startup announced today is has signed an agreement with defense contractor Lockheed Martin. The agreement gives Lockheed "exclusive international rights" to "integrate and market Electrical Energy Storage Units (EESU) from EEStor Inc.... [read more]

EEStor should talk

November 1, 2007 by Tyler Hamilton
with 110 views

Is EEStor's ultracapacitor-based storage device for real? Will it meet its ambitious -- some would say unrealistic -- claims? And even if it does, can we realistically expect the product to just instantly change the market? After all, developing a game-changing technology is one thing, but the process of changing the game takes a lot of... [read more]