Comments on: Eestor to prove Chevy Volt obsolete before launch?

By: Name (required)

Name (required) — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:32:57 +0000

what a load of…..

By: Eaj

Eaj — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:51:17 +0000

It sounds easy to buy Zenn right now, but if EEstor batteries are the real thing then Zenn will become a major player in the automobile industry. Maybe Zenn will buy GM!

http://www.eestorbatteries.com

By: wb

wb — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:06:16 +0000

if eestor is legit, gm will make a very aggressive bid to buy zenn out completely in order to get zenn’s piece of eestor. they know that they can’t buy out lockheed or kliener, but zenn they could get.

gm could still liscense the technology out to other oems, ala toyata with their hybrid system, but they wouldn’t do it right away, rather they would want 3-5 years after they introduced their own line of eesu equipped vehicles.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:43:26 +0000

You guys are confusing volts with current in the charge-time comments. The charge will tranfer from the “toilet tank” at under 200V. The current will be Large, so thick conduits will be needed. 10000A would need around 3/4 inch dia copper cable or shuntbars for example.

By: Tom Lee

Tom Lee — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:08:51 +0000

From what I’ve read ZENN only has world wide rights to use the EESU in a specific class of cars. I think it’s determined by weight or maybe by maximum speed.

By: JonP

JonP — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:35:47 +0000

Matt,

Every article you write about the Volt is all the same: Here’s why the Volt sucks blah, blah, blah……
To say your reporting/opinionizing is not radically biased is hysterical. Bottom line is this, GM will be the first large OEM to market with a Eletric propulsed vehicle. If they want to run it off batteries(that exsist), ultracaps(which as of right now are farie tales), hydrogen(which you can’t get), or pig crap who cares. They will have the production facilities in place, ramped up to large scale, and have years of experience. The part your missing is the Volt isn’t about the Lithium batteries it’s about the eflex powertrain design. I was in New york at the Voltnation event and talked to Jon Launeker myself and asked him will the Volt ver1.0 be designed to have upgradebale batteries so the consumer can upgrade as the battery tech gets better. His answer was yes, as long as the new batteries can be shaped in the same physical dimensions as the origional ones. He also stated that GM wasn’t saying that it would be because of all the talk about supercaps and that eventually they might use a dual-stage li-ion – supercap battery which would obviously not fit inside the origional physical battery dimensions.

ps if you don’t know who Jon Launaker is you shouldn’t of wrote this article.

By: Sal

Sal — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:20:55 +0000

Is anyone privy as to who the third-party testers are? Southwest Research Institute verified the Barium Titanate purity a year and a half ago, but I can find no indication who is overseeing this next testing phase.

By: Murphy

Murphy — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:18:49 +0000

Whether or not the eestor ultra capacitor becomes a reality or over inflated hype remains to be seen.

As far as charing the capacitor in minutes, I belive the idea is to install the electrical equivilant of a toilet tank into your home grid. You need a second untracap that trickle charges over time off normal home power (something like 4-6 hours). When you want to charge your car, you “flush” your home-based ultracap at much higher voltages into your car.

As far as I know there is alot of research going into magnetic induction being used to charge EVs at high voltage as opposed to a direct connection in order to avoid the problem of HV electric arcs.

By: rank

rank — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:20:20 +0000

Bob’s comment seems he most plausible.
If these capateries can be mass produced, here will be no general technical or patent infringement invoked for other manufactures applying a similar , well known concept technology.
Any existing hybrid, phev or bev will simply fit cappateries as the numerous manufactures come on stream.
The technology, while substantial is unlikely to meet the exaggerated claims of the manufacturer.

By: bob genetalius

bob genetalius — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:08:15 +0000

The only thing EEStor is going to prove is that they are fraudulently seeking funding like so many other “tech” companies. See http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/4574
for example for data on individual barium titanate crystals. It’s too bad the investment community is being drained by so many worthless parasites.