BETTER BATTERIES!!! WahOO!!! - Electric Car Forum and Electric Vehicle Community

FEUS · #1 (**permalink**) 01-09-2008, 11:14 AM

http://jalopnik.com/cars/alternative...try-202564.php

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Something covert's going on in Austin, TX that could have EV-car nuts dribbling Spirulina smoothies all over their hemp dickies in anticipation. In a shadowy corner of the city, a company called EEstor -- founded by ex-managers at Xerox PARC and IBM -- has reportedly developed a battery substitute that could spark a revolution in electric cars. Flush with seed money from tech angels Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the company's ceramics-based power storage unit, it's said, won't materially degrade, will charge in minutes, provide a range of 500 miles on $9 in electricity and can be used for a range of applications including full-speed EV cars and hybrids. Considering that feature set ostensibly solves every snafu holding electric cars back from broader adoption, a Toronto electric-car company is planning to have an EV based on the battery system roadworthy by 2008. Is the revolution nigh, or will the weak be ripped and torn away. Stay tuned.

hobbes28 · #2 (**permalink**) 01-10-2008, 10:43 AM

Bring 'em on. I just hope that this isn't one of those technologies that comes out with such great news and gets squashed somewhere down the line. I really like the part about them being cost competitive with the lead acid batteries. That means this half (as opposed to the other half) may actually be able to afford them. Sweeeet news!

Lectrol · #3 (**permalink**) 01-29-2008, 04:21 PM

52kw FOR $3200!! damn!! i hope this comes through

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEstor

FEUS · #4 (**permalink**) 01-30-2008, 06:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Lectrol

52kw FOR $3200!! damn!! i hope this comes through

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEstor

me too i havn't heard anything new in the last few weeks... but god i hope they do something for the electric car market

Lectrol · #5 (**permalink**) 01-30-2008, 10:18 PM

Now we all know the worst part about this breakthrough. If This technology is a real thing (fingers crossed). We will never get our hands on it ):

FEUS · #6 (**permalink**) 01-31-2008, 07:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Lectrol

Now we all know the worst part about this breakthrough. If This technology is a real thing (fingers crossed). We will never get our hands on it ):

why not? if ZAP will be using it... then i'd say we can easily get our hands on it...

Lectrol · #7 (**permalink**) 02-07-2008, 07:34 PM

I hope your right. I just am accustomed to great technology comming out and never getting to use it. (NI-MH, Zebra battery etc.)

lazzer408 · #8 (**permalink**) 04-21-2008, 11:49 PM

If it's worth a $hit you can bet you'll have to pay out the a$$ for it. Product cost used to be relevant to production cost + reasonable profit. Now look at things. It's all relevant to nothing but corporate greed.

Off Wiki... "a five-minute charge should give the capacitor sufficient energy to drive a small car 300 miles (480 km). However, standard household wiring is not capable of delivering the power required for this"

How about a second set of these "capasitors" charging at home that could be "dumped" into your vehicle and then recharged slowly over time from your house current? $$$ but it'll work.

Lectruck · #9 (**permalink**) 04-11-2009, 08:22 PM

Great EEstor will be out an any year now, Maybe not this one or the next either. The longer they delay in getting this technology working the more there competition will get there act together also.

acampbell3 · #10 (**permalink**) 05-18-2010, 11:26 AM

ZAP has a new lithium battery system that fits into the same space as the G-31 lead-acid.
New Lithium Battery and Management System Doubles Range of ZAP Electric Cars ZAP Global Blog

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