[Titus-Maximus]

Another game changing battery technology that loads in 15 minutes and can drive your car and do your dry cleaning.

Anyone have any additional info?

[sinanju]

Does it run on cold fusion?

[sinanju]

Pixie dust?

[HiTech RedNeck]

I say NOO to YESS

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Blue Sky, Snake Oil, etc.

[lentulusgracchus]

Do you own stock in the company? A parcenary or partnership interest?

[prisoner6]

game changing battery technology that loads in 15 minutes and can drive your car and do your dry cleaning

Not only can it do all that, but it's also a delectable dessert topping!

prisoner6

[The Cajun]

Hell, the only thing missing from the above description of the magic battery is the old “But wait, if you order one Yess battery we’ll send you another absolutely free”, all you pay is shipping and handling ;^)

[smokingfrog]

Sounds a little too good to be true. Call me skeptical.

[TWohlford]

“Another game changing battery technology that loads in 15 minutes and can drive your car and do your dry cleaning.”

I’m a computer (IT) guy. After getting burned by decades of promised features in upcoming releases and new products show in conventions, I’ve decided that I won’t believe any promises until I see them.

This feels like a funding PR news story. One of hundreds every year.

[TWohlford]

http://cleantech.com/news/comment/reply/4254/3928

Fully electric will be the way of the future!
Submitted on April 24th, 2009 by Buck Thomas (not verified)

Gas + Electric hybrids are nothing more that a transitional technology, much like the beda video tape was to the VHS and ultimately CD industry.

ERRA Incorporated (recently featured in Cleantech’s Deal Flow Newsletter) already has placed a 100% battery powered prototype on the ground that has traveled 377 miles on a single charge of electricity costing roughly $3.00. This vehicle has superior appointments, is 50% lighter and 30% safer in crash tests than a Ford Taurus, can be charged overnight with your standard residential 110V outlet, or quick charged in under 10 minutes.

ERRA combines light weight, high strength carbon composite bodies with it’s own proprietary patented nickel hydrogen battery to acheive these unequaled results.

ERRA will build 100% electric vehicles ranging from sports cars, all the way to full sized transit buses. They will further deploy the infrastructure to recharge and support these vehicles.

This is far from a back yard project. ERRA’s Board looks like “Who’s Who” in American Business with most of them being large corporate leaders and West Point Graduates. ERRA is headed by the former Chairman of the Boston Edison Public Utility, Bernard Reznicek.

[TChad]

I think this is the same James Hogarth:

Write him a check or he'll shoot you.

[MtnMan101]

Voo Doo..... until I see some good ole fashion Ohm's Law !!

[Ramzi Al Kaboom]

After doing some checking around the web and at nasa ...since they mentioned satellites using this chemistry the technology itself is indeed proven. Initial design began in 1970 with first use aboard a Navy sat in 1977.That said I tend to be skeptical if this company has managed to shrink these cells to the size of a AAA battery for example. These cells(nasa current models) have a power density of roughly 75 watt hours per kilogram. A specific power of 200 to 220 watts per kilogram and are capable of 20,000 cycles more or less even when regularly discharged to 80 percent. Compare that to most batts that are only good for about 500 cycles when not discharged more than about 40 percent or so. Makes it easy to see why they are so popular for use in sats, but as for anything else we'll see.

[thackney]

Note: This is nothing like EESTOR.

This is taking a developed technology of a Nickel-Hydrogen Chemical Battery and using it in a different application, electric automotive.

It is nothing like trying to adapt Capacitor Design into economical energy storage like EESTOR is trying to do.