Posted on 09/21/2006 8:51:08 AM PDT by Malsua
The Innovation: A ceramic power source for electric cars that could blow away the combustion engine
The Disrupted: Oil companies and carmakers that don't climb aboard
Forget hybrids and hydrogen-powered vehicles. EEStor, a stealth company in Cedar Park, Texas, is working on an "energy storage" device that could finally give the internal combustion engine a run for its money -- and begin saving us from our oil addiction. "To call it a battery discredits it," says Ian Clifford, the CEO of Toronto-based electric car company Feel Good Cars, which plans to incorporate EEStor's technology in vehicles by 2008.
EEStor's device is not technically a battery because no chemicals are involved. In fact, it contains no hazardous materials whatsoever. Yet it acts like a battery in that it stores electricity. If it works as it's supposed to, it will charge up in five minutes and provide enough energy to drive 500 miles on about $9 worth of electricity. At today's gas prices, covering that distance can cost $60 or more; the EEStor device would power a car for the equivalent of about 45 cents a gallon.
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I think this is a great Idea. Capacitors instead of batteries. Of course, this company is holding its cards close to the chest, so who knows...may be BS.
At any rate, it's a promising technology. I'd much rather ramp up our domestic power grid than import more oil and enrich our enemies. I'm also for drilling everywhere, putting up windmills where it makes sense, solar where it makes sense, and a pebble bed reactor for every yard! Let those sheiks drink the stuff.
Our power grid would be a better investment, anyway.
Besides, nuclear can be made a cheap source of energy.
I want my own PBR...
It would be very nice if this works.
Show me ...
I'm making a car that runs on PBR...oh, that's not the same thing?
I really feel like the momentum is growing, and someone sooner or later is going to come up with a new technology that will work.
Can anyone figure out from the short article if this is a super capacitor?
Fans of old science fiction movies could have predicted that capcitators would be the key to the future.
Something like this, with a massive investment in Nuclear Electric Power Plants, would be sweet.
the hybrid folks have been looking at so-called "ultracaps" for years
so far nothing has beat batteries
if this is a game-changer these guys will be rich
then again anybody with a good word processing program and an internet address can issue a good press release these days
CBS can't.
Are they a public company..or are they looking for funds...I would be wary of these claims...Capacitors explode real good too...
Where's the part of the article that says they just need a few million dollars more to fund the necessary research and they're looking for investors?
sounds like a big tantalum cap...
Something to think about is that gasoline taxes support the development and sustainment of our nation's highways. If we move to electric cars, we might also need to tax highway travel by the mile to continue to sustain those roads.
Cordially,
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