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Ceramic Batteries - a new breakthru?
By MB-BigB | September 23, 2006
CNBC was talking about disruptive technolgies the other day, and they mentioned an article in Business 2.0 that described 11 new innovations that could disrupt entire industries. One of them was about EEStor, a company in Texas that is working on ceramic batteries that store electricity, charge up in 5 minutes, and delivery enough electricity to drive a hybrid or electric car 500 miles on about $9 worth of electricity. That works out to the equivalent of gasoline at $.45 per gallon. Supposedly these new batteries will provide enough to also power SUVs. EEStor is looking to have the technology “roadworthy” by 2008.
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January 16th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
It is a ceramic capacitor, not a battery
On the basis of 30 years in the ceramic capacitor business, and having read their “patents”, in my opinion, it is not real. It has technical, mathematical, and patent errors.
July 6th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
[...] spotted an article about Zenn Motors in the Calgary Herald that says that EEStor Inc, the maker of ultracapacitors that supposedly will make electromechanical batteries obsolete, is expected to release the results [...]