A secretive Texas startup company may be on the verge of a major production breakthrough though it is hard to tell since they are not saying much. The car company that wants to build their technology into autos is talking and they are excited. Imagine a battery powered car that you could plug in for five minutes of charging and then go on a 500 mile trip without recharging or filling up with gas! That is what EEStor is hoping to make a reality in the not very distant future through their “technologies for replacement of electrochemical batteries,” which they have gotten a patent from the US recently. Patent #7,033,406 could be the death knell for the combustion engines we have known and driven for the last 100 years.
Don’t bother to Google the company as they are being so quiet about this technology that they do not have a site. They have put out a press release awhile back but aside from that they have not done much talking. Instead automaker Ian Clifford, chief executive of Toronto-based ZENN Motor Co. is doing most of the talking about the potential for this battery breakthrough.
“It’s a paradigm shift,” said Clifford, “The Achilles’ heel to the electric car industry has been energy storage. By all rights, this would make internal combustion engines unnecessary.”
The deal with ZENN Motor and a $3 million investment by the venture capital group Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, which made big-payoff early bets on companies like Google Inc. and Amazon.com Inc., hint that EEStor may be on the edge of a breakthrough technology, a “game changer” as Clifford put it.
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Some are sceptical of the company’s claims but they do have VC fudning from highly respected Kleiner Perkins and those guys would not throw bad money at technology. Trust me they do very due diligence on things before they invest.
Now I wouldn’t mind being in line for one of ZENN Motor’s first cars that feature this technology. How about you?