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The Next Electric Car?
The Zenn and its related power source from EEStor could the The Next Big Thing. Or not. It’s speculative but well worth watching. Does anyone have an opinion? Here’s a report:
ZENN making giant leaps with EEStor technology!
By Auto123.com,
Saturday, August 02, 2008
Topics: auto123.com, zenn, environment, news
Everyone knows that energy storage is still the Achilles’ heel of all electric vehicles. In its ongoing efforts to become the world’s foremost developer of zero-emissions vehicles capable, even, of highway driving, ZENN has just taken a giant step forward thanks to the new accumulators designed by EEStor, the company’s main partner.
With the new EEStor technology, the cityZENN will be a true highway car with an operating range of 400 kilometres capable of achieving 125 km/h. A zero-emissions cityZENN could be recharged in less than five minutes, and its operating costs would represent only 10% of those of a conventional internal combustion engine.
ZENN is currently working on a drive train that could replace the internal combustion engine of commercial vehicles in North America.
ZENN currently has exclusive rights to the EEStor technology in the following markets:
- All new vehicles weighing up to 3,000 lbs (excluding battery weight)
- All internal-combustion-engine cars converted to electricity
- All golf carts as well as small and medium utility vehicles
Photos: Matthieu Lambert
Tags: peak oil energy investments
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5 responses so far ↓
1 paultaut // Aug 2, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Wow, someone has finally paid attention to my posts regarding the use for the UltraCapacitor technology being employed by Zenn. Simply Amazing.
This works and bye,bye every other tech. Why? because they can retrofit existing cars. It would save trillions. It will also cost hundreds of thousands of jobs from gas gauges and valves to gasoline tanks and oil filters, etc.
Don’t wish for something if you can’t handle the consequences from the delivery of that wish.
2 eddel // Aug 6, 2008 at 3:52 pm
As a stockholder, can you gain admission to Zenn for a visit to their plant and interview with the CEO? If so, please do so and let us know how it looks from the visit. Canada is nice in September.
3 jimb // Aug 7, 2008 at 4:47 am
Zenn at least has products to show but the EEstor hype machine has a signal to noise ratio that put it in the “ignore” corner a long time ago. Even EnerDel and AltairNano have at least shown working packs in working vehicles with performance and cost numbers to back them up. EEstor has shown nothing but press releases with extremely grand claims.
4 LEH // Aug 19, 2008 at 2:26 pm
jimb is right, EEstor has a long history of big claims backed by nothing solid to date. Do a Google search of Zenn and EEstor and see how many product delivery deadlines EEstor has already missed. Not good. At some point Zenn customers’ patience will be exhausted and they’ll be clamoring to have their deposits returned.
5 Rich // Sep 27, 2008 at 12:19 am
Leh,
And that would be a great time to buy Zenn stock.
I to am disappointed in the fact that no information is forthcoming, but when I think about how overwhelmingly important and strategic this technology is, no wonder it is under wraps. This will be the biggest event of the century if they are successful. I am amased at how few people even know about it.
Feel fortunate and how you can use this tremendous opportunity to your advantage. GL
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