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'''EEstor''' is a company based in [[Cedar Park, Texas|Cedar Park, Texas, USA]]. It is a start up company pioneering a new energy storage technology. |
'''EEstor''' is a company based in [[Cedar Park, Texas|Cedar Park, Texas, USA]]. It is a start up company pioneering a new energy storage technology. |
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The company claims to have developed a superior type of [[supercapacitor]], using barium titanate coated with aluminum oxide and glass, to achieve a level of capacitance much higher than what is currently available in the market |
The company claims to have developed a superior type of [[supercapacitor]], using barium titanate coated with aluminum oxide and glass, to achieve a level of capacitance much higher than what is currently available in the market. |
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Using this technology the company claims that it can produce a high energy storage device that will rival chemical batteries. The company has started construction of new production facilities to bring their innovative product to market. |
Using this technology the company claims that it can produce a high energy storage device that will rival chemical batteries. The company has started construction of new production facilities to bring their innovative product to market. |
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EEstor is a company based in Cedar Park, Texas, USA. It is a start up company pioneering a new energy storage technology.
The company claims to have developed a superior type of supercapacitor, using barium titanate coated with aluminum oxide and glass, to achieve a level of capacitance much higher than what is currently available in the market.
Using this technology the company claims that it can produce a high energy storage device that will rival chemical batteries. The company has started construction of new production facilities to bring their innovative product to market.
Richard Weir is CEO and President, as well as the inventor named on their principle technology patent.
Equity funding for the company appears to come predominantly from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
If the technology works as claimed, a five-minute charge costing $9 would give the battery enough energy to drive a small car 500 miles.
Toronto, Canada-based Feel Good Cars, which operates Zenn Motor, said in the last week of April, 2007, that it had invested $2.5 million in EEStor.
Patents
US7033406 - Electrical-energy-storage unit (EESU) utilizing ceramic and integrated-circuit technologies for replacement of electrochemical batteries; Weir, et al. (April 25, 2006)