Silicon Valley Redneck thinks Austin’s mysterious electric energy breakthrough company, EEStor, doesn’t smell like roses. "Snake-oil," he calls it, marshalling some numbers based on the firm’s very few pronouncements, to show why. The recent, unexplained departure of Mort Topfer, the former Dell vice-chairman from EEStor’s board, suggests SVR could be onto something. That their Web domain is for rent/sale is also not encouraging.
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Rather a pity – it was nice to hope that this is true…
Rather a pity – it was nice to hope that this is true…
It may be that, as SVR shows at the link, that EEStor’s battery breakthrough is true–but only for very small and rather slow cars.
It may be that, as SVR shows at the link, that EEStor’s battery breakthrough is true–but only for very small and rather slow cars.