Mystery start-up EEStor of Austin is getting a lot of publicity–and got $2.5 million in seed money from venture capitalists last month–despite refusing interviews. Their revolutionary promise is to develop "technologies for (the) replacement of electrochemical batteries," via "ultracapacitors." Some experts at the University of Texas Center for Electromechanics are skeptical. But ZENN Motor Co. of Toronto, licensed the invention in 2005 and expects to start receiving units for its electric cars later this year.
MORE: From CNN. EEStor was talking a year ago, perhaps wildly, about replacing the internal combustion engine! Not just goodbye gas guzzlers, but goodbye gas. Wouldn’t that be sweet. But the commenters at Slashdot see lots of potential problems.
Via Instapundit
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