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How can EEStor be valued at $1.5 billion?

We've long given up on waiting for announcements from EEStor (and, to a lesser degree, their partner ZENN) to come true. But, with the latest move by ZENN to drop their plans to launch the cityZENN high-speed electric car and will instead focus on becoming a supplier of ZENNergy Drive electric vehicle drivetrain components – ZENN's low-speed vehicles (pictured) have also been curtailed – the reality is that ZENN and EEStor are tied at the hip. As our friend Darryl Siry writes over at Autopia points out, the bond between these ... Read more →

REPORT: Zenn cancels plans for high-speed EV, will focus on supplying ZENNergy Drive components Jeremy Korzeniewski

According to reports from Reuters and GM-Volt.com, Zenn Motors has canceled plans to launch its cityZENN high-speed electric car and will slow down work on its low-speed EVs. According to Zenn ...

REPORT: public demonstrations of EESTOR's sectretive EESU next month? Sebastian Blanco

Last month, we got a glimpse inside EEStor's ultracapacitor progress thanks to a leaked audio clip – admittedly, possibly on purpose – of someone interviewing EEStor CEO Dick Weir. At ...

EEStor information overload (not a typo) in leaked interview with CEO Dick Weir Sebastian Blanco

For about six hours recently, a leaked (we assume it was leaked) audiotape of someone speaking with EEStor CEO Dick Weir was available on Yahoo! video. Before the video was yanked, enterprising ...

EESTor update from ZENN CEO Ian Clifford; demonstrations coming in 2010 Sebastian Blanco

EEStor, the company behind the ultralight, ultra-efficient – and ultra secret – EEStor Electrical Energy Storage Units (EESU) that could change the electric car world, still isn't giving ...

ZENN: Trust us, the EESTOR thing is totally cool, like $700,000 cool 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

Hype maintenance can be hard work. Following the Earth Day announcement that the EEStor ultracapacitor had passed independent tests that showed it had a relative permittivity of 22,500, the automaker most closely tied to the secretive company, ZENN, has come out to say two things. First, the test ...

Bikes vs. cars race ends in decisive two-wheeled victory 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

What does it take to beat a Zenn electric car and a Toyota Prius in cross-town driving? A pair of wheels and some leg-power. In the sixth annual Commuter Race in San Jose, California, all the bikes - a standard bike, a tandem and a hybrid bike - beat the two cars in a treasure hunt-style race ...

EEStor "permittivity" follow-up, by someone who knows (Daryl Siry) 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

Following EEStor's permittivity announcement on Earth Day last week, I wrote a post that ended with a call for our readers to determine if the stated "relative permittivity of 22,500" was a big deal or not. There were some educated responses (thank you), but one refrain that kept appearing was that ...

ZENN tries to boost EV market with under $10k NEV 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

Those of you with an interest in electrically-driven transportation who don't need a full function car may want to check out the latest deal from Canadian company ZENN. The ZENN electric car can be had for just $9,995 until the end of June. ZENN is looking for early adopters to be ambassadors for ...

ZENN picks manufacturer for cityZENN highway-speed electric vehicle 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

How does this make sense: ZENN recently announced that company officials had selected a manufacturer to produce a highway-speed electric vehicle, called the cityZENN. Following this, ZENN's stock fell three percent. You'd think people would be happy with an announcement like that. As always, there ...

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