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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 ...

ZENN: Trust us, the EESTOR thing is totally cool, like $700,000 cool Sebastian Blanco

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 ...

EEStor gets patent for EESU, we get some details 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

Stop the presses! We've finally got some real information regarding EEStor's highly secretive capacitor-based energy storage system, though it's not exactly coming from the company itself. It seems that EEStor recently filed for patents of its new technology, which centers around a core of aluminum ...

ZENN founder remains committedly-non-committal on EEStor 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

The Globe and Mail has published a online question and answer session between readers and Ian Clifford, founder of ZENN Motors. Aside from assembling a neighborhood electric vehicle in Canada, ZENN has garnered attention for its involvement with EEStor. The latter has made some big claims about a ...

Techno Ride drives a Zenn, comes away impressed 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

TechnoRide, 'the car site for tech fans,' has managed to score a Zenn electric car for review. They seem to have had a good time with the NEV, calling it "impressive." They do, however, note a few issues with the vehicle, which are to be expected, including a lack of luxury features and excessive ...

ZENN claims they will launch EEStor-powered EV in fall 2009 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

At ZENN annual shareholder meeting in Toronto yesterday, company officials made a big announcement about their plans to move beyond mere neighborhood electric vehicles. They plan to launch a model called the cityZENN which will be a fully certified electric car with 80 mph top speed and 250-mile ...

Is production of EEStor ultracapacitors being pushed back into 2008? 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

After having earlier proclaimed that they would have their remarkable new ultra-capacitors in production this year, it now looks like EESTor is delaying production for as much as six months. CNET actually managed to talk to EEStor CEO Richard Weir on the phone and he said that production would ...

E tu Zenn? Advertorial messaging in the EV world 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

What is it with small electric car companies and paid promotion? We just took a look at Zap's somewhat questionable dealings with the website RenewableEnergyStocks. And look, here comes Ian Clifford, Chief Executive Officer of ZENN Motor Company in an interview on WallSt.net, something ZENN is ...

Zenn buys into ultra capacitor company EEStor 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

ZENN Motor Company has paid $2.5 million for a 3.8 percent equity stake in ultra capacitor developer EEStor. The deal means that ZENN gets an exclusive deal for EEStor's batteries for small and medium sized vehicles. EEStor is going to use the money to fund the next stage of testing of their ...

EDTA Conference: Secret effects of EESTOR ultracapacitor info from ZENN Motor CEO 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

At the end of the day yesterday, I snagged a few minutes with ZENN Motor Company CEO Ian Clifford by the EDTA Conference refreshments table and posed the question that Darin left in the comments when I asked what readers wanted to know more about: what's up with this secretive EESTOR ...


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