Filed under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, On Two Wheels, USA
EEStor signs exclusive contract with Light Electric Vehicles Company
Although they have yet to show off a prototype of their electrical energy storage unit (EESU) to a very curious public, the mysterious EEStor company has inked yet another deal. This time the future beneficiary of the super-duper capacitor is the Light Electric Vehicles Company (LightEVs) headed by Carl Watkins, former president of the Neighborhood Electric Vehicle Company (NEVCO), the company which brought the world the Gizmo EV. The world-wide "Exclusive Technology Agreement" grants LightEVs the rights to build and/or license two and three-wheeled electric vehicles powered by EEStor's EESU. Of the agreement Mr. Watkins says, "We are extremely happy to reach an agreement with EEStor to provide its new battery technology to the bicycle, scooter and motorcycle markets of the world. We have watched EEStor continue to make progress in proving their ability to produce ultra-high performance multilayered barium titanate ceramic capacitors in production quantities. They have met or exceeded each of their technology milestones, as verified by outside laboratories, and the remaining steps all utilize well established industry techniques."
In spite of their previously announced deals with Zenn Motor Company and Lockheed Martin, skepticism about the device seems to abound amongst those who frequent the website dedicated to eeverything EEStor, TheEEStory.com. The site, headed by an equally mysterious un-named blogger who answers only to the name of "B.", still has some true believers but a contractual agreement with a company with no existing product is not likely to gain any new conversions. Still, it all makes for interesting reading and "B" even lands interviews with the head of EEStor, Dick Weir, as well as other key players in this slowly unfolding techno-drama.
[Source: TheEEStory.com]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
stevefazek 7:00PM (9/30/2008)
These exclusive deals with anything up and coming is nothing but a scam. Well not a scam but just to get attention. Seriously if you have something that will be very important and useful you want to maximize you sales not stick yourself with a single company.
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Dave 4:22AM (10/01/2008)
If I understand correctly:
They have an exclusive contract for military applications.
They now have an exclusive contract for two and three wheel vehicles.
But they haven't signed away the rights to the big prize - four wheel passenger vehicles.
lgp 3:27AM (10/03/2008)
Huh, they've done just that with Zenn Motors...
Snowdog 7:02PM (9/30/2008)
I can't look away.
I have been following EEStor since the claims were saying they would be in cars in 2007, then 2008, now 2009...
Fraud or the biggest game changer going. Tough to decide.
I am betting they actually deliver something, someday, but it will fall far short of claims. I think the will scrape out the middle ground of being mediocre enough to not really matter, but substantial enough to stay out of Jail.
For now though it is certainly entertaining to watch and dream of the perfect battery as this is being sold (high energy density, unlimited charge/discharge rate, and nearly unlimited lifespan).
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EESU is a Fraud 5:27PM (10/01/2008)
Let's see I am sitting on world changing technology - I'm going to sign an exclusive deal with a company that only has a PO box number, and a web page that would receive a failing grade in remedial HTML.
Also, the headquarters are located in a strip mall in Austin, TX next door to the car insurance office and yoga wellness center and across from a residential neighborhood. 3 of Eestor's 9 employees all have the same last name of Weir.
Richard Weir claims to be able to do something that no one else has done ... but, he won't show anyone, nor will he make anything available for peer review.
FRAUD - SCAM - FRAUD - SCAM - FRAUD - SCAM - FRAUD - SCAM
Chris M 9:26PM (10/28/2008)
I'm voting for a 3rd option: delusional fool.
Several years ago, about 2000, someone popped up on the usenet newsgroup alt.energy.homepower with an idea for a new type of capacitor that would power cars. He kept posting the same nonsense over and over, even though others in that group kept pointing out how bad his idea was and how it wouldn't really work.
The pseudonym he used on that newsgroup was the same as his name for his superduper capacitor idea: eestor