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ZENN: Trust us, the EESTOR thing is totally cool, like $700,000 cool
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 results have been verified. There are a whole heap of details on the verification process in the release after the jump. Second, ZENN says that the results mean it will pay EEStor another $700,000 U.S. "in accordance with the Technology Agreement ... Read more →
Bikes vs. cars race ends in decisive two-wheeled victory Sebastian Blanco
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 - ...
EEStor "permittivity" follow-up, by someone who knows (Daryl Siry) Sebastian Blanco
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 ...
ZENN tries to boost EV market with under $10k NEV Sam Abuelsamid
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 ...
ZENN picks manufacturer for cityZENN highway-speed electric vehicle Sebastian Blanco
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 ...
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EVCast offers up panel of "experts" to take your electric car questions tomorrow 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
If you'd like to listen to a sort of state of the electric vehicle industry panel discussion, tune in to the EVCast tomorrow. The live show (which will be available later as a podcast and for download) starts at 1:30 Eastern (10:30 am Pacific) on Tuesday. Listeners can tune send in questions and ...
What is a neighborhood electric vehicle (NEV)? 4 months ago on AutoblogGreen
We all want electric vehicles that we can afford. Unfortunately the only full function electric car "available on the market" in the United States right now is the Tesla Roadster. However even before car loans became hard to get, the Roadster was largely unaffordable. So, what other options are ...
Biofuel station goes electric with ZENN dealership 6 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Biodiesel, meet electricity. That's the message being sent by the reopening of the Green Station. It used to be just a biodiesel refueling stop; not it's a biofuel pump station and a ZENN dealership. According to SantaCruz.com, station co-owner Bill LeBon now thinks that NEVs like the ZENN can be ...
EEStor gets patent for EESU, we get some details 6 months ago on AutoblogGreen
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 6 months ago on AutoblogGreen
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 ...
EEStor makes production milestone announcement of sorts 11 months ago on AutoblogGreen
Fictive Atlantean confused charge Following months of silence about the progress of its potentially world-changing energy storage device, the secretive Cedar Park, Texas-based firm, EEStor, has issued a press release announcing that it has reached key production milestones. One such marker for ...
Techno Ride drives a Zenn, comes away impressed 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
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 AutoblogGreen
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 ...
Laugh with, not at, ZENN cars 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
If you like to laugh at tiny neighborhood electric vehicles, take a look at the video above. It's got ZENN cars, Canadian comic Rick Mercer and a few good beer jokes. Of course, Mercer also makes the case for NEVs in this video, so don't expect simple ridicules of ZENN's vehicles. Instead, the ...
What's this? EESTOR convinces Lockheed Martin it's on to something 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
The EESTOR ultracapacitor is a technology we really, really want to know more about. The huge potential of these devices that we do know about certainly keeps our ears open for news - or rumors or anything, really - about the technology. We don't know much more about the actual ultracaps (aka ...
The Zenn of delivering the mail in Washington 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
For package delivery companies and the Post Office, the rising cost of fuel is taking an ever larger bite of revenues. In Washington state, Carolyn Triebenbach has found a solution. As a rural letter carrier Triebenbach does her daily twenty-mile route on only $0.40 worth of electricity. She uses a ...
Montana ZENN dealer Eco Auto talks to Electric Cars Are For Girls 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Readers who click through all of the links that we offer you in a day might remember Ron Gompertz, the owner of Eco Auto, Inc. He was mentioned in an article on MSNBC about eco-car dealers in the U.S. Lynne Mason over at Electric Cars Are For Girls has gotten hold of Gompertz for a lengthy Q&A ...
More details on how ZENN received safety mark from Transport Canada 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Recently we told you about Transport Canada's sudden shift to give Zenn's low speed electric vehicles a safety mark. Here is how it all happened according to the CBC; After the TV report, which included Transport Canada failing to give a good reason on why they held back the safety mark, Ian ...
Zenn is now legal to drive on Canada's streets 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Less than a week ago, we told you about a CBC report with Zenn complaining Transport Canada was not allowing its low speed vehicle to sold in Canada. The report included a regulatory enforcement engineer that explained they were not being allowed to be sold yet because they were going to change the ...
How to raise your ZENN NEV's speed limit to 35 - but check the caveats 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Almost all NEVs in the U.S. are limited by law (and thus by a setting in the car) to 25 mph. In some areas - Montana, for example - the laws are being changed so that these little commuter cars can go 35 mph. But, just because the law changes doesn't mean that the car magically upgrades its top ...
Canada is killing the electric car 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Canadian-based Dynasty electric cars is ending production in Canada and moving over seas. Very soon Canadian-based electric car company Zenn may choose to give up on Canada and move production as well. Why? The Canadian dollar reaching parity with the US dollar did not help much (imports from ...
C-NET tries to count all the electric car start-ups 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
C-NET's Michael Kanellos did a little thinking out loud this week when he tried to list all of the electric car start-up companies (not major automakers working on EVs). He counted 16 small companies. The names on this list will be familiar to just about anyone who reads AutoblogGreen, but I ...
CAR samples the French built MicroCar MC1, a gas powered ZENN 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
To those who've been following this site for a while, the car you see above may look familiar. We have covered the Canadian built ZENN neighborhood electric vehicle on several occasions including their involvement with ultra-capacitor developer EEStor. The car pictured above is based on the same ...
Is production of EEStor ultracapacitors being pushed back into 2008? 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
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 ...
Zenn claiming 500 mile range on 5 minute charge without any batteries 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
As Toyota hesitates on lithium ion battery technology and General Motors races ahead, Canadian startup Zenn is trying to leapfrog them. We've talked about ZENN before and also their deal with EEStor to use their ultra-capacitor technology. EEStor has made some pretty amazing claims as has ZENN. ...
ZENN will offer warranty services from 4CS 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
ZENN promotional video We haven't heard much from ZENN recently, but the electric car company announced yesterday that ZENN will be offering warranty services through 4CS. It looks like vehicles and parts will be covered through 4CS' iWarranty and iParts services. If you're ready for a way-too-busy ...
Problems at ZENN and EEStor? 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
Recently, I've noticed that we've had a few comments regarding the lack of announcements coming from ZENN Motors and EEStor regarding when we might see an actual product using their new energy storage technology. In fact, it was even mentioned by one person who visited a ZENN dealership that he ...
E tu Zenn? Advertorial messaging in the EV world 1 year ago on AutoblogGreen
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 ...
EESTOR who? EPOD also working on vehicle ultracapacitor 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
There's been lots of speculation about the EESTOR ultracapacitor and just what kind of impact - if any - it will have on the hybrid and all-electric vehicle market. Just look below at the list of stories we've run in the past on the EESTOR and ZENN, which is the vehicle company the EESTORs are ...
Zenn buys into ultra capacitor company EEStor 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
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 ...
Lang Motors creates a video for the ZENN NEV 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
NEVs, or neighborhood electric vehicles, don't seem to work out for everybody, but for those who can make them work despite the driving range and speed limitations, they are a good choice, as they can be fully electric and require no petroleum fuel at all. Here is a video from Lang Motors, ...
Montana raises NEV speed limit to 35 mph 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Click on the photo for a high-res gallery of the AEV Kurrent factory tour The state of Montana has just passed a law raising the speed limit for neighborhood electric vehicles from 25mph to 35mph. Montana becomes the first state in the nation to allow the increasingly common NEVs to travel at the ...
AFVI Show: All about electric cars with Dynasty, GEM, Zap!, ZENN and Phoenix 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Dynasty, GEM, Zap!, ZENN, Phoenix. Certain readers in our audience will see this list and think, "What about Tesla? And Miles?" I'm not sure why those last two companies were not part of the electric vehicle panel at AFVI on Tuesday, but they weren't. Miles even had a presence at the show (Tesla ...
AFVI Show: Expo display vehicles - Chevy Sequel, E85 Interceptor, Zap! ATV, T3 and more 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
That there is Larry Hagman. Mr. J.R. Ewing himself. He's a big green car advocate now, and he wandered the AFVI expo hall Monday afternoon looking over the cars and signing autographs for folks. Some of the cars he checked out were from ZENN and Zap! Other cars on the floor are the new police-duty ...
NEVs may get more speed in Washington State 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
Click on the photo for a high res gallery from the AEV factory tour Here are AutoblogGreen, we've done several reports on various neighborhood electric vehicles such as the various models from GEM and a factory visit to American Electric Vehicle that included a drive in their Kurrent. These NEVs ...
A 9 minute video of the ZENN Neighborhood Electric Vehicle 2 years ago on AutoblogGreen
The benefits and drawbacks of Neighborhood Electric Vehicles, or NEVs, are pretty widely know debated. The ease of use, lack of gasoline consumption and low environmental impact spur their purchase by drivers who need to get around large complexes and communities, but their lack of speed, range ...
