EEStor Founder Dick Weir Confirms ESUs Presently Being Built, and Once Delivered to ZENN by the Fourth Quarter,

EEStor Inc is a Texas based startup that has been working in stealth mode for years to develop a disruptive breakthrough battery technology which would be extremely useful in electric cars.  The material they use is called Barium Titanate (composition modified) and has already been demonstrated to have extremely high permittivity, which means is can hold tremendous amounts of energy. Batteries made from this material would be several times lighter and less expensive than lithium-ion batteries, will not degrade over charge-discharge cycles, and could be recharged in minutes.

We recently heard from the CEO of ZENN Motors (ZNN.V) who is seeking to commercialize the ESU batteries for automotive use that the batteries were about to be publicly demonstrated for the first time, with proof they can hold energy at high voltage by September. ZENN is a 10 percent owner of EEStor, Inc.

An extensive audio interview with the normally silent Dick Weir, founder of EEStor, has been leaked to the web.  The 38 minute interview with an unknown interviewer took place in last month, and his identity has been confirmed by anonymous sources.

This is the first time in history we are give such extensive public details of the inner workings and validity of what EEStor is doing.

Weir explains that barium titanate has long been known to have high energy storage capacity but that previous workers had failed to successfully harness that property because of ineffective chemical engineering.  He explains how EEStor realized a milling process wouldn't work and how they invented a specialized aqueous process.

"We've done a great job because a lot of this stuff has been out here over 3 years, 3 1/2 years, and no degradation whatsoever," he says. "I mean zero. So we're very happy that we really have superior chemistry here and from the aqueous process."

He explains how high purification is extremely important to remove sodium and potassium which has resistance and block the chemical ability to operate at high voltage. He also noted the importance of coating the powder with aluminum oxide which they've done and "sealed in all the goodness," preventing particles from talking to one another. He confirmed the material has been certified as pure. Finally he notes that through other processes EEStor was able to achieve a high permittivity operating in the deep ferroelectric phase. As Weir puts it "we knew we'd hit the home run then," and "the permittivity was 22,500 and or higher." He noted their goal was 18,500 and that their tests "shows 22,500 and greater...we're just not going to tell how great it is."

He mentioned they've passed all their milestones and have put ZENN's recent $700,000 payment "to very good use."

"We're actually installing our stuff now to go into ESU production," he said. "And we've told the world that you can anticipate us being in a proto in a pre-production mode of ESUs by the 4'th quarter this year."

He notes since it is now June (at the time of the recording), "I'm ahead of schedule."

He says the ramp up of production is modular and inexpensive. He says "you get the hardware quick enough to actually ramp up and put your lines in at a very effective time frame." And he notes it doesn't cost $5 million for a piece of assembly equipment but rather "it's more in the neighborhood of something $50,000 and I can buy it off the shelf...Very cost effective and time effective."

He explains how the basic ingredient Barite is very readily available, much more so than lithium. He says that Barite used to be used in cathode ray TVs which are now a thing of the past so therefore his company is "the best friend the Barium company's got in the world."