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EEStor is the Texas-based company secretly developing an ultrahigh energy density, ultra-low cost, ultra-long -life new energy storage material that in theory would antiquate lithium-ion batteries overnight.

Not unexpectedly there is much hype, excitement and intrigue surrounding the company's 10 year private voyage towards unveiling an actual working prototype.


Reportedly they are nearing that climactic day and have publicity stated they will prove their technology to the world by the end of September, slightly more than one month from now.

Ten percent owner ZENN Motor Company (ZNN.V) certainly can't wait because they will be the first to receive delivery of these so called EESUs or energy storage units which will be placed in waiting ZENNCity electric cars.

Recently leaked audio of Dick Weir who is the co-founder of EEStor suggested the company was well on their way to success.  "I know they are working hard!", says ZENN CEO Ian Clifford as of right now, referring to EEStor's race to produce their production EESUs.

In the leaked audio, Weir referred to a company in California called Polarity Inc. that is "actually putting the ZENN circuits together literally as we speak" to create ESUs for ZENN's cars.

Internet sleuth work of the EEStor blog has confirmed that company is called Polarity Inc. of Rancho Cordova, CA.

Confirming the audio's validity Polarity has published the following accomplishment on their website:

2009: Awarded contract from EESTOR to integrate Polarity’s high power HV to LV converter into EESTOR's EESU that will be used in Zenn Motor Company’s small to medium size electric car

Clifford has indicated the EESUs will have a native voltage of 3500.  These convertors will be used to step down the voltage into something more usable for vehiolce applications, around 600 V.

Weir also said the Polarity circuits would be used for testing the components which are the building blocks of the EESUs as well as the EESUs themselves.





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Comments (26)

  1. Scott Posted: 8/26/2009 5:13am PDT

    A little over a month away till EESTOR has their coming out party. Cool! If they're successful, a lot of tongues will be dropping to the floor.
     
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  2. Wheelo Posted: 8/26/2009 5:18am PDT

    I'm not sure Dick Weir of Eestor actually promised anything by September, but all signs say we are getting close to, as I like to say, either something or nothing. If it's something, Zenn's stock will begin a rise that nobody knows the end of. Zenn has an exclusive to provide EESU's for all cars about the size of a Camry and smaller, so that any car company worldwide who wants to sell an EESU powered car will have to license the technology from Zenn. Plus they own 10% of Eestor, so stock owners will be able to participate in every other stored power market, because if these things are real, then everything you can think of with a battery will have an EESU instead in a matter of years. Lots of us that hang out on www.theeestory.com have small (and some large) speculative positions in Zenn Motors (znnm.f in the US. If you are an investor, particularly if you like putting your money into "green" tech, this is a unique opportunity to do so. A small position will do.
     
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  3. EduardoRG Posted: 8/26/2009 2:00pm PDT

    OK asuming Eestor are real, how this will impact the world ?? and how fast will it spread thru the whole world ???
     
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  4. starm_ Posted: 8/26/2009 4:42pm PDT

    "Reportedly they are nearing that climactic day and have publicity stated they will prove their technology to the world by the end of September" Can we get a confirmation of this? When and where was that statement made?
     
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  5. Don't think so Posted: 8/26/2009 4:58pm PDT

    "prove their technology to the world by the end of September"
    I second what starm posted. I believe this is an example of poor reporting, which is now being picked up by other sites and reported as fact. please check your facts and post a retraction. This will unfairly taint eestor's credibility.
     
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  6. bob Posted: 8/26/2009 6:52pm PDT

    Let's see if I got this right..a potentially revolutionary invention is being bankrolled by a Canadian venture co. Apparently they got a full allocation..no US investors interested? Also the only Ibankers interested in getting in on a piece of the action is a two bit outfit from Toronto (Paradigm Capital)? That is the same Paradigm Capital whose former compliance officer also moonlighted as a bank robber..(See Toronto Star story.. http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/512948)
    How convenient that Canada is also a hot bed of white collar crime and gutless and incompetent policing and prosecution..home of such upstanding businessmen as Conrad Black and Bernie Ebbers who were unfortunate enough to ply their trade in the U.S.
    I am not saying that EEstor /Zenn is a scam. I don't have enough evidence of that. I am just saying Canada is fertile ground for just such a scam if it were to exist.
     
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  7. lyle avatar Lyle Dennis Posted: 8/27/2009 6:23am PDT

    #4 #5
    That reference is from the exact words of Ian Clifford, CEO of ZENN Motors. I quote "The timeframe that EEStor had disclosed was the end of September."
     
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  8. starm_ Posted: 8/27/2009 6:34am PDT

    Thanks for the reply Lyle. Did he say that to you personally or does that quote comes from somewhere else?
     
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  9. Don't think so Posted: 8/27/2009 6:41am PDT

    "That reference is from the exact words of Ian Clifford"
    EXACT WORDS? I don't believe providing zenn with a prodution line prototype unit to begin testing and publicly proving it to the world are the same thing.
     
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  10. Baghead Brendan Posted: 8/27/2009 7:56am PDT

    #5
    Did Ian Clifford post a retraction in 2007 after stating EEStor to Deliver EESU to Zenn by end of 07. Did Ian Clifford post a retraction in 2008 when he stated delivery of EESU to Zenn was "imminent"?
    What comes out of Ian Clifford's mouth in reference to EESTor is nothing but BS.
     
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  11. Noel Park Posted: 8/27/2009 3:45pm PDT

    Believe none of what your hear and half of what you see.
     
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  12. lyle avatar Lyle Dennis Posted: 8/27/2009 4:26pm PDT

    #8
    Personal email to me.
    #9
    That's a matter of debate.
     
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  13. Life's Lesson's Posted: 8/28/2009 3:05am PDT

    Engineering projections and reality do not always meet expectations.
     
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  14. jpo234 Posted: 8/28/2009 5:30am PDT

    @bob: According to the transcript of Weir's leaked call Kleiner Perkins owns about 20% of EEstor.
     
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  15. Yukon Posted: 8/28/2009 6:00am PDT

    Lyle, can you post IC's email in its entirety? I would like to see the full context.
     
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  16. Baghead Brendan Posted: 8/28/2009 8:28am PDT

    #15 Yukon,
    Why don't you demand your leader the blogger with the bag over his head Baghead to post all of Ian Clifford's, Dick Weir's and Tom Weir's email he has received the last 2 years in it's entirety so we can see the full context.
    Lyle, do not post the entirety of the email you received from Ian Clifford. If Baghead's followers want information, let their leader Baghead who knows lot more of what's going on with EESCAM and Zenn make the information public.
     
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  17. Don't think so Posted: 8/28/2009 12:16pm PDT

    CORRECTION: In post #9, in reference to what had been promised by the end of sept I stated that:
    "I don't believe providing zenn with a prodution line prototype unit to begin testing and publicly proving it to the world are the same thing."
    I still believe this to be true but production line prototypes were promised by the END of 2009 not the end of sept
    Tom Weir:
    "Our objective is to complete component testing by September 2009. In parallel, we will be finalizing our second objective which consists of the assembly processes necessary to deliver production quality components and/or EESU's by the end of 2009."
    Ian Clifford:
    "EEStor made the public statement that they anticipate having at-voltage components verified independently by September of this year and delivery of production prototype EESUs to us by then end of 2009".
    Lyle, in post #7 you say your reference to them publicity stating they will prove their tech to the world by the end of Sept comes from Ian Clifford stating that "The timeframe that EEStor had disclosed was the end of September." but you don't give any context as to what the quote was in reference to. If that statement is in reference to the above quotes from Tom Weir and Ian Clifford I don't see how that can be construed as the EXACT same WORDS as promising to prove their tech to the world by the end of sept. Also, I don't believe a personal email qualifies as a public statement. Lyle, please take the time to clear this up.
     
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  18. Yukon Posted: 8/28/2009 3:38pm PDT

    Baghead,
    Why so insecure? You seem very defensive, I wonder why? Have another read, I didnt demand anything, I asked to see the email. If the author doesnt want to show it to me so be it. Get over yourself.
     
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  19. Baghead Brendan Posted: 8/28/2009 4:27pm PDT

    #17 #18
    You followers of the blogger with the bag over his head Baghead (pumper of Zenn/EESTor) are so pathetic. Leave Lyle alone with your BS. Go to your leader Baghead and tell him to call Dick or Tom Weir and ask them if and when EESTOR will be delivering anything to Zenn by September. Don't tell me the BS Dick and Tom are under an NDA because both of them have given interviews to Baghead previously.
    You could fool some of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time, RIGHT BAGHEAD.
     
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  20. jim Posted: 8/29/2009 7:11am PDT

    bob,
    you are a complete idiot. canada is not some thrid world nation. you name two people in the history of canada that went bad. please give us a break. the usa is full of criminals. coprprate america owns your ass. you must be a relican because only republicans are that stupid.
     
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  21. r embrey Posted: 8/30/2009 8:23am PDT

    I've been following eestor very closely for a number of months and I don't anyone from eestor that says they are coming out with the component by the end of September. All that has been reported in sometime in the 4th quarter.
     
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  22. Baghead Brendan Posted: 8/30/2009 9:13am PDT

    #21
    I've been following EEStor closely over 5 years and Dick Weir CEO of EEStor has said many things but has produced nothing but hype and wait till end of year BS.
     
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  23. Jimza Skeptic Posted: 8/30/2009 2:43pm PDT

    EEStor's should have had a prototype put together years ago when they filed their first patent. Complex prototypes take years to evolve into a commercial product. IF... this is the first prototype, then a commerical Zenn is 5-10 years away from hitting the road. And that is if there is shred of truth to EEStor claims.
     
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  24. Stan Lippmann Posted: 9/2/2009 10:52am PDT

    I read the patent a few years ago, and it seems plausible to me (JHU Ph.D. Physics 1989) I have no particular knowledge about this situation, but I do view the global situation through the prism of the end of the Age of Oil, not because we are running out of it anytime soon (which we are not) or that burning fossil fuels is destroying Earth (which it is not) but because this is only one of the factors in an overall situation in which wind, solar, geothermal, and perhaps hydrino power are going to be if they are already not at grid parity. Even if the EESU turns out to be a dud or needs to go back to the drawing board, there are simple ways to get off imported oil immediately, namely by converting our fleet to natural gas. The overarching paradigm shift involves the Liberal fascist ZPG ecology movement is about to be exposed for what it always was, a UN globalist conspiracy.
     
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  25. TV321 Posted: 9/8/2009 4:31am PDT

    22 days left in September!
     
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  26. EEBullsht Posted: 2/15/2010 8:04am PST

    Weir still waiting. Don't hold your breath.
    ,
     
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