Grant Slater of the Associated Press wrote a great article about EEStor and Patent No. 7,033,406. If this new capacitor technology is everything that they’ve hyped it up to be (drive your electric car 500 miles on a 5-minute plug-in to the wall) it is game changing on many levels.

On the plus side is all our hopes and dreams of more efficient energy storage. One of the top venture capital companies in the country, Kleiner Perkins, has invested $3M in the company which is an admittedly small amount. They’ve also licensed the technology to ZENN Motor. So there are a handful of people who have had a chance to perform due dilligence on the technology.

On the negative side there are a few very learned materials science folks who specialize in this area who are skeptical.

It will be interesting to see what unfolds, but the company has positioned itself to be either a hero or goat. Only time will tell.

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