The Volt is a true electric with an onboard small ICE charging engine allowing 500 miles on a small tank of gasoline. They expect to have 50,000 orders by the time they go into production in mid 2010. About the time it arrives I expect to find that lithium-ion technology is so 2007, and ultracaps are starting to replace batteries by the thousands across the US!īTW, I got a newsletter from the Chevy Volt people today that over 10,000 reservation orders for the 2010 Volt have been accepted. capacitor developments pretty closely, and I have a personal interest with a Tesla on order. Thanks much for the link to the previous energy thread. Send them unarmed civilians for target practice. "Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life." Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape."
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And the charging capabilities of a capacitor enables "gas-stations" where vehicles can recharge on the go while the driver is having a coffee break. The difference between a capasitor (the capacitor) and a lithium-ion cell should be that the cap shouldn't experience aging the same way the battery cell does. Yes, it's now in the Archives: EEStor's storage capacitor: Breakthru or baloney? I absolutely recall a discussion about this some time ago on SFN. Contrast this to companies that are all hot air and demonstrate no working products ever, as with Steorn's infamous "Orbo." Also, EEStor's hated silence is actually encouraging. I've just got to suppose it's most likely that if the operators of the Skunk Works are that interested, there is probably something to all this. I notice the Lockheed contract came after the pessimistic article. I'm no damned good at it! I'm interested purely because we need such a technology. I don't and won't make investment suggestions. Is their an EE out there in Forumland that might like to comment on the technical accuracy of this blog?
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My engineering expertise isn't anywhere near up to a full reading of his technical arguments against EEStor. "Anonymous" sure seems to know what he's talking about. I had my broker on the phone and my checkbook out when I read this discussion from one of the links in the wiki EEStor article. The handmaiden of desperation the opiate of despair the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. "god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Ignorance is preferable to error and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong. Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive.Įither that or its a sign to sell your Lockheed stock now “ Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” -HalfMooner If Lockheed signed such a contract, it's almost certain that these things work as advertised. Now, Lockheed (hardly a lot of credulous fools) has signed a contract with EEStor to get copies of the supercapacitor.
But now, we have a pretty good hint that some serious engineers have looked at the EEStor supercapacitor, and saw that it was good. For its part, EEStor has been amazingly close-lipped about its product.
But, as always in such bleeding-edge technologies, it's often hard to tell the vapor from the reality.
This is a big, very big, deal if true, as it would provide a crucial breakthrough in storage, making electric cars much more practical. This compares to typical energy densities of capacitors of about 0.01 MJ/kg, and Lithium battery energy densities of about 0.54–0.72 MJ/kg. Personalize: Profile | My Page | Forum BookmarksĮncouraging hints about EEStor supercapacitorĪs I've mentioned in two previous posts, EEStor is a Texas company which claims to have perfected a supercapacitor capable of storing electrical power at an energy density of 1.0 MJ/kg.
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