
a zenn (fundada por ian clifford) não é uma empresa qualquer. a zenn é actualmente a linha da frente no que toca veiculos electricos e tem um modelo que tem evoluido ao longo destes anos.

fundamentalmente importam as carroçarias de frança, montam o veiculo com a tracção electrica no canada e exportam para os estados unidos. é um nev.
http://www.zenncars.com/
http://www.zenncars.com/media/documents ... energy.pdf
o feel good é um carro unico e a maior novidade será a introdução das melhores baterias do mundo nele. as baterias capacitivas da eestor, as eesu. por isso revejam periodicamente as noticias deles até surgirem mais novidades. a empresa que ameaça tirar-nos o doce da boca é a lockheed martin, pois sao "necessarias" para o esforço da guerra para nos darem.... mais petroleo! simultaneamente manteem esta tecnologia fora do nosso alcançe (e radar de alguns).doug: now it seems from some of the recent stories that you are also going to push your way into a faster vehicle with the battery capacity issues and other efforts you are making. could you talk about that?
ian: sure. we have a relationship that i started back in probably 2003 with a company called eestor - e-e-s-t-o-r - and they are based in austin, texas. and they are developing and commercializing really a breakthrough energy storage technology, so all the limitations that we face right now with chemical batteries like lead acid or nickel metal hydride or lithium-ion are overcome in their technology. so you have a product that you know will last for a million cycles, that will recharge in minutes as distinct from hours for chemical battery technologies. it's much lighter. it operates in, you know, extremes of temperature and operating conditions. really, what has been the achilles heel of the electric vehicle industry has been energy storage. so i did a lot of research at the time looking for what i thought the most robust solution going forward would be and certainly we are very optimistic with their progress and what they will be delivering. if they stay on schedule they are scheduled to deliver it in 2008.
doug: that's the ultra-capacitor.
ian: it is an ultra - yeah, and it's - to use an ultra-capacitor to describe it doesn't really do it justice. it's really an ultra-capacitor on steroids if you will. it's an ultra-capacitor with energy and power storage type characteristics that have not - we haven't seen in the capacitor world yet.
http://eestor.us/
http://www.zenncars.com/media/documents ... martin.pdf
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