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At the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco on Wednesday, Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk says he bets that it could be capacitors — rather than batteries — that will deliver an important breakthrough for electric transportation, an interesting comment from a CEO whose products are based on lithium-ion batteries Read more »

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Latest on Zenn: Losing Money, Distancing from EEStor?

With no word in sight from Zenn Motor’s endlessly-controversial partner on which it bet the farm — EEStor — the CEO of Zenn Motors, Ian Clifford, has officially stepped down this week. Clifford will shift into the role of Vice Chair of the Board of Directors. Read more »

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While Zenn Motor came to the end of its life as an electric car maker four months ago, there’s still no word on progress from Zenn’s controversial partner — on which it bet the farm — EEStor. In fact Zenn seems to be distancing itself. Read more »

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EnerG2, a company working on synthetic carbon materials for energy storage devices, hit pay dirt last summer with the award of a stimulus grant under a DOE program. Today, in Albany, Ore., the startup at last kicked off construction of the factory made possible by that grant. Read more »

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Despite all of the innovations and investments in solar, wind, and the smart grid, the reality of cutting carbon emissions out of the U.S. energy portfolio will rely on natural gas, which will make up 40 percent of the U.S. energy market according to a report today. Read more »

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Here’s one reason why greentech venture capitalist Vinod Khosla might have been a bit skeptical of stealth energy storage company EEStor last year — looks like he’s invested in a company that could be a competitor called Recapping (that is if EEStor ever releases a product). Read more »

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Zenn Motor has come to the end of its life as an electric car maker. The Toronto-based company’s announcement late Thursday that it has ceased production of its Zenn LSV model and laid off 15 employees who supported sales, marketing and production of the vehicle, marks the […] Read more »

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One of the most commonly cited problems about solar power is that it’s intermittent, meaning that it’s not always sunny when electricity is needed. That means customers can’t count on being able to generate exactly as much solar power as they need to meet electricity demand […] Read more »

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Nintendo America President and COO Reggie Fils-Aime recently told CNBC that the company isn’t even close to releasing a second-generation Wii console. Consumers don’t want HD as much as they want a compelling experience, he argued, and more than 26 million Wii owners seem to support […] Read more »

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EEStor, the energy storage developer, has no shortage of skeptics. That comes with the territory when making ambitious claims about turning energy storage on its head while revealing little evidence as to how. And while Canadian electric vehicle maker and EEStor backer Zenn has bet heavily […] Read more »

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Canadian electric vehicle maker Zenn has been pretty clear in press interviews about its future plans with stealthy energy storage firm EEStor. Back in September Zenn said it planned to ditch its previous car manufacturing business in order to act as a supplier to the auto […] Read more »

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Can making stealth bombers and radar systems translate into a successful clean energy and energy efficiency technology business? Defense contractor Lockheed Martin, like competitor Boeing, seems to think so. In a briefing on Wednesday Lockheed Martin executives described the defense firm’s overarching energy strategy, which includes […] Read more »

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When Darryl Siry, former Chief Marketing Officer for electric car maker Tesla, calculated the “implied value” for secretive ultracapacitor maker EEStor at over $1.5 billion, based on the entirety of Zenn Motor’s market cap, he was being somewhat cheeky. But the reasoning behind the calculation is […] Read more »

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Ultracapacitors, energy storage devices that can deliver quick bursts of intense power and withstand more charge and discharge cycles than batteries, could provide a twofer — disrupt the vehicle market and revolutionize the power grid. That’s the basic pitch from developers of next-gen ultracapacitors (most audibly […] Read more »

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Ultracapacitors are the hyperactive version of energy storage — they have ultra-fast charge and discharge times, but lag behind batteries in terms of the amount of energy they can store. Because of their unique characteristics, entrepreneurs and investors have seen them as an area of breakthrough […] Read more »

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Canadian electric vehicle maker Zenn Motors has been stating its grand vision for a while: to supply a range of automakers and grid operators with energy storage technology created with partner EEStor. That’s what Zenn CEO Ian Clifford told us at the Fortune Brainstorm Green conference […] Read more »

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Public officials might be well advised to steer clear of controversy, but when it comes to energy storage startup EEStor, its investor Zenn Motor — and the companies’ bold claims about the disruptive potential of EEStor’s ultracapacitor technology — a couple of Congressmen are plowing right […] Read more »

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Canada’s Zenn Motor has its eye on Michigan and funding from the U.S. government to develop electric cars using energy storage startup EEStor’s controversial ultracapacitor technology. According to a letter (dated June 29) from Congressman Mark Schauer, which was posted late yesterday on TheEEStory.com, Zenn’s U.S. […] Read more »

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Many of us are increasingly working with multimedia online, including video and audio applications for everything from podcasts to video tutorials. While well-known tools such as Audacity and Blender can help you deliver slickly produced online audio and video content, really good producers make use of […] Read more »

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While most iPhone users are aware of unofficial unlock methods, you may be surprised to discover that it’s possible to legally unlock your device, courtesy of Apple. The above image is the not-often-seen official unlock notification, as displayed in iTunes. The dialogue succinctly confirms that the […] Read more »

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If Canadian electric vehicle maker Zenn Motor Co. once saw lithium-ion batteries as a possible alternative to devices from its controversial investment in ultracapacitor developer EEStor, the more standard technology is now officially out of the running for its future cars. According to Zenn’s third-quarter results […] Read more »

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While the green-leaning venture capitalists at Kleiner Perkins look like they own about 20 percent of buzzy energy storage firm EEStor, Vinod Khosla — an affiliated partner at Kleiner and head of his own firm, Khosla Venture — appears to have a different perception of the […] Read more »

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Stealthy energy storage maker EEStor continues to make headlines, despite the fact that the company has yet to deliver its device that has such revolutionary claims. But the latest news comes via an audio interview that was conducted by an unknown interviewer with EEStor’s CEO Dick […] Read more »

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Seven months ago the CEO of plug-in car maker Zenn Motors, Ian Clifford, said that the underlying factor of its exclusive deal for small- and midsized cars with high-profile energy storage startup EEStor was the fact that the bigger automakers didn’t want to take a risky […] Read more »

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It’s about time two of greentech’s highest-profile investors got together on a deal. This afternoon V-Vehicle, an auto startup that was founded in 2006, came out of stealth and unveiled that it has gained investment from the venture capitalists at Kleiner Perkins — John Doerr and […] Read more »

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The Urban Dictionary, the user-generated slang web site, recently had a word of the day which I thought was particularly fitting for cleantech companies and entrepreneurs: the chronoptimist, someone who constantly underestimates the time it takes to complete a task (chronologically optimistic.) While entrepreneurs everywhere are […] Read more »

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The market for supercapacitors, energy storage devices that can charge quickly and store energy in a relatively small package, is poised to power up significantly over the next five years. While capacitors have traditionally been used for quick bursts of speed, rather than endurance, companies and […] Read more »

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If you need to collaborate on a document with someone, you can simply email a Word document back and forth, but that can get messy as it’s hard to keep track of the various versions of the document moving around. Or you could use an online […] Read more »

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How many milestone test announcements does it take for secretive ultracapacitor developer EEStor to reach commercialization? We’re thinking it’s like the old ’70s song: You ain’t seen nothing yet. But here’s the latest — on Thursday, Zenn Motors, EEStor’s electric vehicle partner and investor, said it […] Read more »

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Adding digital intelligence to the power grid is getting all the attention right now from Congress, investors and entrepreneurs, but a next-generation smart grid without energy storage is like a computer without a hard drive: severely limited. Energy stored throughout the grid can provide dispatchable power […] Read more »

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Lithium-ion batteries found in consumer electronics and the latest electric vehicles (Tesla’s Roadster and GM’s Volt) have a couple of major hurdles: They can be flammable and unstable, and the higher the energy density, the more volatile the technology. That’s the problem that Mohit Singh, founder […] Read more »

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For Deeya Energy, good things come in threes. The Fremont, Calif.-based startup, which is working on energy storage technology for three applications — replacing diesel generators, stockpiling renewable energy, and stabilizing the electric grid — has just closed a third round of financing. The oversubscribed $30 […] Read more »

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My call for your favorite utilities for UMPCs has gotten me some good recommendations and one of those is our Freeware of the Moment. Our friend HG pointed out that the Rocketdock program is good for UMPCs as it provides a customizable dock that is very […] Read more »

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