Kleiner to sell off its early EEStor shares to Zenn Motors
Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins is getting rid of a small, early investment from back in 2005 in a highly controversial energy storage startup called EEStor.
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EEStor says it’s still alive and progressing
Energy storage company EEStor put out a press release on Tuesday saying it’s still alive and making progress on its technology.
Snake oil energy salesmen & green bamboozlers
Why are there so many snake oil salesmen and scam artists in the energy space?
The danger of politicians linking with high risk startups
Politicians, in office and retired, need to do their homework and pay special attention to connecting with tech and greentech startups. The majority of these companies won’t succeed.
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Zenn CEO & EEStor Champion Steps Down
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.
Latest on Zenn: Losing Money, Distancing from EEStor?
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.
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EnerG2 Kicks Off Fed-Backed Factory: First Ultracaps, Then the World
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.
The Reality of Cutting U.S. Carbon Emissions: Natural Gas
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.
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Khosla-backed Recapping – An EEStor Competitor?
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).
Zenn Ends Vehicle Production, Lays Off Staff in EEStor Bet
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…
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Zenn Reiterates Focus on EEStor Vehicles
Canadian electric vehicle maker Zenn has been pretty clear in press interviews about its future plans with stealthy energy storage firm EEStor.…
Why Lockheed Martin Wants to Be In The Clean Energy Biz
Can making stealth bombers and radar systems translate into a successful clean energy and energy efficiency technology business? Defense contractor Lockheed Martin,…
New Apple TV Software Is 3.0.K., But Still Needs Some Punch
Apple (s AAPL) released a software update for its Apple TV set-top box today offering a redesigned interface and support for iTunes…
All That's Left of Zenn Is EEStor Speculation and Hope
When Darryl Siry, former Chief Marketing Officer for electric car maker Tesla, calculated the “implied value” for secretive ultracapacitor maker EEStor at…
3 Steps to Success for Ultracapacitor Startups
Ultracapacitors, energy storage devices that can deliver quick bursts of intense power and withstand more charge and discharge cycles than batteries, could…
Nesscap: Ultracapacitors for 10x's the Power, Lifetime of Batteries
Ultracapacitors are the hyperactive version of energy storage — they have ultra-fast charge and discharge times, but lag behind batteries in terms…
Zenn Ditches Car Production Plans to Focus on EEStor Drive Train
Canadian electric vehicle maker Zenn Motors has been stating its grand vision for a while: to supply a range of automakers and…
EEStor Backer Zenn Motor Seeks DOE Funds to Build in Michigan
Canada’s Zenn Motor has its eye on Michigan and funding from the U.S. government to develop electric cars using energy storage startup…
Celtx Offers Free Pre-production for Your Multimedia Content
Many of us are increasingly working with multimedia online, including video and audio applications for everything from podcasts to video tutorials. While…
EEStor Interview: Kleiner Perkins Owns 20% or So
Stealthy energy storage maker EEStor continues to make headlines, despite the fact that the company has yet to deliver its device that…
EEStor, Zenn Take It Up a Notch, But Waiting Game Continues
Seven months ago the CEO of plug-in car maker Zenn Motors, Ian Clifford, said that the underlying factor of its exclusive deal…
Supercapacitor Market to Surge to $877M by 2014
The market for supercapacitors, energy storage devices that can charge quickly and store energy in a relatively small package, is poised to…
Redliner: Collaborative Editing Made Easy
If you need to collaborate on a document with someone, you can simply email a Word (s msft) document back and forth,…
Zenn Motors To Up Stake in EEStor, OKs Test Results
How many milestone test announcements does it take for secretive ultracapacitor developer EEStor to reach commercialization? We’re thinking it’s like the old…
EEStor: Are We There Yet?
Does yet another announcement about a successful test from secretive ultracapacitor developer EEStor mean a step closer to actual production? Yesterday, EEStor…
Zenn Motor Still Waiting on EEStor
Updated: Zenn Motor‘s first highway-speed electric car, the cityZenn, is still on the way, but it may take a bit longer to…
Lockheed on the Hunt for Clean Energy Tech Partners
If cleantech startups want to get into government contracting — an option with increasing appeal given the state of today’s private markets…
How Google Is Influencing Server Design
As the need for fast, large-scale computing to power sites like Facebook or even computing clouds has grown, manufacturers such as Rackable…
Lockheed, EEStor Working On Body Armor With Energy Unit
Add another log to the rumors igniting around energy storage startup EEStor. According to a patent application with World Intellectual Property Organization…
EEStor Missing ZENN Milestones in 2008
It’s looking pretty official that EEStor won’t be able to reach two important milestones for its automaker partner ZENN Motors by the…
EEStor Snags Its Patent
Looks like EEStor, the high-profile Texas energy storage startup, finally got its patent. According to the U.S. patent office it was issued…
Why EEstor Hooked Up With Zenn
We’ve always wondered why, if high-profile Texas energy storage startup EEstor has such disruptive technology, it did an exclusive deal with small…
A Great Christmas Gift: iPhoto Calendars
It’s the time of year when — love it or hate it — you need to start thinking about Christmas shopping. If…
The Daily Sprout
Ultracapacitor Startups to Charge Your Car: While many electric car makers are chasing the better battery, ultracapacitor startups are developing devices that…
Earth2Tech Week in Review
A bailout, a debate and a flurry of cleantech press releases could have had you distracted. Here are the important headlines from…
EEStor to Super Charge Electric Bikes
We still haven’t seen exactly how secretive EEStor’s ambiguously named Electrical Energy Storage Unit (EESU) works, but the Cedar Park, Texas-based startup…
Earth2Tech Week in Review
Congress is out for the summer, so in case you’re still frustrated that they haven’t gotten around to renewing those vital production…
EEStor: The Story So Far
Energy storage startup EEStor has been very quiet about its technology, so when CEO Richard Weir told us back in January that…
First gen iPhone values: $100 for 4-, 8GB; $280 for 16 GB
As you’ll hear in our weekly podcast, I’m not planning to upgrade my iPhone to the iPhone 3G. I was curious however:…
The Rise of the UltraCapacitor
Between the Superbowl yesterday and Super Tuesday tomorrow, you will be forgiven for overlooking Maxwell Technologies’ announcement today that the company’s San…
Charlie Giancarlo, #2 Guy at Cisco Joins Silver Lake Partners
The exodus of senior management at Cisco Systems (CSCO) continues. Today, Chief Development Officer Charlie Giancarlo and the #2 man at Cisco…
WWD Coffee Break – Project Management, Travel Tips & Themes
Projects R Us: There continues to be plenty of innovation and ferment in the online project management space. If you’re not satisfied…
US Wireless Biz: By The Numbers
Some fun facts from CTIA’s mid-year 2007 survey results (Download PDF): * At the end of first half of 2007, there were…
NTV Moneymaker: MovieLabs Challenge
In search of: An engineering ninja who wants to help keep pirates’ hands off Pirates of the Caribbean. Motion Pictures Laboratories, Inc.…
T-Mobile UK outs a USB HSDPA modem
Near as I can tell, this rebadged Vodafone T-Mobile USB modem will work on both Windows and Mac for HSDPA access in…
Why blanket statements are bad for everyone
Heh, I guess the very title of this post is a blanket statement now that I read it. That’s OK, if Jason…
Digital Media Make Their Mark
MIT Technology Review says “more than half of U.S. households now have a DVD player, a wireless phone, and Internet access.”
Yahoo Music on ScoblePhone, Pretty Good
Matthew Maier: Thanks to Yahoo’s recently released Music Unlimited service and an Audiovox 5600 smartphone, I finally got my first taste of…
Slow News.com Year
Okay I promised no blogging, but this was too good to pass-up. News.com, I guess mostly due to the rise of blogs…
