Texas company EEStor, Inc. is hard at work on their ultracapacitor energy storage device made from ceramics.  This new technology will be lighter, more powerful, longer lasting and easier on the environment than current large capacity battery technologies. The EEStor energy storage device is purported to charge within 5 minutes to an energy capacity great enough to move a car 500 miles.  This takes just about $9.00 in electricity, equivalent to around 45 cents for a gallon of gas!  .



The new storage device is made of a barium titrate ceramic process and is technically not a battery at all, since no chemicals are used in the unit.  Materials are layered in solid ceramic construction and the final unit.  The entire fabrication process is contained within one clean ‘no touch’ fully automated production line, with raw materials at one end and a completely finished product at the other. The company has been very secretive about its ultracapacitor technology; not surprising since many industry experts are predicting that ceramic batteries will be the doom of the ozone destroying combustion engine. 

Lockheed Martin, the world’s leading defense contractor, has partnered with EEStor for exclusive rights to market and incorporate their ultracapacitors for military and homeland defense applications.  The two companies look to complete joint product testing over the course of 2008. 

Along with Lockheed Martin, other powerful partners include electric vehicle maker Zenn Motor and Silicon Valley’s Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, & Byers.  EEStor announced in July that 3^rd party validation was complete on all procedures, equipment, and techniques, a critical step closer to production.  The firm expects their ground breaking ultracapacitors to provide 10 times the energy of traditional lead batteries at 10% of the weight and just half the cost.  If this new electric storage device does everything the company predicts practical electrical cars can easily become the reality.