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A hybrid tank poised to strike a Prius. Not exactly the image I expected to find at the EDTA Conference this week, but that's that I found. I also tried to find more information from the Ian Clifford, CEO of ZENN Motor Company, because he knows something everyone in the electric car world is buzzing about: the secret ultracapacitor from EESTOR that is being hyped as the most amazing breakthrough in energy storage for vehicle use since, well, forever. Didn't get him to reveal all the secrets, but at least we know a little bit more now than we did before. An electric car that rivals an ICE for just $1,000 cost increase? Man, that does sound good. Oh, and we've got an inside glimpse of the Wagoner/activist incident, if you're not sick of that yet.

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Alternative-fuel engines of different sorts all suffer from one major drawback or another: poor range, hard-to-find filling stations, high cost, poor performance. EEStore is out to change all that with a revolutionary new kind of "battery". We put "battery" in quotation marks because the unit doesn't store power in a chemical capsule like a conventional battery, but instead uses some kind of glass- and aluminum-coated ceramics. The inventors are understandably tight-lipped on the way their creation works, but they're adamant it could completely replace the internal combustion engine.

Feel Good Cars, the Toronto company responsible for the ZENN, wants to get the unit on the road by 2008. The most significant benefit would be its efficiency: a car powered by the EEStor unit could run on the equivalent of 45 cents per gallon, driving 500 miles on $9 worth of electricity after just five minutes to charge.

We could tell you this invention could be the fix for our addiction to foreign oil, but that's scary talk for gear-heads. So we'll tell you about the performance instead. The company's CEO insists that "a four-passenger sedan will drive like a Ferrari". That's a tall order, but if he's right, the prancing horse could find itself grazing on greener pastures.

(Thanks to Robert for the tip!)

[Source: CNN]

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