LightEV's & EESTOR

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LightEV's & EESTOR

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Light Electric Vehicles Company
P.O. Box 1316, Eugene, OR 97440-1316, USA
Phone: 541-915-7207; E-mail: admin [at] lightevs.com

To all of you who have expressed interest in EEStor™ and LightEVs™:
We have been receiving an almost overwhelming response to our recent press release. For those of you who have questions, we hope you will understand if we don’t get back to you as soon as you would like. Also, please understand that we might not be at liberty to answer all of your questions about EEStor and their technology. Based on our investigation of EEStor’s progress, we saw, and continue to see, an outstanding opportunity. For the time being, we will be responding primarily to prospective business inquiries only. Thank you for your great response, interest, and patience.

PRESS RELEASE — September 24, 2008
Eugene, Oregon — Light Electric Vehicles Company (LightEVs™) announces the signing of a world-wide Exclusive Technology Agreement with EEStor, Inc. of Cedar Park, Texas to provide electric vehicles and propulsion systems using EEStor’s Electric Energy Storage Units (EESUs) for the two- and three-wheeled vehicles markets. Carl Watkins, President of LightEVs, said, “We are extremely happy to reach an agreement with EEStor to provide its new battery technology to the bicycle, scooter and motorcycle markets of the world. We have watched EEStor continue to make progress in proving their ability to produce ultra-high performance multilayered barium titanate ceramic capacitors in production quantities. They have met or exceeded each of their technology milestones, as verified by outside laboratories, and the remaining steps all utilize well established industry techniques.” EEStor’s EESUs are expected to be highly configurable for shape, size, and power, and offer a breakthrough level of performance and price compared to existing battery technologies, including lithium iron phosphate.

EEStor EESUs are expected to provide over 450 watt hours per kilogram and over 700 watt hours per liter, charge in minutes, and, for all practical vehicular purposes, last indefinitely. By comparison, lithium iron phosphate batteries provide about 100 watt hours per kilogram and 170 watt hours per liter. Unlike electrochemical batteries, EESUs should not break down from use or time during the life of a vehicle. They are expected to deliver high current without loss of efficiency or excess heat, and they should operate at optimum efficiency over a wide range of ambient temperatures. They will be configurable for any output voltage that optimizes vehicle performance, and will maintain that output voltage at a constant level over the span of each discharge cycle. Production is expected to start mid 2009.

LightEVs expects to offer a variety of electric propulsion systems for use in electric bicycles, scooters, motorcycles, and three-wheeled vehicles in partnership with existing manufacturers and under its own brands. John Stephens, Executive Vice President, said, “We expect to be able to provide performance characteristics exceeding those of existing light electric and gasoline powered vehicles. For example, we are planning an electric bicycle that will have a one kilowatt-hour EESU weighing less than five pounds which should provide approximately 100 miles or more of range, and we are considering a three-wheel two-passenger electric vehicle which could offer EESU options permitting ranges from about 120 miles to over 500 miles on a single charge, and a top speed of over 85 mph.”

The light electric vehicle category is the largest established electric vehicle market in the world, with an estimated 20 million units sold per year. Some countries are seeing a 50% increase in sales of electric bikes and scooters per year. Light electric vehicles provide advantages in cost of purchase and operation, faster charge time, parking availability, reduced traffic congestion, and storage.

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Yawn..... I talked with one of the sales reps for zenn at hybridfest who is supposedly licensing these units and will be putting them in their car one year in the future from the time you ask them when they will be here. For the last 4 years it's always been "it's coming next year."

I've stopped paying attention to claims on paper, it's a complete waste of time. If they have nothing to sell or show to the public than they have nothing. Scientific fact and progress is made this way, not by releasing shady e-docs on random news websites. Nicola tesla didn't hide his induction motor that changed the world and keep delaying it's introduction. It's that simple. 99.99 percent of companies who claim to have revolutionary products, fade away into the abyss of forgotten shell companies built to scam investors.

Remember the methanol fuel cell for cell phones back in 04 that was supposed to be out last year? Remember the ballard fuel cell ready for commercial market by 2010? LOL! What happened there? Congress is throwing away our tax dollars funding this stuff. It's astonishing that nobody has answered the question "where you gonna get the hydrogen from?" and people still buy it.

To be honest, I don't think our culture is smart enough to have someone like tesla living in it anymore for a revolutionary idea or thing to be invented.

If you're interested in finding revolutionary ideas, You won't find them in america anymore.
You might want to try germany or france. Google ITER for a start.

Bruce

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