Ultracap powered electric vehicles.

[IronHead]

I missed your calculations . Sorry I did not catch it for ya.
I have not done 48 volts in caps yet only the 12 volt system in the MotorHome
They have eliminated all the serging I was getting before I installed them in the Buss.
For a scooter it is bottom end torque I am looking for and not long run time . Caps over battery's are a must. This also helps keeps the battery in good shape taking the hard hot amps off the caps in hole shots and such.

They are about 5.5" x2.250"

[Topguner]

What do you think about taking a used Hybrid like a Toyota Prius and making it run on these? What I mean is to make the vehicle run off the ultracaps in EV mode and maybe never having to use the ICE. I know there are companies that convert regular Hybrids to "Plug-In-Hybrids" but I don't think any of them are using caps.

[IronHead]

I dont believe you could run a car on  ultracaps caps alone . Maybe the new ceramic stuff but they are not out yet.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7033406.PN.&OS=PN/7033406&RS=PN/7033406

[Topguner]

I have been watching that copmany (Eestor) and waiting for some news. Hope their product lives up to all the claims.

[buzneg]

I've been evaluating EV's too. This I just posted on the steorn forum

""I'll show you my calculations, which are based on some numbers found on the interweb.

Zinc air Fuel cell - 200wh/kg - 100mi range = 48.38kWh's needed - 242kg or 535.7lbs of storage.
200mi range = 96.76kWh's needed - 483.8kg or 1071.4lbs of storage.

EEstor - 350wh/kg - 200mi range = 276.5kg or 609.6lbs of storage needed.

using 483.8W taken to travel 1mi. Recharge times don't matter much, just lift the storage pack out, and replace it with a charged one.

EV energy cost per mile is about 1 5th the cost of gasoline energy per mile. With the rist of peak oil, or war with Iran looming! ""

I think everyone is missing the potentail of zinc air fuel cells here. They're not as good as eestor's but they're over half as good. Over twice as good as the best batteries. I think the best batteries have a 80wh/kg of storage.

www.poweraircorp.com

The other companies that make these are mostly asian. They're websites make them less easy to trust then powerair's. But look at what their cliaming, www.evionyx.com/scooters.htm 500wh/kg! that's much better then eestor's. Powerair is trustworthy though, they have managment that left Ballard, the largest hydrogen full cell company in the world. They also got a former CEO of a muti billion dollar car company in the US to come out of retirement to be their CEO, he's now a consultant though. I researched them when I researched energy stocks, no I don't own any stocks in them, I'm not trying to pump, they're a bad buy anyways, never buy an OTC stock, or any USA exchange penny stock, scamers sell shares on those markets, and never deliever them, their counterfiet shares, which block these small companies from investment.

More
http://www.arotech.com/pr/2006/pr22032006.shtml
http://www.powerzinc.com/en/index-2-c1.html
http://www.electric-fuel.com/evtech/index.shtml