Battery-like Device Could Power Cars

[ZL-1]

Battery-like Device Could Power Cars
By Grant Slater, Associated Press
posted: 07 September 2007 12:59 pm ET

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Millions of inventions pass quietly through the U.S. patent office each year. Patent No. 7,033,406 did, too, until energy insiders spotted six words in the filing that sounded like a death knell for the internal combustion engine.
An Austin-based startup called EEStor promised "technologies for replacement of electrochemical batteries,'' meaning a motorist could plug in a car for five minutes and drive 500 miles roundtrip between Dallas and Houston without gasoline.

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[thegriffon]

Not with a domestic power outlet you couldn't.