Talk:ZENN

ZENN Ownership

A recent article from AFP Canada puts brakes on electric vehicles seems to have caused a lot of confusion about the ownership and location of ZENN Motors Inc. The article contains the following paragraphs.

"We found Transport Canada to be very hostile towards low speed electric vehicles," echoed Danny Epp of Dynasty Electric Car in an email to AFP.

The Canadian company was recently sold to a Pakistani group which plans to move production to Karachi and continue exporting its vehicles to the United States.

Unfortunately the article also mentions ZENN Motors but as can be seen in the above quote, the company being moved to Karachi is Dynasty Electric Car, not ZENN Motors Inc. Also the fact that ZENN Motors is still listed on the Canadian exchange (symbol ZNN) certainly implies that no one has bought it.
tvillars (talk) 01:36, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

EESTOR

"The Company maintains a low profile, but others in the automotive and CleanTech communities are calling their storage technology ‘game changing’. Such a breakthrough has the potential to transform the energy sector and the automobile industry in particular."

This statement is unsourced. In addition, it is hype. EESTOR appears to be a scam. They have made extravagant claims about the ability to store 52KWh in a 400# package, but have demonstrated no prototype. They claim they are waiting for funding to go to production, but they have been waiting for two years. If you actually have game-changing technology that works, you disclose your patent app, show one unit that works, and if it does, the VCs will swarm you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.112.75.239 (talk) 18:43, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

Three technology experts hired by potential investors to investigate EEStor's technology have stated "it's not possible", "extremely unlikely that it's possible", "there's extreme skepticism", "there's nothing there", "it's ridiculous thinking", "it's beyond science fiction", and "I'm surprised that Kleiner has put money into it". Ywaz (talk) 18:30, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Why is there so much material about EESTOR in this article? Given that it seems speculative at this point, surely a passing mention is sufficient? LeContexte (talk) 00:58, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

References

Household outlet?

Also according to Ian Clifford a normal household outlet with 110 volt supply can fully charge the EESTor powered CityZENN in 4 hours [...] and a normal household outlet with 220 volt supply can fully charge the EESTor powered CityZENN in 3-6 min [...]. To transmit 52 kWh in 4 hours you need a 13 kW power outlet. To transmit 52 kWh in 3 minutes you need a 1 megawatt power outlet. If these are "normal household outlets" to Mr Clifford I know why California is short on energy.--87.162.4.197 (talk) 12:15, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

120 X 15 = 1800 watts, a typical hair dryer has this written on it. 240 volts X 30 amps = 7200 watts max is possible, but to my knowledge the batteries can not charge at that high an amperage. Are you saying you drive your vehicle 24 out of 24 hours in a day?--Mark v1.0 (talk) 17:02, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Putting A Table In '08??

Hi, I heard Zennwiki decided to use an old table of the past before the popularity of Infobox Automobile? For adding, tables are much harder than Infobox Automobiles nowadays. -- Bull-Doser (talk) 00:05, 23 September 2010 (UTC)