This is a big win for the stealthy cedar park texas based battery maker founded in 2001.
Eestor ceramic battery.
Eestor the much talked about ceramic battery maker has signed an exclusive international rights agreement with military industrial giant lockheed martin to integrate eestor s electric energy storage units eesus into military applications.
That led to eestor s ceramic technology based on a composition modified barium titanate cmbt material that can make capacitors and supercapacitors that handle higher voltages in smaller packages.
Does anyone have knowledge of this battery and the company out of austin texas or is it all hype.
A new company called eestor is working on a ceramic device don t call it a battery that will deliver a range of 500 miles on 9 worth of power which equals about 60 worth of gasoline at.
Although eestor is still operating in a sort of stealth mode a patent issued in april for the device indicates that it s made of a ceramic powder.
The company claims the device stores more energy than lithium ion batteries at a lower cost than lead acid batteries used in gasoline powered cars.
In 2006 eestor was ready to start the commercial aspects with pilot production and did a deal with a canadian electric car startup.