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Device Conduit Technologies intros new EV battery
July 20, 2007 - by Dallas Kachan, Cleantech Group
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A San Francisco-based company says it's scaling up to deliver a new, longer-lasting electric and hybrid vehicle battery pack in volume.
Device Conduit Technologies says its DCT RackPack™ Massively Intermoduled Battery (MIB) pack can finally deliver 100 to 300 mile range to electric and hybrid vehicles at affordable prices.
The pack uses large numbers of "ordinary batteries," the company said, without specifying their quantities or chemistries, in "new energy containers managed wirelessly so that your car can talk to you and administrate your vehicle, home and portable power."
DCT says it has two issued patents and two patents pending.
“This is a breakthrough solution combining off the shelf systems in a novel manner and adding never-before-seen new invention to solve the last challenge of the EV opportunity,” said Gray Holland, industrial design chief and former co-lead industrial designer of the GM EV1 electric car.
DCT says its team includes personnel from many well-known technology, defense and entertainment companies, as well as former Federal and California state government officials.
The company says it is in discussions with two vehicle customers and other interested parties.
A future version of the system is designed to be sold at national auto stores and is to be user-installable.
DCT is a spin-off of Clever Industries, a San Francisco-based technology incubator in business since 1978.
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Device Conduit Technologies "Product"
Submitted on July 21st, 2007 by InterestedReaderI've tried to find information on this company. Talk about vaporware! The web site does not even pop up on Yahoo or Google searches. I did find a Google news link saying they are going to sell a $3000 electric car and have offered to "drive the car off a medium size cliff" to demonstrate the safety of the car. The news article said most of the "Factory Resources" for the car have been established, but the web site:
http://www.deviceconduit.com
does not even mention the car. Seriously though, you must go to the web site for a good laugh. The description of their patents and how I can use batteries from K-Mart to recharge my electric car without an extension cord are two of my favorite parts!
As Billy Joel said...
Submitted on July 21st, 2007 by Dallas Kachan"You may be wrong, but you may be right."
-Glass Houses, 1980
No, DCT doesn't have a very good web site. And its product isn't available yet, as referenced in our brief, above.
But that's not to say it couldn't have real, legitimate products and a lousy web site. After all, the web does not constitute reality (shocking!)
Heck knows it wouldn't be the first company in this industry to have a poor web site, or struggle valiantly to describe its products or services in non-engineering terms that we, the unwashed, could actually understand.
That said, you may be wrong... but you may be right.
DCT Intros? New Battery
Submitted on July 21st, 2007 by InterestedReaderJust a follow up comment. The title of the article is "Device Conduit Technologies intros new EV battery". According to the web site, no product of any type has been introduced. Let's watch our headlines please and keep Insidegreentech the fine publication it's always been.
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