Cool Technologies Inc (WARM)

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I dug into the Panasonic guy's background a bit more . My guess from looking at his background is that he was there due to a connection with Innova. The question now is was the comment because he sees a use for the tech or because he generally gives positive kudos to associates and friend's of associate's that agree with his vision.

He is a big player in the internet of things push with a focus on intelligent mobility, and he has connections to Ford and the military. Here is an interesting slide show that he co-presented with an IBM (https://www.slideshare.net/SebastianWedeniwski/ibm-panasonic-the-internet-of-mobility-cognitive-personalization-of-spaces-and-devices).

A blurb about him.
Hakan Kostepen is an "Executive" Director at Panasonic Silicon Valley Center in Cupertino, CA and responsible for Product Planning Strategy & Innovation for Panasonic Automotive Systems Company of America. Panasonic Automotive "Global" Product Planning Strategy & Innovation group leads in car integration and development of all Panasonic Company domain company technologies and products for automotive OEM customers and end consumers. Mr. Kostepen has broad Systems Engineering and Advanced Product Development experience with Panasonic, Automotive Systems, Ford Motor Company, Visteon, EDS, and US Air Force. Along with various Automotive "Real Time" Embedded Systems Applications and Advanced Automotive Infotainment Systems Software Development.

Focus areas mentioned in the slides are the Vehicle and Fleet Management (IBM thrust area) and Self healing (analytics and prognostics for service and maintenance). In thinking about how this folds into CoolTech's technology we need to consider Innova's involvement. Recall Innova believes CoolTech's mobile generation is helpful in ensuring electric cars maintain their charge. I can see that to fully optimize self-driving car efficiency (until there are charging stations on every corner) it would be beneficial to be able to strategically plan vehicle charging to maximize efficiency. Software could examine existing locations of cars, planned future routes, existing charge, etc and plan a recharging event with either having the cars returning to a charging location or sending a CoolTech truck out to keep the car moving. The method selected would be which ever will keep the system humming along to maximize revenue.

All that is cool, but I can't see it resulting in sales in the near-term beyond a one or two off purchase to supply a test bed area with connected mobility capability (like the university Innova project which supposedly one day will by 3 or 4 trucks). A world of mostly self-driving vehicles is years away.

Off topic, I just have to repeat how ideal this technology is for the military. I will be very disappointed if they pass it up. And not just to increase safety in the combat field. Deaths and injuries during stateside training exercises and routine movement of equipment are common. I'm hoping for not only a purchase, but a contract to fund CoolTech to develop mobile generators with higher power ratings. I think that is on CoolTech's white board, but they keep waffling about whether then can reach 400KVA. I think a military contract to get it to higher power levels could be possible. The higher power levels could be helpful for not only supplying general electric loads, but perhaps power weapons or providing power that support weapons.