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The higher energy capacity of this miniature thin - film fuel cell battery «will lead to further new classes of personal electronics, such as autonomous sensors and communication devices that are not currently possible with existing battery technologies,» Morse asserts.

China's leading electric vehicle maker BYD announced Wednesday to team with US Hybrid Corporation to develop a hydrogen fuel cells battery - electric bus.

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Last year, the company announced ambitious plans to add 20 new electric battery and fuel cell vehicles...

Battery - powered cars offered by the likes of Tesla are gaining traction faster than fuel cell vehicles backed by Hyundai and Toyota Motor Corp..

The new additions include three plug - in hybrid vehicles, which come on top of eight battery - powered cars and two fuel - cell vehicles.

This summer, it's piloting a fuel - cell unit that stores energy chemically but can convert it back into electricity on demand without wearing out, like batteries do.

They include ECD's low - cost cell for solar power; «rewritable» compact discs and DVDs; an instant - start, regenerative fuel cell currently in development; and a rechargeable nickel - hydride battery for powering hybrid - electric vehicles, which ECD is producing in a joint venture with Texaco.

And other carmakers like Toyota Motor and Honda are investing heavily in eco-friendly cars; however, they are betting big that the vehicles will be powered by hydrogen fuel cells, rather than rechargeable electric batteries.

The battery and fuel - cell stack will produce a combined range of 310 miles.

Last year, the company announced ambitious plans to add 20 new electric battery and fuel cell vehicles to its global lineup by 2023.

Where Tesla uses batteries in its powertrain technology, Phoenix - based Nikola uses hydrogen fuel cells.

Lobbyists for environmental groups and the planet's biggest automobile manufacturers are pushing the governor and legislative leaders to give tax breaks or taxpayer - funded rebates to consumers who buy zero - emissions vehicles, such as battery electric or hydrogen cell fuel cars.

A new water splitter powered by a single AAA battery could reduce the carbon pollution created from making hydrogen fuel cells, scientists report August 22 in Nature Communications.

The design and formation of an atomic - scale bridge between different materials will lead to new and improved physical properties, opening the path to new information technology and energy science applications amongst a myriad of science and engineering possibilities — for example, atoms could move faster at the interface between the materials, enabling better batteries and fuel cells.

Next steps include expanding the use of the technology to different applications, such as solar and fuel cells; and using the battery to power different kinds of electronic devices.

Once researchers understand the rules for how to get specific shapes with TZPs that also assemble into larger structures, they can design materials with desired functions — for example, a membrane for a battery, a catalyst for a fuel cell, or even a therapeutic drug.

We're moving ahead with CNG, fuel cells, plug - in hybrids and battery electrics because there is no single technology that holds the key to the world's energy future,» said Robert Bienenfeld, senior manager of environment and energy strategy for American Honda.

A near - future fuel - cell car would not be much cleaner than a well - designed battery - gasoline hybrid.

Ong, who leads the Materials Virtual Lab and is a faculty member in the Sustainable Power and Energy Center at UC San Diego, uses a combination of high - throughput calculations and machine learning to discover next - generation materials for energy applications, including batteries, fuel cells and LEDs.

Both PEM fuel cells and SOFCs, like batteries, have two electrodes separated by an ion - conducting electrolyte.

The best candidates include buckytubes in lithium ion batteries, flow cells, and hydrogen fuel cells.

It turns out they are indispensable for a range of urgently needed green energy technologies such as wind turbine generators, low - energy lighting, fuel cells, rechargeable batteries, magnetic refrigeration and hydrogen storage.

It runs on a regular battery but he envisages a fuel cell that the robots could recharge by resting on a treetop and deploying solar panels.

The new battery is based on a redox flow design — similar in design to a fuel cell, with two tanks of electroactive materials dissolved in water.

Precious metals have long been used as conducting materials in batteries and other types of fuel cells but are too expensive to use at a commercial scale in microbial fuel cells.

Materials with these novel characteristics would be useful in devices such as rechargeable batteries, sensors, gas converters and fuel cells.

With fuel cells, as with batteries, «there is still the need for substantial cost reduction,» Moniz said.

Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) recently developed a working prototype for a portable fuel cell energy source that could power a cellular phone 300 percent longer than existing rechargeable batteries do.

Whereas a battery or a fuel cell creates electricity using chemical reactions, the most basic type of capacitor employs two narrowly separated conductive plates.

A metal - air battery is a type of fuel cell or battery that uses the oxidation of a metal with oxygen from atmospheric air to produce electricity.

While they still can't store as much total energy as a fuel cell or a battery, ultracapacitors — also known as electrochemical capacitors — can supply the burst of energy needed to accelerate up a hill or around another car on the highway.

He sees a bright future for sodium - embedded carbon and the improvements it offers in solar tech, batteries, fuel cells, and supercapacitors.

The innovation is especially significant for small devices, Hunter says, because other energy - storage technologies — such as fuel cells, batteries, and flywheels — tend to be less efficient, or simply too complex to be practical when reduced to very small sizes.

Capacitors have the handy ability to store and release electrical energy very quickly — much more quickly than the batteries and fuel cells already being used in electric and hybrid - electric cars.

Unlike gasoline - powered cars, battery and fuel cell vehicles emit zero carbon when driven.

«Battery cars a better choice for reducing emissions than fuel cells.»

Many communities would be better off investing in electric vehicles that run on batteries instead of hydrogen fuel cells, in part because the hydrogen infrastructure provides few additional energy benefits for the community besides clean transportation.

«The analysis showed that to be cost competitive, fuel cell vehicles would have to be priced much lower than battery vehicles.

They compared cars that run on batteries versus hydrogen fuel cells in a hypothetical future where the cost of electric vehicles is more affordable.

The scenarios focused on 10 to 20 years in the future, when battery and fuel cell vehicles are expected to be in much wider use, and when solar power and electrolyzers are cost competitive with the electric grid.

A key question for policymakers is, which transportation technology cuts total emissions at the lowest cost — batteries or fuel cells?

The nickel - metal - hydride batteries — which kick in when the fuel cell can't keep up with demand — sit under the backseat.

Energy storage devices, such as fuel cells and rechargeable batteries, convert chemical energy into electricity through a chemical reaction.

Department of Energy national lab researchers found strain dramatically influences low - temperature oxygen electrocatalysis on perovskite oxides, enhancing bifunctional activity essential for fuel cells and metal — air batteries.

Rechargeable batteries are too heavy for the job, so engineers are planning to try a technology that would use current to separate water into oxygen and hydrogen during the day, and then reverse the process at night via fuel cells to produce electricity.

Prof. Choi and his Ph.D. student Kun Joong Kim have developed a miniaturized solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) to replace lithium - ion batteries in smartphones, laptops, drones, and other small electronic devices.

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are vying with next - generation hybrid car technology (which can be plugged in to recharge its battery rather than relying on the gasoline engine) to be the electric car of the future.

But fuel cell advocates point out that given the space available in a car frame and the laws of thermodynamics, today's batteries can only provide a limited driving range — 40 miles (65 kilometers) for GM's own Chevrolet Volt — before requiring a recharge, such as by the gasoline motor in a full hybrid like the Toyota Prius.

Artificial muscles made with carbon nanotubes or a shape memory alloy can be designed to act as fuel cells, thus alleviating a need for a remote battery power source.