Sentences with phrase «battery technologies become»

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The battery technology, critical to the success of the vehicles, has become another business line.

As tech companies push their businesses into making wearable devices like fitness bands, eyeglasses and smart watches, the limitations of battery technology have become the biggest obstacle to sales and greater profits.

Put that way, batteries become a technology of global importance, and not just to help avert dangerous climate change.

Lithium - ion batteries have become essential in everyday technology.

«As batteries and battery management technology improves, cars like this become more viable.

As more hybrids are introduced to the market, it's becoming more apparent that aerodynamics and weight reduction are almost as important as the advanced technology used in the electric drive motors and battery packs.

Meanwhile, solar and wind, in combination with improved battery technology, have become competitive with fossil fuels in many parts of the world.

• Solar power will keep getting cheaper • Batteries will continue to become more commonplace • Electric vehicles will soon become a mainstream transport option • This confluence of technologies will begin to disrupt the economics of our existing energy system

If Nissan were to produce an breakthrough in lithium - ion battery technology, it could become competitive as a «green» vehicle maker.

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At the same time, renewable energy technology is improving and becoming cheaper; regional and municipal governments are adopting limits on carbon dioxide emissions; and carmakers around the world are working to make electric cars and batteries more efficient and affordable.

In order to be heavily dependent on wind and solar power, battery storage technology must improve, become more reasonably priced, and store power closer to customers for use when renewable energy is not available.

In the far future, other novel battery technologies (e.g. zinc - air, lithium - sulphur, lithium - air) may become competitive for use in electric vehicles, and can theoretically deliver higher energy densities than lithium - ion chemistries are capable of.

And newer technologies like large - scale battery storage and production of hydrogen are becoming economic, because they harness cheap power from excess renewable capacity.

In the looming lithium squeeze, battery makers whose technologies use less of the mineral could enjoy an advantage — just as thin - film solar became the hot new thing when polysilicon shortages shook the photovoltaic industry last year.

Solar storage will become more competitive as new battery technology drives prices down, and wind storage more attractive as technical advances in areas such as composite materials enables the power generated by wind turbines to increase.

Second, research continues into different battery technologies and, as battery technologies improve and become less expensive to manufacture (much like solar modules did), prices will fall until they are accessible by homeowners everywhere.

For example, when the electric car and it battery technology have matured and become cheaper than the gasoline car, everybody and their dog will jump on the bandwagon and try to cash in.

Solar cell and battery hybrid technology could become a commercial success as long as it clears the «valley of death» out of academia, a scientist working on the project has claimed.

In a world where some of the utilities» most profitable corporate customers — from Apple to Ikea to Mars — are investing massively in their own electricity generation capacity (and imposing carbon prices on themselves); where smart home technology promises to cut bills, even for those folks who can't be bothered in programming their thermostat; where LEDs are becoming so cheap they are a no - brainer, even for the anti-environmental crowd; where solar prices keep dropping dramatically and battery - storage innovation is just ramping up, there's good reason for investors to consider alternative options to traditionally «safe» investment in utilities.

Two things that are becoming increasingly important parts of our clean technology future are improved batteries and mechanical energy harvesting devices, also known as piezoelectric devices, that can generate electricity from our everyday movements.

Indeed, both the Volt and the Provoq depend on «advances in lithium - ion battery technology to become a reality,» something that GM CEO Rick Wagoner «acknowledged as being «key» to the advance of electric vehicles.»

This new technology allows any surface to become a battery, which could lead to major advancements not just in energy storage, but in solar power generation, too.

The technology is a lot closer at hand and GM can't afford to wait until all electric battery powered or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles become practical.

The technology has become the gold - standard for batteries because it can hold a lot of energy while also remaining relatively small and lightweight.

Thanks to public investments in the United States, Germany, China, and elsewhere, solar, wind, and battery technologies have improved significantly and become cheaper over the last five years.

Battery technology has been improving somewhat, and smartphone components are becoming more power efficient, requiring less electricity to produce the same amount of performance output.

More important than the bigger batteries, the two phones feature Sony's Smart Stamina feature for extending use as well as technologies aimed at managing the long - term health of the battery that have become a standard among Xperia phones.

«The problem seems to be far more complex», a former director of the Center for Advanced Batteries at the Korea Electronics Technology Institute believes, adding «Samsung seems to have packed the Note 7 with so much innovation it became uncontrollable.»

Miller said he thinks it will take a decade for technology like solar panels and household batteries to become common enough for a truly decentralized energy market.