Sentences with phrase «battery technologies make»

The breathtaking pace of advances in wind, solar and battery technologies make it clear that the age of fossil fuels will end in this century.

Ground - breaking technology, health monitoring apps, a stylish and easy user interface, and long - lasting battery technology make this watch a great choice!

When Audi went back to the drawing board under then - newly promoted chief Ulrich Hackenberg, upgrades to battery technology made the R8 e-tron more viable.

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Smartphone and tablet battery technology is adequate for making calls, sending texts, checking social media and playing games, but all of these activities simultaneously can drain a battery by noon.

There are man - made leaves, self - healing materials and materials including Graphene that could make current battery technology obsolete.

Subiaco - based Lithex Resources will make a second attempt at a backdoor listing, announcing plans to acquire an Israel - based battery technology company in a deal worth $ 28.7 million.

What makes the Stick - N - Find practical is a new radio technology known as Bluetooth Low Energy, which drastically reduces the battery power needed to send out a signal.

However, the 7 kWh battery does make economic sense in certain markets overseas, particularly in Germany and Australia because of tariffs and the electricity - rate structures in those countries, said Tesla co-founder and Chief Technology Officer JB Straubel.

However a rapid fall in lithium ion battery prices over the past two years — driven by the proliferation of electric cars — has made the technology far more viable.

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.

Nano One Materials Corp. (TSXV: N NO) has captured the imagination of investors with a disruptive technology that can short - cut the traditional way of making cathode material used in lithium - ion batteries and ultimately improve their performance.

Arming sideline personnel (especially a certified athletic trainer) with new, cutting edge tools and technology, including impact sensors to track hits and alert sideline personnel to those which might result in concussion or brain trauma from an accumulation of sub-concussive blows, and a battery of quick and reliable sideline assessment tests to make «remove from play» decisions;

It is difficult to find fault with this phone though, just as with all modern smartphones running so many apps, battery life is an issue and will remain so until significant advances are made in battery technology.

If you are too tempted to grab your phone, make feeding time your time to charge your battery or just give yourself a rest from technology.

That's because of the eco-drive technology, which makes it possible for this watch to run on light instead of batteries.

Although 3 - D technology sans specs is available for small screens on smartphones and portable gaming devices, these devices use backlit LCDs, which can be a big battery drain and limits how small the gadgets can be made.

Almost immediately after publishing the earlier research on the flow battery, Chiang says, «We realized that a better way to make use of this flowable electrode technology was to reinvent the [lithium ion] manufacturing process.»

Making a flying object so light that it can accommodate its own battery and actually perform useful work was an incredibly difficult problem to solve — yet that technology now exists, Goodchild said.

«As far as we can tell, our technologies with both the silicon anode and sulfur cathode are among the most cost - effective solutions and therefore show promise for commercialization to make the next - generation of lithium - ion batteries to power portable electronics and electric vehicles,» said USC Viterbi graduate student Rong.

A key assumption is that technology breakthroughs can be made in solar, nuclear, wind and geothermal power, as well as in carbon capture and sequestration and electric vehicle batteries.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists David Bradwell and Donald Sadoway were funded to build a «pizza box» — size version of their liquid - metal battery — based loosely on the electricity - intensive process of making aluminum — that could enable the cheap storage of megawatts of electricity from intermittent resources such as the sun and wind.

The Subsonic Ultra Green Aircraft Research (SUGAR) project identified hybrid technology as a clear winning concept for subsonic aircraft, as long as battery technology can be improved to make the planes commercially viable

«How to prevent fires in next - generation lithium batteries: Adding chemicals could make future battery technology safer.»

The days of a battery - powered exosuit for high - performance runners are still beyond the horizon, as the actuator unit (including motors, electronics, and power supply) in this study was off - board, but the authors say technology is moving toward making an untethered assistive exosuit possible in the near future.

One, A123 Systems in Watertown, Mass., is a three - year - old firm that builds batteries that use electrodes made from nanostructured iron phosphates, an innovation developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), according to Whittingham.

But Ceder says whether or not this technology actually makes it inside a battery is beside the point; the researchers have opened new possibilities for the design of cathodes, which is even more important.

These advantages make lithium - ion batteries a key technology for electromobility.

This work, he said, resulted in the most precise and controlled measurements of these interactions ever made, «and will allow scientists to learn new things about the interplay of atoms and molecules with a carbon surface,» important for improving technologies including batteries, electrodes and air filters.

Grove certainly made no attempt to turn his gas battery into an economic device, but like many Victorians he was fond of looking into the future and putting his technologies there.

Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A * STAR) researchers have demonstrated that electrodes made from tellurium can improve the energy storage and power output of rechargeable lithium - ion batteries [1].

This year's list includes autonomous vehicles, blockchain (the technology behind BitCoin), next - generation batteries and a number of other technologies that are beginning to make their mark.

In the spring 2017 issue, meet the people who work round the clock at Argonne's giant synchrotron, using X-rays to tease out the secrets of everything from volcanic glass to batteries to bacterial machinery — as well as engineers who travel the world to make reactors safer, physicists who collect model ships, and scientists inventing materials for the next technology breakthroughs.

Apple could even, thanks to the new technology, make more radical changes to the overall design of the iphone, because its engineers would no longer to base their work on a fixed battery shape.

Much of the technology behind the extended long take had to be specially made for the shoot — the ultralight steadicam rig, the ultrahigh capacity battery packs, etc — yet, what makes the film such a magnificent technical achievement is it's incredible organization of bodies throughout the hour and half exploration.

We'll have to wait until we get to have a go to see if these upgrades make the i3s any more fun to drive than the standard i3, but with the increased popularity of electric cars and the advancement in battery technology, this might be the first look at what we can expect from a hot hatch of the future.

Pushing the boundaries of high - performance technology today means something very different from what that original car embodied, so the formula for the New Sports eXperience is considerably different in the 2017 Acura NSX: The basics include a hybrid powertrain made up of three electric motors, a lithium - ion battery pack, a mid-mounted twin - turbocharged V - 6 engine and a dual - clutch nine - speed automatic transmission.

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The official strategy sees these grants helping to accelerate technology development and reduce the cost of high - tech batteries, with the ultimate goal of making hybrid - electric and pure electric vehicles more affordable, thereby stimulating their demand at the retail level.

Audi says new lithium battery technology that makes the R8 feasible features an alternative chemical process and, it is claimed, results in greater energy density than the original 48.6 - kWh unit.

Not only will it feature an evolution of the incredibly bold design language first seen with the show - stopping «Vision Concept», the SUV will be built around near - future technologies, such as its advanced Battery Electric drivetrain, making the Lagonda SUV the first of its kind: an ultra-stylish, supremely luxurious, fully electric emission - free vehicle.

He said BMW's fifth - generation of storage and battery technology will extend the driving range of EVs, making e-mobility attractive for longer distances.

Source: Buick Enspire All - Electric Concept SUV Debuts in China Sculptural beauty meets advanced battery electric technology in Chinese concept SUV WUZHEN, China — The Buick Enspire all - electric concept SUV, an exploration of Buick's bold design ideas and innovative technologies for future mobility, made its global debut in China.

KULR Technology has reached agreement with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to be the exclusive manufacturing and distribution partner for the patented Internal Short Circuit (ISC) device which causes predictable battery cell failures in lithium - ion batteries, making them easier to study and, therefore, safer.

Modern HEVs make use of efficiency - improving technologies such as regenerative braking, which converts the vehicle's kinetic energy into electric energy to charge the battery, rather than wasting it as heat energy as conventional brakes do.

Despite any real advance in battery technology to make electric cars proper competition for ICE cars, car makers are diving headlong in to new EVs as diesel starts to lose its glow -LSB-...]

This trio, made up of Porsche's new Cayenne S Hybrid SUV with parallel full - hybrid drive, the 911 GT3 R Hybrid race car with electric drive on the front axle and a flywheel mass battery, and the two - seater high - performance 918 Spyder mid-engined sports car with plug - in hybrid technology, clearly demonstrates not only the great bandwidth of this new drive technology, but also the innovative power of Porsche as a genuine pioneer in hybrid drive.

Using Nissan's LEAF - To - Home ™ vehicle - to - home technology, the battery makes it possible to store surplus solar power during the daytime and then use it to help power the home in the evening.

The 2014 Sonata Hybrid also comes with Hyundai's Hybrid Lifetime Battery Warranty, which stems from Hyundai's philosophy to make advanced technology accessible across a wide customer base.

Nissan's release makes no mention of new technology at work here, so it appears that this is just a 27 - percent bigger version of the same advanced lithium ion battery as before.

The hybrid drivetrain makes extensive use of the battery technology that was developed for the Nissan Leaf.