Sentences with phrase «cost than batteries»

This method is also considered to be lower in cost than batteries, as well as having possibilities for noise reduction and the potential to eliminate the need for cooling mechanisms.

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«How could we build this machine to be much more cost - effective than [past] battery - swap efforts?»

A battery required to power an Accord would cost more than $ 20,000, Khurram says.

The new power sources shouldn't cost much more per car than the current acid - lead batteries.

Musk's premise is that economies of scale, technological advances, and efficiencies at the new plant will cut battery costs by more than 30 %, providing a chunk of the savings needed to sell a Tesla for $ 35,000.

But that doesn't amount to much if labour costs are less than 13 % of total costs, which Brodd and Helou say is the case for lithium battery manufacturers in the U.S.

The main snafus are with the new type of battery the company is building in order to cost - effectively produce the Model 3, which at around $ 35,000 has a much lower price tag than Tesla's Model S and Model X.

By the end of the first year of volume production of our mass market vehicle, we expect the Gigafactory will have driven down the per kWh cost of our battery pack by more than 30 percent.

The Gigafactory is designed to reduce cell costs much faster than the status quo and, by 2020, produce more lithium ion batteries annually than were produced worldwide in 2013.

As we at Tesla reach for our goal of producing a mass market electric car in approximately three years, we have an opportunity to leverage our projected demand for lithium ion batteries to reduce their cost faster than previously thought possible.

It's a bit pricier — but it's got a heftier battery pack and some neat additional features that more than make up for the additional cost.

Supporting Tesla's automotive and energy products is Gigafactory 1 — a facility designed to significantly reduce battery cell costs and, by 2018, produce more lithium - ion batteries annually than were produced worldwide in 2013.

What potential gains Tesla might realize on battery cost via a well executed Tesla Energy launch can more than be given back through higher labor cost.

The tech giant is trying to profit from its battery replacement initiative by pointing to smallest flaws in the iPhone and making owners pay more than what a battery replacement would have cost.

«By the time you replace the batteries, every year like you should, you have more than offset the initial cost,» Sweet said.

Reducing the cost of reasonably good batteries might actually prove more important than improving their energy density, says Jeff Dahn of the University of Dalhousie in Nova Scotia, Canada.

They showed that not only does it hold more energy than a conventional flow battery, but the cost of the quinone battery is much lower than other flow batteries — less than $ 27 per kilowatt - hour of energy stored, compared with $ 81.

«That's the case for photovoltaics, but for wind farms, the energetic cost of curtailment is much lower than it is for batteries.

An added benefit, Sadoway notes, is that lead is also much cheaper than antimony, so adding large amounts of lead will likely reduce the battery's overall cost.

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

Today they constitute less than 1 percent of all rolling stock on the road globally, but multiple innovations in features such as the battery's cost and lifetime have made prices so competitive that Tesla has more than 400,000 advance orders for its $ 35,000 Model 3, which is slated to hit the road in the middle of 2018.

Downsizing silicon to the nanoscale has been shown to reduce this problem, and by combining an abundant and relatively pure form of silicon dioxide and a low - cost chemical reaction, the researchers created lithium - ion half - cell batteries that store almost four times more energy than conventional graphite anodes.

By producing electricity from the organic matter in wastewater, a new microbial battery may more than cover the costs of water purification.

Wessells noted that the battery is very stable, its materials are abundant, its overall cost is competitive with conventional lead - acid batteries, and it has a lesser environmental footprint than conventional batteries.

Energy storage system owners could see significant savings from a new flow battery technology that is projected to cost 60 percent less than today's standard flow batteries.

«Moving from transition metal elements to synthesized molecules is a significant advancement because it links battery costs to manufacturing rather than commodity metals pricing» said Imre Gyuk, energy storage program manager for the Department of Energy's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (OE), which funded this research.

IBM projects that it could, within the next decade, enable a handheld device such as an mp3 player to store about 500,000 songs or 3,500 movies — 100 times more than is possible today — without increasing the device's cost or decreasing battery life.

A recent Carnegie Mellon University study suggests that hybrid plug - in vehicles would be more expensive over a lifetime of use than comparable gas - powered cars due to the battery's hefty cost.

For years, scientists have considered sodium - ion batteries a safer and lower - cost candidate for large - scale energy storage than lithium - ion.

The bricklike gizmo cost $ 3,995, weighed more than a pound and a half, and drained its battery in an hour.

If lithium cobalt oxide were used in a battery giving a 400 - kilometre driving range, the cobalt alone would cost more than $ 5000.

In comparison, storing that much electricity with today's cheapest batteries would likely cost more than a trillion dollars, although prices are falling.

Sodium - ion batteries combine low cost with high efficiency, and sodium is more abundant than both lithium and cobalt.

«Thermally regenerative batteries are a carbon - neutral way to store and convert waste heat into electricity with potentially lower cost than solid - state devices.»

Besides sulfur's natural abundance, non-toxicity and low - cost, a sulfur - based cathode is theoretically capable of delivering storage up to 10 times greater than the commonly - used lithium - cobalt oxide cathodes in conventional lithium ion batteries.

The design permits larger amounts of energy to be stored at lower cost than with traditional batteries.

«Our method would be an effective low - cost addition to a battery of tests helping to lower the false positive rate since it provides 10 % better sensitivity and specificity than any other screening method, including Pap and HPV tests,» says Huang.

Each unit, powered by an internal lithium - polymer battery, costs about $ 250 — around 10 times cheaper than its more antlike ancestors.

Batteries with multivalent cathodes (which have multiple electrons per mobile ion available for charge transfer) are promising candidates for reducing cost and achieving higher energy density than that available with current lithium - ion technology.

«Polymer foils can be produced at costs less than one US dollar and are not dependent on an external electricity source, other than a battery.»

The Chevrolet Volt's battery pack weighs 400 pounds and may cost around $ 16,000 - more than some small cars sell for today.

And it was eye - opening to hear the cost of EV batteries are coming down far faster than anyone expected — enough to trigger a tipping point.

This, he says, will take more than 10 years and require innovation to reduce the cost of Li - ion materials to less than half current levels, a 10-fold increase in the speed of production and battery recycling to extract and reuse rare metals.

However, Toyota appears most bullish on fuel - cell vehicles, which it says will cost less than a battery - electric vehicle if both are designed to provide the same driving range between fill - ups and recharges.

«The biggest obstacle facing Li - ion battery manufacturers is cost,» Samsung SDI's Jeon notes, citing the mid-1990s IT boom and the ensuing drop in costs estimated at more than 80 %.

And it was eye - opening to hear the cost of electric - vehicle batteries are coming down far faster than anyone expected.

That's an objectively good number, but it's difficult to say if it's worth the extra cost: when the plug - in battery is depleted and the Energi runs in hybrid mode, it averages 4 fewer mpg than the Hybrid, due to its 259 - pound weight penalty.

In order to achieve cost parity with an internal - combustion engine, battery costs would have to be cut by more than two - thirds and fuel costs would have to more than double today's level.

Better yet, the manufacturing cost for both this battery and the primary battery — a larger AGM unit placed underhood — is far less than the lithium - ion pack, meaning GM can bundle it with the 2014 Malibu as standard equipment on all models, including the entry - level $ 22,965 2014 Malibu LT.

The power density of the Fe battery is about 10 % less than in Li - ion batteries, he says, but the safety and much cheaper production cost make it a better choice.