Sentences with phrase «fuel cells costs»

The biggest hurdle is cost: At present, electricity from fuel cells costs four times more than the juice from your wall outlet.

This new novel cathode material enables the fuel cell designers have more flexible choices on the materials of fuel cell components, which leads to the lower fuel cell cost and, finally, to the step closer to the highly efficient and reliable fuel cells.

These research and development efforts have helped reduce automotive fuel cell costs by more than 50 % since 2006.

These new catalysts offer the promise of substantially reducing the fuel cell cost.

The Daihatsu FC ShoCase is believed to be the first fuel - cell vehicle to employ the auto maker's hydrazine - hydrate technology, which, according to researchers, has potential to substantially reduce fuel cell costs by virtually eliminating platinum and other precious metals in the electrode catalyst.

As long as fuel cell costs exceed that of batteries, there is a clear advantage to decreasing the fuel cell size and increasing the onboard hybrid battery.

Not exact matches

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.

Hydrogen could be an excellent alternative to internal combustion engines, but the cost of hydrogen fuel cells have so far prevented a breakthrough

Developers are exploring novel approaches, including the Exxon and Fuel Cell Energy partnership and the Exelon - supported NET Power project, that have the potential to reduce costs still further.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Judy Patrick of the Daily Gazette about GE's newest startup, a fuel cell business that will operate from the Saratoga Technology and Energy Park in Malta and the high cost of school supplies.

Despite decades of research, hydrogen fuel cells have failed to replace combustion engines in cars, thanks in large part to the cost of their platinum catalysts, says Signe Kjelstrup at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo.

Department of Energy research has helped drive down the cost of automotive fuel cells by 80 percent.

«Graphene's bonding effect on platinum nanoparticles characterized: Lower costs in fuel cell production?.»

While displaying this behavior, the bonded platinum nanoparticles maintain an effective surface area functioning as a catalyst for chemical reactions, a discovery that could lower the production costs of platinum - catalyzed fuel cells.

For instance, she said that advanced fuel cell technology is of special interest in a country — and a continent — where underdeveloped infrastructure keeps some people from having «cost - effective, accessible, and easily deployed» energy sources.

Research led by Sandia National Laboratories and the University of California, Merced aim at bringing down the cost of hydrogen fuel cells by using a dirt - cheap compound to create an uneven surface that resembles a plant's leaves.

According to Nihar Patel, vice president of North American business strategy for Toyota, the company has reduced the cost of the fuel - cell powertrain by 95 percent since it started testing fuel - cell vehicles on U.S. roads in 2002.

Despite decades of improvements to solar cells, the electricity they produce still costs up to 10 times more than that from fossil fuels.

The same approach has been applied to the fuel cell, where a new converter triples system voltage from the cell to the electric motor, saving weight, space and cost.

A simple, low - cost and eco-friendly method of creating nitrogen - doped graphene nanoplatelets (NGnPs), which could be used in dye - sensitized solar cells and fuel cells, is published in Scientific Reports today.

The auto industry has already brought the cost of fuel - cell technology down dramatically over the last two decades.

Chemist Bjorn Winther - Jensen of Monash University in Australia and his colleagues addressed that problem by developing new electrodes for fuel cells made from a special conducting polymer, that costs around $ 57 per counce.

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

He also hinted that DOE could launch a new manufacturing innovation institute that would help to further reduce the cost of fuel cells.

«Superior hydrogen catalyst just grows that way: Project aim at reducing cost of hydrogen fuel cells.»

A downside of fuel cells, however, is that they have a capital cost in the thousands of dollars per kilowatt of capacity, and the round - trip efficiency through the electrolyzer to the fuel cell and then back into current is less than 50 percent — meaning that for every two kilowatt - hours put in the bank, only one comes back out again.

I was not pleased to see, once again, that hydrogen is linked only with fuel - cell technology, which is «many years away» from mass production and costs several times as much as internal combustion technology.

But these fuel cells require an electrocatalyst — a platinum surface — to increase the reaction rate, and the cost of the precious metal makes it hard for hydrogen fuel cells to compete economically with the internal combustion engine.

Unfortunately, Bloom Boxes use a traditional ceramic fuel - cell design that tends to be relatively expensive to operate, a competitive disadvantage that Bloom hopes to address with a new, lower - cost power - leasing program.

«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?

A raft of laboratories and businesses, however, are determined to cut costs by replacing one of the most expensive components in the fuel cells: the catalyst.

But so is the cost of any method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions enough to make a similar difference — whether it's doubling the fuel efficiency of every single car and truck on the road (which would cost a few trillion dollars and take at least 15 years) or building scores of new wind turbines for each turbine already turning today or erecting hundreds of new solar cell arrays for every array in use today.

Should the market demands for hydrogen fuel increase with the introduction of fuel cell electric vehicles, the U.S. will need to produce and store large amounts of cost - effective hydrogen from domestic energy sources, such as natural gas, solar and wind, said Daniel Dedrick, Sandia hydrogen program manager.

He added that using solar cells and abundantly available elements to split water into hydrogen and oxygen has enormous potential for reducing the cost of hydrogen production and that the approach could eventually replace the current method, which relies on fossil fuels.

The researchers hope their new paper encourages others to pursue TPV improvements — including fabrication of TPV cells on reusable substrates — that could lead to development of real - world systems at costs competitive with fossil fuels.

Cost - effective applications for fuel cells have been identified for material handling equipment, as well as primary and backup power for data centers and telecommunication systems, he said.

Two main hurdles stand in the way of mass production and widespread consumer adoption of hydrogen «fuel cell» vehicles: the still high cost of producing fuel cells, and the lack of a hydrogen refueling network.

Reining in manufacturing costs of fuel cell vehicles is the first major issue the automakers are addressing.

Toyota hopes to reduce its costs per fuel cell vehicle to around $ 50,000 by 2015, which would make such cars economically viable in the marketplace.

Although solar cell technology for converting the sun's power into electricity has improved steadily in recent years, high costs and inefficiencies have kept it from being a serious replacement for fossil fuels.

Daimler won't reveal exactly how much the B - Class F - CELL costs, but industry analysts generally say a fuel cell car costs about $ 100,000 toCELL costs, but industry analysts generally say a fuel cell car costs about $ 100,000 tocell car costs about $ 100,000 today.

However, its future potential uses are significantly limited by scarcity and cost, as well as the fact that platinum readily binds with carbon monoxide, which «poisons» the desired reactions, for example in polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells, which are the leading contenders for small - scale and mobile power generation not based on batteries or combustion engines.

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), based on an oxide ion conducting electrolyte, have several advantages over other types of fuel cells, including relatively inexpensive material costs, low sensitivity to impurities in the fuel, and high overall efficiency.

Those «very best» cells are close to becoming cost - competitive with fossil fuels such as coal in some applications but are themselves expensive and impractical for consumer electronics — hence Kyocera's interest in the film.

«This work paves the way for not only paper - based electronics with graphene circuits,» the researchers wrote in their paper, «it enables the creation of low - cost and disposable graphene - based electrochemical electrodes for myriad applications including sensors, biosensors, fuel cells and (medical) devices.»

Established by the Energy Department's Fuel Cell Technologies Office in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the Hydrogen Fueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project will draw on existing and emerging core capabilities at the national labs and aim to reduce the cost and time of new fueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliaFueling Infrastructure Research and Station Technology (H2FIRST) project will draw on existing and emerging core capabilities at the national labs and aim to reduce the cost and time of new fueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliafueling station construction and improve the stations» availability and reliability.

«The efficiency is better than platinum in terms of oxygen reduction, permitting one to sidestep the most prohibitive hurdle in fuel - cell generation — the cost of the precious metal,» he said.