Sentences with phrase «vehicle battery cells»

Tesla Motors had an obligation to pay a total of about $ 1.7 billion to Japan's Panasonic as of Sept. 30 for electric vehicle battery cells made at Tesla's gigafactory in Nevada, the carmaker said in a regulatory filing.

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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.

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.

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

Volkswagen on March 13 said it had selected partners to provide battery cells and related technologies worth around 20 billion euros for its electric - vehicle projects in Europe and China.

Nemaska Lithium (NMX.T) intends to become a lithium hydroxide supplier and lithium carbonate supplier to the emerging lithium battery market that is largely driven by electric vehicles, cell phones, tablets and other consumer products.

Tesla is planning to build the biggest lithium - ion battery plant in the world in an effort to not only reduce cell costs for its electric vehicles but to ramp up production as well to keep up with projections that it will be churning out 100,000 vehicles annually by 2015.

The two companies already collaborate on the production of electronic vehicle and grid storage battery cells, according to the blog post.

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.

For electric vehicles to have a 300 - mile range, the battery should provide a cell - level specific energy of 350 to 400 Watt - hours / kilogram (Wh / kg).

Spanning 17 elements — from lanthanum to lutetium, plus scandium and yttrium — they find use in computers, screens, superconductors, oil refineries, hybrid or electric vehicles, catalytic converters, compact fluorescent lightbulbs, light - emitting diodes, lasers, audio speakers and microphones, cell phones, MRI machines, telecommunications, battery electrodes, advanced weapons systems, polished glass, and even the electric motors that run automobile windows.

Tesla's vehicles use the same battery chemistry as Boeing and last week Musk told Flightglobal.com (owned by the company that publishes New Scientist) that he thinks the Dreamliner's battery pack design is «inherently unsafe» because the eight cells inside it are packed too close to dissipate heat effectively.

Researchers at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are turning to extremely tiny tubes and rods to boost power and durability in lithium - ion batteries, the energy sources for cell phones, laptops, and electric vehicles.

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

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.

Transportation and communication around the world increasingly rely on lithium - ion batteries, with cell phones ubiquitous on six continents, and electric vehicles on pace to accelerate from a $ 1 billion worldwide market in 2009 to $ 14 billion by 2016, according to analysts Frost and Sullivan.

«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.

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.

Extinguishing the fire required cutting into the frame of the vehicle in order to reach the embedded battery pack and dousing the cells with flame - snuffing chemicals, according to the firefighters» report.

Ultimately, hybrid vehicles and electric cars — whether powered by batteries or fuel cells — will deliver even more environmental rewards.

The batteries will extend the range of electric vehicles and plug - in hybrid electric vehicles, and provide more power with fewer charges to personal electronics like cell phones and laptops.

«We've got a real fun race going on here between plugging in vehicles and storing electricity in the battery versus pumping hydrogen into a tank and creating electricity from a fuel cell,» says Larry Burns, GM's vice president of research and development.

In the field, the researchers often had to use their vehicle batteries to power the centrifuges used to separate out white blood cells from their samples, and then add buffering chemicals to stabilise the DNA so it would not degrade under the African sun.

Fuel cell vehicles have been overshadowed recently by battery electric vehicles.

Now Iceland says it is more likely that its future vehicle fleet will combine fuel cell vehicles with battery - powered electrics, which suits Daimler just fine.

The carmaker realized that if its vision of battery - powered electric vehicles gaining mass appeal in tandem with fuel cell electrics was to come true, it needed to so something about the lack of hydrogen infrastructure.

In practice, fuel cells and batteries are combined, with the fuel cell generating electricity and the batteries storing it until demanded by the motors that drive the vehicle.

Unlike battery - powered electric vehicles, fuel - cell powered ones have a long cruising range — up to 650 kilometers per tank (the fuel is usually compressed hydrogen gas); a hydrogen fuel refill only takes about three minutes.

The work of investigators at the ITQ, developed together with the University of Oslo and American multinational company CoorsTek, will make it so that vehicles with a hydrogen fuel cell can be recharged with an energetic efficiency and simplicity similar to that of a battery electric vehicle.

«Neutron scattering can be very useful in developing improved fuel cells and batteries and in the future production of electric vehicles», according to The Director of Science at ESS.

Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are researching the reason capacity fading happens to batteries, like in our cell phones or our electric vehicles.

Electrifying the light - duty vehicle fleet through expanded deployment of plug - in hybrids, battery electric vehicles, and hydrogen fuel - cell vehicles.

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles (FCVs) are a form of all - electric hybrid merging a fuel cell stack with a traction battery.

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 new vehicle will have a smaller fuel cell and a larger battery, the report says.

Another Toyota researcher, Taiyo Kawai, general manager - fuel - cell system development, estimates the crossover point for battery - electric and fuel - cell vehicles is a driving range of about 90 miles (144 km) and expects the two powerplants to co-exist.

China's integration of «new energy» vehicles — the Chinese term that includes battery electric, hybrid electric, fuel cell electric, and alternative fuel technologies1 - into transit fleets has become a primary focus following the development of national goals to address harmful emissions concerns.

Aimed at the year 2025, Mercedes made two big statements with the fuel - cell - powered vehicle: It planned to make big, fast luxury liners that cruise the autobahn at triple - digit speeds forever, and secondly it did not believe batteries alone could meet that challenge, at least not in the next few product cycles.

At the same time, current Volt battery pack supplier LG Chem announced that it is planning to introduce new battery cells for electric vehicles with 200 - mile ranges, which could coincide with the Chevrolet Volt's expected 2016 debut as a 2017 model.

Mercedes says the GLC F - Cell provides around 31 miles of range on battery power alone, which means most owners could go long periods of time without depending on the vehicle's hydrogen equation.

Perhaps it's to be expected that the B - Class has been Mercedes - Benz's vehicle of choice for developing cars powered by alternative fuels, including compressed natural gas, hydrogen fuel cell, and now battery - powered electricity.

The downsides of fuel - cell vehicles are that they're expensive to develop (unlike with batteries, fuel cells have more limited uses outside of transportation), and it's expensive to set up the refueling network.

In battery EV mode, the automaker claims that the GLC F - Cell can travel up to 49 miles before it reverts to being a a conventional hydrogen fuel cell vehiCell can travel up to 49 miles before it reverts to being a a conventional hydrogen fuel cell vehicell vehicle.

In reality, 2017 was the year that traditional automakers ramped up their counter assault on Tesla's electric vehicles, with plans for everything from fuel cells and solid - state batteries to new ways to make the internal combustion engine cleaner and more efficient.

There's also a Hybrid mode that allows the GLC F - Cell to utilize both the battery and hydrogen fuel cell to power the vehiCell to utilize both the battery and hydrogen fuel cell to power the vehicell to power the vehicle.