But, of course, a fuel-cell car is an electric car, albeit with a complicated hydrogen battery.
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The orientation also makes for a much lower center of gravity than a typical fuel-cell car.
The carmakers hope to launch "the world's first affordable, mass-market fuel cell car" by 2017.
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Daimler Benz (which already produces an advanced fuel-cell car) recently bought 27% of Ballard, a maker of fuel cells.
So, a hydrogen fuel-cell car even running ... on hydrogen derived from natural gas cuts that carbon emission by 60%.
Also a type of electric vehicle, a fuel-cell car takes hydrogen gas and converts it into electricity, while emitting only water vapor.
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In a hydrogen fuel cell car, hydrogen gets drawn through a catalytic membrane: an electron gets stripped from the hydrogen to power the car.
Healy and Brewster dream of people someday driving a fuel-cell car up to an Enernoc meter during peak demand and pumping electricity back into the grid.
This thing is just a wee bit cumbersome: 700 square feet to create enough hydrogen to run a fuel cell car 10, 000 miles a year and supply electricity for the house.
Little, a consultancy that has investigated the matter, the running costs to a driver of a fuel-cell car that gets its hydrogen from natural gas would be comparable to those of one that used clean petrol.
Most of Toyota's energy is instead being funneled into its tried-and-true hybrids, with 21 due on the market by 2015, as well as plans to deliver the company's first hydrogen fuel cell car by the same year.
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Instead of selling individual units, they would offer a low-power system that relied on a solar cell or car battery in remote areas without grid electricity.
Instead of selling individual units, they would offer a low-power system that relied on a solar cell or car battery in remote areas that didn't have grid electricity.
No automaker has yet to offer a fuel-cell-powered car for sale to customers, although Honda has said it plans to lease a number of the fuel-cell cars to customers as soon as 2008.
One is the electric car, the other is the fuel cell, or the hydrogen car.
Forget making a call on your cell phone from the car (stopped and pulled to the side of the road, of course).
More recently I left my cell phone in my car on a night when I was in the eighth row for a Beyonce concert.
All three combine to represent the logical future of personal computing: surfing, shopping and downloading the Net from your car, cell phone and TV set, and from portable Internet appliances.
According to a story in the Boston Globe, the victim told police he left his cell phone in the car, which could be tracked, and he also told police that his car could also be tracked using the Mercedes-Benz GPS system.
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Now imagine snapping a picture of your car on your cell phone.
And just think of the possibilities if you are trying to raise money for an unfinanceable solar cell, windmill, electric car, biofuel, or battery company!
The U.S. military also announced the Wednesday arrest in northern Arab Jabour of a man described as a foreign fighter who heads a car-bombing cell network.
The Motorola T805 comes with a car charger, cell phone mount, dash mount and visor clip -- with a requirement for a 12-month MOTONAV national subscription (including up-to-date maps).
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What features would you like to have in your new car or on a cell phone or in a coffee machine?
Super efficient lights known as LEDs are in widespread use in car tail lights, cell phones, and TV screens around the world.
This included a weekend in a remote area of North Carolina when my cell signal was roaming and several car rides when I used BlackBerry Maps for navigation.
To have a useful range of 480km (300 miles) or so, an electric car using a fuel cell instead of a battery pack would require around 9kg (20 pounds) of hydrogen.
And it will allow viewers to watch TV from a laptop, maybe on their cell phone or even in a moving car or train.
Six in 10 consumers want a data connection in their car, either through a cell phone or embedded modem, and nearly half of consumers are willing to pay for it, IMS reports.
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