Lithium-ion batteries are lighter, more efficient and more powerful than nickel-metal-hydride batteries used in first-generation hybrids.
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Phones also run several kinds of batteries, ranging from lithium ion to lithium polymer to Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH).
To be technical they have moved from nickel cadmium (NiCad), through nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) to lithium-ion (Li-ion).
Lithium-ion batteries are lighter, more efficient and more powerful than nickel-metal hydride batteries used in first-generation hybrids.
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In the late 1990s through the early 2000s, it sold about 1, 500 RAV4s with a giant nickel-hydride battery.
Nickel-metal-hydride batteries use neodymium, cerium, lanthanum and praseodymium, none of which are used in more efficient lithium-ion batteries.
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Toyota and its battery suppliers have a head start on the nickel metal hydride batteries used in today's hybrids.
Its nickel metal hydride battery provides small bursts of power in stop-and-go traffic.
What's the environmental impact of building a new car and of manufacturing nickel metal hydride batteries that many hybrids use?
Its original nickel-metal-hydride battery packs have been replaced with lead acid batteries to extend the distance the car can travel on electricity.
Hybrid vehicles like Toyota's Prius, which are propelled by both gasoline and electric motors, now use nickel metal hydride batteries to store electricity.
Like the powerful nickel-metal-hydride battery in the Toyota Prius that he drives to work every day, the one with the license plate OVONIC.
And the alternatives they consider should include the one that Sadoway recommended a safer, but less powerful Nickel Metal Hydride (NiMH) battery.
Ford already knew that lithium ion batteries were 50 percent lighter and 25 to 30 percent smaller than nickel-metal-hydride batteries, packing more energy pound-for-pound.
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It is intended to deliver ambient light rather than directed light for tasks, and contains a nickel-metal-hydride battery, rather than a cheaper nickel-cadmium cell.
If autos are someday powered by hydrogen, Ovshinsky thinks the hydrogen should be stored not as a gas under high pressure, but as a solid hydride.
His company gets a royalty on about two-thirds of the roughly 1.3 billion consumer nickel-metal-hydride batteries that are produced every year for things like cell phones.
While the nickel metal hydride (Ni-MH) battery will remain the choice for Prius, Camry and Highlander hybrids, Toyota is doing some research and development with lithium ion batteries.
The battery venture, called Texaco Ovonic Battery Systems, built a plant in Springboro, Ohio with the capacity to produce enough nickel-metal-hydride batteries to fill 60, 000 hybrid automobiles a year.
With all the electronic devices in our lives these days, it makes environmental (and financial) sense to switch to rechargeable nickel metal hydride (NiMH) and lithium ion (Li-Ion) batteries.
Johnson Controls is positioning itself to be a technology leader in hybrid car batteries as the industry shifts to lithium ion batteries from nickel metal hydride batteries used in today's hybrids.
The battery cells were fabricated by adapting a process developed by another team at the university which is designed to make it faster to recharge the batteries than lithium ion (Li-on) and nickel metal hydride (NiMH) equivalents.
The c's program managers were thus obliged to dial back to the previous generation's 1.5-liter engine (the Gen III Prius uses a 1.8-liter), a smaller traction motor (60 hp vs. 80 hp) and a lighter, cheaper nickel-metal hydride battery (19.3 kilowatts vs. 27 kW).
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Before I even received my computer, I was informed that the lithium ion battery it was supposed to ship with were catching on fire (you heard right, catching on fire), and so were going to be replaced with an inferior nickel metal hydride one.
In his 50-year career, Ovshinsky received more than 400 patents in the U.S. and more than 800 foreign patents covering a range of technologies, including nickel-metal hydride batteries, rewritable CDs, DVD optical discs, flat-screen liquid crystal displays, hydrogen fuel cells, thin-film solar cells and others.
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Toyota's top hybrid engineers say they are all for plug-ins, but they don't think the lithium-ion batteries they depend on will be ready to meet their stringent quality standards for several years. (They cannot resist a polite titter about spontaneously combusting laptop batteries.) Toyota is therefore likely to stick with the heavy and range-limited nickel-metal hydride battery for the third-generation Prius, due in 2009.
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