Honda Motor, for instance, said it would start recycling rare earth metals from used batteries.
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They used batteries from cellphones and the motherboard from the Macbook.
Currently most proposed systems and experiments have simply used batteries.
The JBL OnBeat Micro provides up to 5 hours of playback when used with batteries and charges the iPhone 5, the iPod touch 5th generation and the new iPod nano when used with the included AC adapter.
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Osaka Gas has already grabbed a big share of the world market for parts used in rechargeable lithium batteries, which are used in mobile phones.
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Lithium-ion batteries are lighter, more efficient and more powerful than nickel-metal-hydride batteries used in first-generation hybrids.
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Lithium-ion batteries are lighter, more efficient and more powerful than nickel-metal hydride batteries used in first-generation hybrids.
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Toyota and its battery suppliers have a head start on the nickel metal hydride batteries used in today's hybrids.
Just take one example: Consider the investment that we've made in the kind of batteries used in hybrid and electric cars.
After all those notorious fires related to the batteries used by the world's largest handset manufacturer, Nokia has issued a product advisory for the BL-5C, Nokia-branded battery.
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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.
Sharp reckons this will enable it to produce cells that are the same size as the lithium-ion batteries used in mobile devices, but which can run those devices for much longer.
General Motors unveiled a new modular unit that uses the power from five used Chevy Volt batteries to provide up to two hours of electricity for three to five average homes.
Batteries used to be the only way to power implantable gadgets, but additional surgeries are needed to replace the power packs once their juice runs out -- a less-than-ideal solution for patients.
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The lithium-ion batteries used in Boeing's 787 Dreamliner are central to the design of a plane which is billed as being lighter and 20% more fuel efficient than earlier generations of jet.
Several reasons have been given as to why the lithium ion batteries used in the Dreamliner could emit smoke, including short circuits, however the report said only overcharging would cause it to burn.
The BL-5C is one of just 14 different batteries used in Nokia products so be sure to check the list below to see if your phone is one of the 52 Nokia handsets affected.
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To meet the need for low weight and high power output, the designers opted for the same lithium ion technology as used in the batteries of most modern smartphones and laptop computers, where the demands are rather similar, but on a much smaller scale.
The batteries themselves make use of the same zinc air technology used in hearing aid batteries, and apparently have the highest energy density of any portable consumer power solution, which translates to about three times the runtime of a similarly sized alkaline or lithium ion battery.
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Lithium batteries are also commonly used in other planes, but these are much smaller batteries, running much more minor things such as a small set of lights.
Those batteries are used to power electrical systems, especially when the plane's engines are idle.
For years, EV boosters have mulled the possibility of all those car batteries being used to store energy.
As of 2010, 98% of EVs used Li-ion batteries, and come 2017, 100% will use Lithium-ion, according to Strategic Analytics.
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In the future, it is expected that batteries currently used in electric cars may play a part in household energy storage.
The new standards also apply to industrial chargers used to power the batteries of golf carts, forklifts and other heavy-duty equipment and go into effect Jan. 1, 2014.
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Solar power would be used to keep the batteries charged.
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The government in its budget for the next fiscal year starting April 1 said lithium ion batteries, used by car manufacturers for electric vehicles, will be exempt from customs duty.
Seamless metal containers still have myriad uses in the high-tech age: they make particularly good casings for long-life lithium ion batteries, used in mobile phones and notebook computers, since they don't corrode as welded casings do.
When I came into office, advanced batteries, which are used, for example, in electric cars, we only accounted for 2 percent of the world market in advanced batteries.
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