Fuel Cell Today - Informing the fuel cell industry. Fuel Cell Today provides market based intelligence on the fuel cell industry, including surveys, news, images and investment information.

If you can see this message, you're not using one of our supported browsers. We support modern versions of Internet Explorer (version 6+), Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Safari.

If you're using a screen reader or text browser, or have CSS disabled please ignore this message

If you think we've made a mistake and you are using a modern, standards-compliant browser, please click here to access the styled version of the site.

22 Nov 2008 Register / Login F F F
21 May 2003

Micro-Fuel Cells: where do the consumers’ needs fit?

Author
Sandrine Colson-Inam - SCI Consulting
With a potential WW sales market of about US$4.5 billion for rechargeable batteries, environmental issues, and the ever-increasing demand for more power by portable electronic devices (color screens, more functionalities, etc.), Micro-Fuel Cells present nowadays an option that is quite attractive.

Text

Indeed, several companies plan commercial availability of micro-fuel cells for some applications (laptops for example) in the next couple of years. However, rechargeable batteries are not going to give up that easily as many new technical improvements are emerging.

Files

View Archive Contents Page