Wednesday, 24. September 2003

Topic: COMPUTER - on September 24, 2003 at 1:49:29 PM CEST

Fuel cells power up for notebooks

NEC Corp. and Toshiba Corp. last week showed prototypes of fuel cells that they said would find their way into notebook computers before the end of next year. The direct-methanol fuel cells weigh in at about 900 grams each and can power a system for five hours, with one fill-up of methanol fuel.

NEC plans to market a notebook PC with a built-in fuel cell by the end of 2004. It also intends to launch a notebook equipped with an internal fuel cell that offers 40 hours of continuous operation by the end of 2005. Toshiba, too, aims at introducing its first fuel cell product for PCs in 2004.

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