About 30 to 40 percent of its products require conventional or rechargeable batteries.

The EV1 will be equipped with a conventional battery at first.

But he acknowledged that the consortium was concentrating on improving conventional batteries.

Last year's EV1, with conventional lead-acid batteries, cost $399 a month.

It should also be possible to recharge them faster than conventional batteries.

This offers significant improvement over conventional rechargeable batteries in terms of performance and environmental friendliness.

On the other hand, if the improvement is "only" 5x over conventional batteries then I am still excited!

The company is also making new fuel cells that use methanol to run laptop computers far longer than conventional batteries do.

These were the first pacemakers using the conventional battery to be hermetically sealed.

It is based on fuel cell technology, which, like conventional batteries, uses electrochemical reactions to generate power.