How to Use fuel cell in a Sentence

fuel cell

noun
  • The truck should have front bumper damage and a large fuel cell in the back.
    Raisa Habersham, ajc, 21 May 2018
  • The fuel cell is tucked in underneath the truck, so that makes sense.
    Aaron Turpen, New Atlas, 31 Dec. 2024
  • The hydrogen fuel cell option would make the Badger the first of its kind in a pickup.
    Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Though the fuel cell that powered it off her blood glucose had run a close second.
    Richard A. Lovett, Outside Online, 11 Jan. 2021
  • The company said that the absence of moving parts in the plug-and-play system will make the fuel cell easy to maintain.
    Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 28 Apr. 2021
  • The goal is to mass-produce hydrogen fuel cell cars by 2030.
    Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Normal cruising speed on the fuel cells is 14 knots, while a top speed of 17 knots can be achieved by adding the battery power.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 18 Sep. 2024
  • The test phase includes two battery models and two fuel cell trucks.
    Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • The unit uses a battery and replaceable fuel cell, is light and small enough to toss into a pack, and, best of all, is scent-free.
    Justin Park, Popular Mechanics, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger — has resulted in just a few thousand fuel cell cars on the road.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2021
  • And ultimately all the fuel cell bus routes headed south, so to speak.
    Jon Lender, courant.com, 23 June 2018
  • True, Honda has brought a few of its fuel celled models to America for lease, as has Hyundai.
    Ed Wallace, star-telegram, 22 June 2018
  • Besides making water, a fuel cell in place of a turbine could make heat, Freese said.
    Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 18 June 2021
  • The fuel cells need to be brought back on line after a brief but scary indication of power loss.
    Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 29 May 2018
  • That’s the same way fuel cell cars, like the Honda Clarity and Toyota Mirai work.
    Jack Stewart, WIRED, 5 July 2018
  • When mixed with oxygen in a fuel cell, hydrogen burns clean.
    Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Hyundai revealed Nexo, a hydrogen fuel cell SUV that gets 370 miles and can fill up in just five minutes.
    Andrew Moseman, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2018
  • The ionic liquid in his fuel cell is goopy, 10 times more viscous than water.
    Robert F. Service, Science | AAAS, 12 July 2018
  • Whether that means fuel cell rides can ever catch up with battery-electrics in the race to decarbonize cars remains to be seen.
    Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 18 Apr. 2024
  • So executives had raised the price on their fuel cells, and sales were slowing as a result.
    New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • City buses, refuse trucks, and dump trucks can use the same fuel cell technology.
    Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Meeting the goal requires 80% of new car purchases to be fuel cell or electric by the deadline.
    Anne C. Mulkern, Scientific American, 30 July 2020
  • Hunt said, adding that some of the hydrogen in an airship could be used to power an on-board fuel cell that would spin the craft's propellers.
    NBC News, 19 Aug. 2019
  • One of those would be a new hydrogen fuel cell powered unit from Switzerland.
    Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2021
  • But without the oxygen tanks, the spacecraft could not operate its fuel cells.
    Eric Berger & Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Soldiers could carry aluminum nano-powder to mix with water or urine to juice up a fuel cell.
    Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Whether used in a turbine engine or fuel cell, hydrogen occupies much more space than kerosene and can’t be stored in the wings.
    Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The discharge causes the spacecraft’s three fuel cells to be disconnected from the power buses and for a time.
    Roger Simmons, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • In Portland, a man tried to create a hydrogen fuel cell from a mix of mercury, sodium, and powdered aluminum.
    Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Plug Power — The developer of hydrogen fuel cell systems gained 20%.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 6 Jan. 2025

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