Fuel Cell Works, July 31, 2006
With energy requirements for portable and handheld devices increasing on a daily basis, traditional batteries will be unable to meet the demands of advanced power-hungry multimedia applications. Micro fuel cells are emerging as a viable technology alternative to bridge the current power gap, although a number of issues need to be resolved before they reach maturity and commercialisation. These are some of the findings in visiongain’s latest report, “Mobile handset batteries and fuel cells: 2006-2013.”
Hybrid power systems, comprising of a fuel cell and Li-ion/Li-Po combination, will become a mainstream solution by the end of the decade, and visiongain believes that fuel cell-only mobile devices will eventually displace hybrid solutions. Visiongain estimates that shipments of fuel cells in mobile devices will grow from 7 million in 2009 to 92.6 million in 2011, accounting for around 10% of all handset shipments that year, with exponential growth seen thereafter.
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