Slashgear: Apple reportedly toying with idea of fuel cells in electronics

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Jul 14, 2014

Battery life is a concern for anyone with a gadget, and as much as we want longer life — it’s just not happening on a hardware level. Companies like LG work clever software workarounds into devices like the G3, but the hardware fix still escapes us. Apple has reportedly partnered with a fuel cell company, and may be looking to bring their technology to our various devices.


Intelligent Energy is a company devoted to the fuel cell, which they claim via their site is scalable to just about any need. They’re so bent on mobile, they have a section of the site dedicated to letting the world know it’s possible to have a fuel cell on a mobile device. Perhaps most telling is this statement:

Our technology can be sized to suit your requirements and designed to power anything from a laptop to a mobile phone.

Why, Apple has all those products, don’t they? Details of the partnership weren’t leaked, but Intelligent Energy noted in a recent funding round they were working with a big-name “international electronics company”. Between the mystery partner who is now said to be Apple, and Intelligent Energy’s commitment to mobile, the pieces fit.
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Intelligent Energy-The global power technology company



Intelligent Energy is an intellectual property rich company with over 23 years in R&D, resulting in over 550 patents (granted or pending). We specialise in the development of modular, low carbon fuel cell systems for our blue chip partners and their global mass markets.

With over 300 staff based across operating sites and offices around the world, we develop technology that is tailored to suit our partners’ power technology needs – collaborating from early in the design process and embedding our proprietary technology platform into their products.

We work in three market sectors – automotive, consumer electronics and distributed power & generation . It is our ecosystem of partners that is at the heart of Intelligent Energy.
http://www.intelligent-energy.com/