Publication date:16-September-2003 

The new micro fuel cell system is reported to have as much as 20% greater efficiency than the similar system that NEC demontrated on June 30. At the same time they reported that they have also reduced the size of the micro-fuel cell by this same 20% figure.

Starting tomorrow Sept.17th and running through until Sept.30th the company will demontrated this new micro-fuel cell system at the WPC Expo 2003  in Makuhari, Japan.

Earlier this year NEC said planned to commercialize this micro-fuel cell system as early as the end of 2004. This commercial product will, according to the company run a laptop for 5 hours on one single cartridge of methanol.

They also reported that they plan to commercialize an "advanced version" of this fuel cell that would run a laptop for as much as 40 hours by the end of 2005.