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
  • 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 test phase includes two battery models and two fuel cell trucks.
    — Alan Ohnsman, Forbes, 6 May 2021
  • The single-aisle plane now has four engines, rather than six, each powered by their own fuel cell stack.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2025
  • And ultimately all the fuel cell bus routes headed south, so to speak.
    — Jon Lender, courant.com, 23 June 2018
  • City buses, refuse trucks, and dump trucks can use the same fuel cell technology.
    — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Soldiers could carry aluminum nano-powder to mix with water or urine to juice up a fuel cell.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 28 Sep. 2017
  • So executives had raised the price on their fuel cells, and sales were slowing as a result.
    — New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • Currently, the drone’s fuel cell is a fair-weather flier.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger — has resulted in just a few thousand fuel cell cars on the road.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2021
  • But without the oxygen tanks, the spacecraft could not operate its fuel cells.
    — Eric Berger & Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 6 Feb. 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
  • More than 90% of that power came from the fuel cells, with the battery covering the rest.
    — Omar Kardoudi may 11, New Atlas, 11 May 2026
  • When it is burned in a fuel cell, the byproduct is water or water vapor, not carbon dioxide.
    — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • The fuel cells do produce carbon dioxide emissions.
    — Jeff Young, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
  • One lantern likely became caught in a tree, dropping its burning fuel cell and igniting the fire.
    — Doug Myers, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • At the same time, solar, fuel cells, combined heat and power continue to decline in cost.
    — WSJ, 21 May 2018
  • 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 development of platinum-free fuel cells could have a wide range of benefits.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 26 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Despite all this, Toyota isn't ready to let fuel cell vehicles become a quirky side project just yet.
    — Megan Geuss, Ars Technica, 18 Dec. 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
  • Cosmos can also cruise the seas emissions-free, thanks to two 500 kW methanol fuel cells.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Electric trucks are well-suited for some routes, but their heavy weight compared to diesel and fuel cell trucks can force businesses to scale back heavy loads.
    — Matt McFarland, CNN, 7 Oct. 2022
  • When power is needed, the solid powder would be mixed with water and fed into a fuel cell, Li says.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Nov. 2023

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