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This list is a summary of notable
This list is a summary of notable electric battery
An electric battery is a source of electric power consisting of one or more electrochemical cells with external connections for powering electrical devices. When a battery is supplying power, its positive Terminal (electronics), terminal is the ...
types composed of one or more electrochemical cell
An electrochemical cell is a device that either generates electrical energy from chemical reactions in a so called galvanic cell, galvanic or voltaic cell, or induces chemical reactions (electrolysis) by applying external electrical energy in an ...
s. Three lists are provided in the table. The primary (non-rechargeable) and secondary (rechargeable) cell lists are lists of battery chemistry. The third list is a list of battery applications.
Battery cell types
Batteries by application
*Automotive battery
An automotive battery, or car battery, is a usually 12 Volt lead-acid rechargeable battery that is used to start a motor vehicle, and to power lights, screen wiper etc. while the engine is off.
Its main purpose is to provide an electric curren ...
* Backup battery
* Battery (vacuum tube)
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In the early days of electronics, devices that used vacuum tubes (called ''valves'' in British contexts), such as radios, wer ...
* Battery pack
A battery pack is a set of any number of (preferably) identical Battery (electricity), batteries or individual battery cells. They may be configured in a series, parallel or a mixture of both to deliver the desired voltage and current. The term ' ...
* Battery room
* Battery-storage power station
* Biobattery
* Button cell
A button cell, watch battery, or coin battery is a small battery made of a single electrochemical cell and shaped as a squat cylinder typically in diameter and high – resembling a button. Stainless steel usually forms the bottom body and ...
* CMOS battery
* Common battery
* Commodity cell
* Electric-vehicle battery
* Flow battery
* Home energy storage
* Inverter battery
* Lantern battery
* Nanobatteries
* Nanowire battery
* Local battery
* Polapulse battery
* Photoflash battery
* Reserve battery
* Smart battery system
* Watch battery
* Water-activated battery
See also
*Atomic battery
An atomic battery, nuclear battery, radioisotope battery or radioisotope generator uses energy from the decay of a radioactive isotope to generate electricity. Like a nuclear reactor, it generates electricity from nuclear energy, but it diffe ...
* Baghdad Battery
* Battery nomenclature
* Carnot battery
* Comparison of commercial battery types
This is a list of commercially-available battery types summarizing some of their characteristics for ready comparison.
Common characteristics
Cost in inflation-adjusted USD.
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Rechargeable c ...
* History of the battery
Batteries provided the main source of electricity before the development of electric generators and electrical grids around the end of the 19th century. Successive improvements in battery technology facilitated major electrical advances, from ...
* List of battery sizes
This is a list of the sizes, shapes, and general characteristics of some common primary and secondary battery types in household, automotive and light industrial use.
The complete nomenclature for a battery specifies size, chemistry, terminal ...
* List of energy densities
* ''Search for the Super Battery'' (2017 PBS film)
* Fuel cell
A fuel cell is an electrochemical cell that converts the chemical energy of a fuel (often hydrogen fuel, hydrogen) and an oxidizing agent (often oxygen) into electricity through a pair of redox reactions. Fuel cells are different from most bat ...
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