Usually not, but it may.
The number of cells depends on the cell voltage, and to get a 12V, 4-cell battery you'd need to use a chemistry that gives a 3V cell voltage - which some Lithium-type primary cells do.
Twelve volt batteries contain a series of 6 cells in the series.
No! You need fewer cells for six volts. Most 9 volt batteries have six 1.5 volt cells, but a six volt battery has four 1.5 volt cells. In theory you could open the battery up and install a tap at the fourth cell, but that is pretty hard to do.
A 12 volt automotive battery has six cells.
The voltage is set by the number of cells, so a 6 v battery has four cells and a 9 v battery has six. The size of the cells decides the capacity but not the voltage, so four big cells might be bigger than six small ones. The one with bigger cells has a greater amp-hour capacity.
6 @ 1.5v each The 9 volt battery is a true battery, containing six cells of 1.5 volts each. Most storage devices that we call batteries(i.e. D-cell, AA-cell, AAA-cell) are not batteries, but cells.
A 6 volt wet battery has 3 cells. A 6 volt dry battery has 4 cells.
12 volt
It depends on what the 6 cells are, but the battery voltage is just 6 times the cell voltage. In a car battery (lead-acid cells) - 12V In a dry-battery (zinc-carbon cells) - 9V
Twelve 2-volt cells (lead-acid like a car battery) or sixteen 1.5-volt cells will make 24 volts. Also two car batteries in series make 24 v.
In the past, the Walgreens brand of 6 volt lantern battery contained 32 carbon zinc AA cells, 8 sets of 4 in series, connected in parallel. Most all 6 volt lantern batteries today contain (4) 1.5 volt 'F' cells, which are same diameter of 'D' cells but are twice as long as 'C' cells, which are the same length as 'AA' cells.
AnswerAccording to WikiPedia (http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rechargeable_battery), the nominal cell voltage of a Lead Acid wet-cell battery is 2.1 volts, this implies there are 6 cells in a 12 volt Lead Acid wet-cell battery.
By the number of cells. A 12 V battery should consist of 6 cells, each providing about 2 volts. A 12 V battery should consist of 6 cells.