Sentences with phrase «alternating current electric»

The F3DM has two alternating current electric motors, a 50 - kilowatt unit that drives the wheels and a 25 - kilowatt helper that can send power to the wheels or generate electricity through regenerative braking.

«Linearly polarized light means an alternating current electric field that is always oscillating in one direction,» Kono said.

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It led to the introduction of the electric chair, which Edison hoped people would associate with alternating current.

A type of power inverter, the small, shiny box doesn't produce power itself, but instead changes direct current to alternating current, an essential process in electric car technology that lets battery power spin the car's motor.

(EIA reports installed electric capacity data in alternating current terms, which are typically 10 % to 30 % lower than the direct current capacities sometimes reported for PV systems.)

(Another connection: Nikola is named after Nikola Tesla, who among many other things is responsible for making alternating current dominant on the electric grid.)

This rapid - freezing system uses both alternating and direct current, high «electric potential,» at the same time to rapidly cool the product without oxidization, reducing the size of ice crystals that form in food cells.

Applying an alternating current to this gate electrode sets up an oscillating electric field that surrounds the molecular motor and, according to the researchers» calculations, should cause the anthracene rotor to turn.

The traction - drive system typically consists of a boost converter (which steps up voltage when the electronic circuit requires a higher operating voltage than the battery can provide alone), two inverters (which take direct current (DC) voltage and convert it to alternating current (AC)-RRB-, and electric motors to provide motive power (pdf).

His designs advanced alternating current at the start of the electric age and allowed utilities to send current over vast distances, powering American homes across the country.

The electric current pulses 30 times a second, heating alternating layers of the sandwich with each surge.

Basically, they use microcurrents of electricity to create a very small 3.92 Hertz or one - half of the Earth Schumann frequency of 7.83 Hz alternating electric current (i.e.: the cycle of polarity change happens 3.92 times a second).

Edison championed the use of a direct current for electric power distribution over an alternating current, which was backed by several European companies and Westinghouse Eelectric power distribution over an alternating current, which was backed by several European companies and Westinghouse ElectricElectric.

An inverter converts the direct current from the combustion engine into alternating current for the electric motor.

An inverter converts the stored direct current into alternating current in order to drive the electric motor.

In Germany, where a different charger is needed due to single - phase alternating current, the Smart electric drive can be charged 40 % faster than before at a household socket.

The inverter converts the battery's direct current into a 650 volt alternating current to drive the electric motor and occasionally, the generator, offering significantly improved PCU performance.

Alternating current (AC): An electric current that reverses its direction at regularly recurring intervals.

EIA collects electric capacity data in alternating - current megawatts (MWAC), the type of electricity used in homes and on the grid.

Baker had developed an alternating current synthesizer, or ACS, which the company used in its hybrid gas - electric vehicle prototype in the 1970s.

Direct current (DC) electric systems are getting a new set of standards, and could be favored over our typical alternating current (AC) systems.

The power innverter in an electric car is used to «convert» the direct current, or DC power provided by the battery pack into an alternating current, or AC power, which then drives the electric motors that propel the vehicle.

Wireless chargers (also known as «inductive charging») typically use an induction coil to create an alternating electromagnetic field from within a charging base station, and a second induction coil in the portable device takes power from the electromagnetic field and converts it back into electric current to charge the battery.