Sentences with phrase «as a generator during»

In addition to providing supplemental motive power, the IMA motor acts as a generator during deceleration and braking to recapture kinetic energy and recharge the IMA's battery pack during regenerative braking.

Like many hybrids, the two electric motors work as generators during braking, storing energy in a super capacitor, located under the rear seat.

The role of this motor is to act as a generator during deceleration to charge the super capacitors, and during acceleration to directly power the rear wheel motors.

The twin electric motors act as generators during deceleration and assist the petrol motor during acceleration.

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This is also useful during outages in extreme cold, as most generators can power cooking surfaces and portable heaters too.

During this planning time, I suggest you ask your new department for any repairs and installations you may need, such as having the walls repainted, getting more distilled water faucets installed, or having freezers hooked up to emergency generators, for example.

Behind the building, a biodiesel generator and waste vegetable oil boiler, both dormant during the summer months, attest to the aquaponic system's thirst for energy — the pumps, filters and bioreactor run year - round at a sometimes deafening whir, and the winter brings a need to heat the tanks and power overhead lights, as well.

During the game you'll find yourself taking apart the Batmobile to make other contraptions and altering the Vortex Generator as well.

During braking, one or both electric motors work as a generator to convert unwanted momentum to electricity for battery - pack recharging.

Since the electric motor, which also acts as an electric generator, is attached directly to the crankshaft of the engine, the engine needs to provide as little resistance as possible during deceleration to allow the generator to produce high levels of electricity and charge the batteries.

The hybrid's IMA system utilizes an electric motor fitted between the gas engine and the five - speed automatic transmission that boosts power only when necessary (such as when you're climbing a hill or passing in traffic) and also functions as a generator, charging the batteries during deceleration and braking.

It can provide additional drive to the rear wheels but is mostly used as a generator to top up the battery and alternatively as an alternator to collect and store kinetic energy during braking and trailing throttle.

A third electric motor, also 45 / kW, is located between the engine and the 6 - gear sequential transmission and operates as a generator in two different cases: during deceleration to feed the supercapacitor and during acceleration to directly power the rear electric motors.

It operates as a generator as well, during deceleration to feed the battery and during acceleration to power the rear wheels.

A smaller rear electric motor (13 hp and 81 lb - ft) provides additional drive to the rear wheels but mostly acts as a generator to top off the battery and as an alternator to collect kinetic energy during braking and trailing throttle.

The electric motor switches into hybrid operation and serves as either a secondary engine (during full acceleration and hill - climbing) or a generator (during cruising and deceleration) to recharge the battery pack as necessary.

During deceleration (braking), the front and rear electric motors function as generators so that electricity can be generated and fed back into the lithium - ion battery pack.

During deceleration (braking), the front and rear electric motors function as generators so that electricity can be generated and fed back into the lithium - ion drive battery pack.

When the Insight is coasting or its brakes are applied, and the vehicle is in gear, its electric - assist motor becomes a generator, converting forward momentum into electrical energy, instead of wasting it as heat during conventional braking (vented front disc / rear drum brakes are still the main means of braking).

As in the past, a Motor - Generator - Unit (MGU), during braking events, recovers kinetic energy at the front axle, which flows into a flywheel energy storage system.

If the driver removes his or her foot from the accelerator or brakes when the battery is not sufficiently charged, both electric motors work as generators and feed the energy generated during braking to the lithium - ion battery.

The company explained the iBooster and ESP - hev technology balance the use of the CT6 electric motors to act as generators to slow the vehicle and capture as much kinetic energy as possible during low - demand scenarios, while blending the traditional hydraulic brakes with the motors in high - demand scenarios.

When the driver takes his or her foot off the accelerator pedal or brake and the battery is insufficiently charged, both electric motors work as generators and feed the energy generated during braking into the battery.

The fuel cell generates electricity (and water vapor), so Toyota is pitching the Mirai as an emergency generator for the house during a power failure.

Depending on the driving situation, it functions as a starter or a generator, and provides a tractive boost on startup — up to 250 Nm — at other points during operation.

During matches all players involved will accrue «blood points» by completing certain actions, such as fixing a generator if you're a survivor or destroying a pallet if you're the killer.

Had the diesel generators not been swept away as they were during the ensuing tsunami, there would had been emergency power long enough to have allowed a smooth shut down of the reactor and sufficient cooling.

Auxiliary generator: A generator at the electric plant site that provides power for the operation of the electrical generating equipment itself, including related demands such as plant lighting, during periods when the electric plant is not operating and power is unavailable from the grid.

Some generators run as baseload capacity most of the year, but cycle on and off like intermediate capacity during the spring and fall low - demand seasons.

While these prices are critical to incentivise generators to produce as well as to get consumers to reduce demand, Re-powering Markets makes clear the need for an adequate regulatory framework during hours of capacity shortage.

Under the second option, solar thermal electricity generators receive a premium of 25.4 $ cents / kWh during the first 25 years and 20.3 $ cents / kWh thereafter as a complement to the electricity market price.

Solar thermal electricity generators who sell their production to a distributor receive as fixed tariff 300 % of the reference price (7.2 $ cents / kWh) during the first 25 years and 240 % afterwards.

OSPE also note the actual value of a kWh of wind is 3 cents a kWh (fuel costs) as all it does is displace gas generators when it is generating during high demand periods.

In 2010, EPA started allowing backup generators to operate for 15 hours a year without being subject to emissions regulations as a part of demand response programs implemented during times of extreme load or emergency conditions that could trigger blackouts.

Competitive generators, on the other hand, would likely see their «margins shrink during peak days as more flexibility from DSM enters the market,» Kellison said.

Monthly data allow users to see seasonal patterns, such as periods of nuclear refueling outages in the shoulder seasons (spring and fall) and increased operation of peaking generators during the periods of highest electricity demand in the summer months (driven primarily by air conditioning use).

Victorian consumers could foot the bill for a summer energy plan using diesel generators as a stopgap during periods of peak demand.

During operation, as the battery level falls the generator cuts in, enabling an average speed of 60 — 70mph to be sustained with no further battery depletion.

During regenerative braking, the motor also acts as a high - output generator, recovering kinetic energy as electrical energy to charge the system battery.

During deceleration and under braking, the electric motor acts as high - output generator to effect regenerative braking, optimizing energy management in the Lexus Hybrid Drive system by recovering kinetic energy (normally wasted as heat under braking and deceleration) as electrical energy for storage in the high performance battery.

If you do not have a generator, plan an alternate heat source, as temperatures are expected to drop during the next few days.