Sentences with phrase «drive battery»

In this configuration, the gasoline - powered generator helps charge the lithium - ion drive battery pack and powers the motors.

The gasoline - powered engine / generator — while operating the vehicle at sufficient speed — will feed any excess energy (electricity) back into the lithium - ion drive battery pack.

The quest for more power is driving battery research at an unprecedented rate.

On a full drive battery, zero - emissions range is claimed to be some 32 miles.

The magazine's reviewers drove the battery to exhaustion in 190 miles.

• Drive battery pack: stored (safely) under floor within the wheelbase not to affect interior space.

Drive battery capacity may be of greater interest to most clued - up PHEV buyers, of course, since that's the biggest telltale of electric - only range and real - world fuel economy.

By plugging them into cars and squeezing nearly 300 miles out of a single charge, Tesla helped drive battery technology, and a reluctant auto industry, forward.

The battery was brand new when I got the Jeep, but soon after purchasing it I would find if it sat a few days without driving it the battery would be completely dead.

The high - capacity 12 kWh lithium - ion drive battery gives Outlander PHEV an EV Drive Mode cruising range of more than 55 km (34 miles) in the JC08 cycle, sufficient for all - electric operation in most everyday situations in Japan.

Monitor Vehicle Status: Check the car's status such as an open / closed door or hood, headlights on / off, driving battery state of charge and more.

We're still at that juvenile stage in the development of the plug - in hybrid car when the good ones often distance themselves from the less good simply because they were designed from a clean sheet to accept items such as drive batteries and electric motors.

For the Baja Portalegre 500, Mitsubishi will beef up the Outlander PHEV's drive battery structure, control system and suspension.

If global warming is true and doomsday is at hand, putting up a few windmills and driving a battery powered car isn't going to help.

She worked with Tesla's suppliers, tested the car company's lithium - ion batteries for long - term use, oversaw quality assurance, and conducted «failure analysis» to drive battery cell production and design improvements.

All along, Mercedes Benz has been saying their B - Class Electric Drive battery pack has a capacity of 28 kWh.

For example, if the engine is idling and the vehicle is not moving, selecting the Battery Charge Mode will replenish a low energy level within the lithium - ion Drive battery pack back up to 80 % fully charged in approximately 40 minutes.

Dr Semih Afyon, a scientist at the Electrochemical Materials Institute, sums up the fundamental idea that is driving battery research: «What we need is new chemistry and novel compounds to obtain safe, better and longer - lasting batteries.»

Mercedes quotes a zero - emission range of 19 miles with a full drive battery, but during our testing the C 350 e would cover only 12 miles, on a mix of town and country roads, before the petrol engine joined in.

«Chemists create vitamin - driven battery: Environmentally friendly battery is long - lasting and high voltage.»

EV Drive Mode is an all - electric function in which the front and rear motors drive the vehicle using only electricity from the drive battery.

Regenerative braking technology, which works to put lost energy back into the battery when slowing down and which can adjusted while driving using the steering wheel paddles, has also been upgraded for 2017 Outlander PHEV — the drive battery output has been improved by 10 %.

Placed behind the rear axle line, the car's drive battery and power inverter quite plainly began to adversely affect the precision and security of its limit handling during our track testing.

This new # 140k Panamera is the first of them, and what it effectively does is to combine the 14kWh lithium - ion drive battery, 134bhp electric motor and high - voltage power electronics of the existing Panamera 4 E-Hybrid «PHEV» with the 542bhp twin - turbo petrol engine of the Panamera Turbo.

After last year's (less successful) rally, Mitsubishi learned that they needed higher ground clearance and the drive battery to be placed higher for better off - road performance.

The limited size of the car's drive battery, the limited available power of its electric motor (it's potent enough at town speeds but struggles above 50mph) and the relative thirst of its 208bhp petrol engine also limit the real - world economy you might get from the car.

The packaging of the drive battery takes a sliver of boot space away immediately above the rear axle but it hardly makes a difference to the car's practicality in everyday use.

Short of the Tesla Model S, this is the nicest, most fun - to - drive battery - powered electric vehicle on the market — or soon will be, when it comes to the U.S. in mid-2014.

The Plug - in Hybrid EV system features a high - capacity drive battery, front and rear electric motors, a generator, and a gasoline engine for the generation of power as well as for driving at high speeds, delivering hybrid driving that provides a longer all - electric cruising range and is powered mainly by the electric motors.

When the remaining energy in the drive battery gets low, the Mitsubishi Plug - in Hybrid EV System's switches to Series Hybrid Mode where its gasoline engine automatically starts and generates power for the electric motors.

Furthermore, when a vehicle with the Mitsubishi Plug - in Hybrid EV System is decelerating, it switches to the Regenerative Mode which uses the motors as power generators to recharge the drive battery.

In this way, the Mitsubishi Plug - in Hybrid EV System optimally controls each of the driving modes so it provides the versatility to drive as a 100 % electric vehicle, use the engine to charge the drive battery, or drive using the motors and the engine at the same time, based on driving conditions.»

When driving at medium - to low - speeds, the Mitsubishi Plug - in Hybrid EV System stays in EV Mode, driving the vehicle through its electric motors using electricity from the drive battery.

The main drive battery is a 7.1 - kWh (gross) lithium - ion unit tucked away in the car's centre tunnel.

The GLC - Fuel Cell is the companys idea of a fuel - cell - powered luxury crossover that an owner can also plug in to charge the drive batteries.

This drives battery electric fanatics crazy and prompts Tesla to send managers to CARB meetings to lobby for other automaker's technology to be restricted.

The vehicle's drive battery can be charged with a standard 120V (full charge in less than eight hours) power outlet at home with the supplied charging cable, or with a public or residential 240V (full charge in less than four hours) charging station.

When activating the Battery Charge Mode — whether the vehicle is in motion or at a standstill — the engine will generate electricity to be fed into the lithium - ion drive battery pack (essentially forcing the vehicle to operate in Series Hybrid Mode).

Both 60 kilowatt electric motors are placed at the front and rear of the vehicle; each motor drives its own axle independently for optimal front / rear torque split; these are linked to a12 kilowatt - hour lithium - ion Drive battery pack.

In this driver - activated mode, the Outlander PHEV automatically conserves the energy within the lithium - ion Drive battery pack by operating the vehicle in hybrid mode (Note: Battery Save Mode will only operate once the lithium - ion Drive battery pack's energy level falls below 90 % full).

When activating the Battery Charge Mode — whether the vehicle is in motion or at a standstill — the engine will generate electricity to be fed into the lithium - ion Drive battery pack (essentially forcing the vehicle to operate in Series Hybrid mode)

The Outlander PHEV's exhaust note has been reduced and the engine compartment's soundproofing has been increased in order for the vehicle to remain as quiet as possible when operating in pure EV Drive Mode (even when the engine is in use to charge the lithium - ion Drive battery pack).