Sentences with phrase «makes use of battery»

In addition to the Comfort, Sport, Adaptive and Eco Pro drive modes from the standard 5er, the 530e also features a trio of eDrive modes that adapt how the hybrid system makes use of battery power.

Bypassing guards, occasionally making use of a battery powered takedown ability or a silenced weapon of some sort is still a joy, but you can also go in all guns blazing.

Light users may be able to get through two — especially if you make use of the Battery Saver mode.

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Utilities can use batteries to make the grid more stable, and to avoid building new expensive and dirty power plants that they only operate during times of peak power demand.

Apple's apps offer a pretty good variety of actions — I appreciated finally being able to see the amount of battery left in my Apple battery pack without putting it on the charger, for example — but the third - party apps that make even better use of the widget were even more exciting.

In fact, Tesla's core mission is to make big batteries inexpensive and practical for any number of uses.

All of us water agencies use a lot of power, and I think that's why a lot of us water agencies are getting phone calls from some of these battery companies hoping to make the renewables work better.

A combined Tesla and SolarCity will be able to offer customers better and more affordable ways to drive clean cars, use battery packs to consume energy more efficiently, and make use of solar energy.

Nano One Materials Corp. (TSXV: N NO) has captured the imagination of investors with a disruptive technology that can short - cut the traditional way of making cathode material used in lithium - ion batteries and ultimately improve their performance.

It will employ 6,500 people and it will have a state - of - the - art recycling system to make use of old battery packs.

Lipo batteries usually come half - charged so that you can make use of them for some time, but again we still do recommend you to recharge your batteries before using them fully.

Its dimensions stand at 35.4 x 24 x 41.1 inches making it one of the biggest too, it's a miracle it requires no use of batteries.

If your child is allowed to use a calculator, make sure they have on available, that it has the correct functions and an extra set of batteries.

The bottle does not require the use of battery and makes it easy to transition from breast to bottle and the small bottles come with slow flow nipples and taller ones with medium nipples.

I made my kids» shampoo for the first five years of their life, I don't use paper towels or commercial cleaning products, I use naturopathic and holistic medicine rather than Western medicine, I don't own any toys that require batteries, I believe in natural birth as an empowering and profound experience for women, and I don't shave my legs.

The 950mAh rechargeable battery will last 7 to 8 hours and an impressive operating range of up to 960 feet will make sure you use it freely inside and even outside your house.

Lithium, among the top 10 most expensive minerals in the world can be used for the manufacture of batteries, heat - resistant glass, and ceramics while Lithium stearate is mixed with oils to make all - purpose and high - temperature lubricants.

As with Tesla, the details remain confidential, but the idea is to take coatings normally used to improve the longevity of artificial joints, and apply them to making batteries with dry electrodes.

To help make ideas about energy more concrete, for example, the new unit will use a variety of analogies from more familiar physical systems (e.g., combustion and charging a cellphone battery) to help students understand those same energy - releasing and energy - requiring chemical reactions and energy transfer when they occur in living organisms (e.g., cellular respiration, creating a charge across a membrane in mitochondria and nerve cells) where the reactions are more complex and difficult to observe.

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Thor uses common AAA batteries that provide hours of use and are easily replaced, making it convenient and practical for everyone.

Almost immediately after publishing the earlier research on the flow battery, Chiang says, «We realized that a better way to make use of this flowable electrode technology was to reinvent the [lithium ion] manufacturing process.»

Current lithium - ion batteries use a polymer - based electrolyte made of an alkyl carbonate.

«Using the battery of mobile phones in small solar home systems becomes obvious in order to make access to electricity easier to those who live without.»

That's why another group of researchers in a 2011 study used a solid - state battery — that is, one in which the electrolyte was made from solid material.

Making full use of this newly reconfigured web of springs, the lab soon doubled the power emanating from the battery in the small motors in PowerFoot One.

Researchers at The City College of New York - based CUNY Energy Institute announce the development of a novel low cost, rechargeable, high energy density battery that makes the widespread use of solar and wind power possible in the future.

A new approach to the design of a liquid battery, using a passive, gravity - fed arrangement similar to an old - fashioned hourglass, could offer great advantages due to the system's low cost and the simplicity of its design and operation, says a team of MIT researchers who have made a demonstration version of the new battery.

An international team led by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used advanced techniques in electron microscopy to show how the ratio of materials that make up a lithium - ion battery electrode affects its structure at the atomic level, and how the surface is very different from the rest of the material.

Using their computer models as a guide, the researchers found a variant of polyethylene commonly used in battery making that has a specific nanostructure that is opaque to visible light yet is transparent to infrared radiation, which could let body heat escape.

Rechargeable lithium ion batteries are small and light, yet can store copious amounts of energy, making them ideal for use in everyday electronic devices such as iPods and laptops.

Their battery uses a solid instead of a liquid electrolyte that enables the use of a metal anode by blocking the formation of dendrites, making it possible to store more energy while guaranteeing safety.

Electrodes and wiring, for example, can be made using silver particles mixed into silicone, while the bulk of a battery can be made using a paste of zinc particles and liquid electrolyte.

One, A123 Systems in Watertown, Mass., is a three - year - old firm that builds batteries that use electrodes made from nanostructured iron phosphates, an innovation developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), according to Whittingham.

To make the technique practical for use in people, the researchers are developing a light - emitting diode in the form of a cuff that would go around the nerve, which could be connected to a miniature battery pack under the skin.

A study in the journal Science illustrates how genetically engineered viruses can be used to assemble an anode and cathode to make a new kind of battery.

When that didn't work, the researchers sometimes resorted to mild electric shock, using a nine - volt battery to make the venom glands contract and prompt the release of a droplet or two.

IBM announced in June that it is pursuing a new kind of lithium battery that uses the surrounding air as a cathode, making it even lighter and more compact than existing designs.

The Obama administration made a concerted effort to transform the U.S. transportation system with battery startups, regulations that ramp up the use of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels, and a near doubling of fuel efficiency requirements for light - duty cars and trucks.

In the spring 2017 issue, meet the people who work round the clock at Argonne's giant synchrotron, using X-rays to tease out the secrets of everything from volcanic glass to batteries to bacterial machinery — as well as engineers who travel the world to make reactors safer, physicists who collect model ships, and scientists inventing materials for the next technology breakthroughs.

Earlier this summer, President Obama announced that PNNL would lead the Battery500 Consortium, a partnership of DOE national labs, universities and industry working together to make smaller, lighter and less - expensive batteries that can be adopted by manufacturers for use in future electric vehicles.

Nov. 2, 2016 — Vanderbilt researchers have discovered how to make high - performance batteries using scraps of metal from the junkyard and household chemicals.

WHOI engineers modified a hydraulically operated robotic manipulator arm to operate under intense pressure and make effective use of the vehicle's limited battery power.

As a consequence, a tank of oxygen gas would have to be part of the battery system, making it prohibitive for use in electric vehicles due to space requirements.

I use a battery operated facial brush with a cleanser to exfoliate once or twice a week before bed and it not only makes my skin feel soft and smooth, it's also like an itty bitty spa treatment that is relaxing and makes me feel like I'm taking care of myself.

Some online dating sites, such as eHarmony, use match - making algorithms, in which users complete a battery of personality measures and are then matched with «compatible» mates.

Year 4 Science Assessments Objectives covered: Recognise that living things can be grouped in a variety of ways Explore and use classification keys to help group, identify and name a variety of living things in their local and wider environment Recognise that environments can change and that this can sometimes pose dangers to living things Describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans Identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions Construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey Compare and group materials together, according to whether they are solids, liquids or gases Observe that some materials change state when they are heated or cooled, and measure or research the temperature at which this happens in degrees Celsius (°C) Identify the part played by evaporation and condensation in the water cycle and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating Recognise that vibrations from sounds travel through a medium to the ear Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases Identify common appliances that run on electricity Construct a simple series electrical circuit, identifying and naming its basic parts, including cells, wires, bulbs, switches and buzzers Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit, based on whether or not the lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit Recognise some common conductors and insulators, and associate metals with being good conductors

The winning team created a simple, portable and lightweight charger that makes use of two renewable energies (wind and solar power) to charge four rechargeable AA batteries.

The OEM battery in my 2008 Jetta SE 2.5 L has been nearly fully discharged one month back (had insufficient surface charge after a prolonged use without the engine running, but leaving it idle for 20 minutes made the car start again), then worked fine for a few days afterwards (but without being subjected to much charge), but then was discharged again after only a quarter of the prior abuse (since it was probably not fully charged since the prior discharge, me underestimating the driving time it would take to bring the battery back to fuller life, plus possibly missing out on water, as I found out later).

Its Predictive Energy Control system will use information on uphill and downhill grades in the navigation system (when activated) to make better use of the stored battery power and the regenerative braking.