Sentences with phrase «needs electric batteries»

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To accomplish these ends, Musk said that Tesla — electric car manufacturer and creator of the giant solar rechargable home battery Powerwall — needed to acquire solar energy provider SolarCity.

Panasonic is prepared to move up its investment plans for Tesla Motors» battery plant if needed to meet strong demand for the electric car maker's upcoming Model 3 sedan, an executive at the Japanese electronics group said.

Chicago - based Intelligent Generation, one of the startups the Smart Grid cluster supported, has created a software program that connects to the hardware of the electric grid and allows a home or business to capture solar energy, store the energy in batteries and release it to the grid when needed.

Toyota Motor Corp, Asia's No. 1 carmaker, has found a way to make electric vehicles (EVs) more affordable and less vulnerable to shortages in supply of the key elements needed to produce the rechargeable batteries that power them.

It's also something we are covering in our five - part battery series, in which we are looking at lithium - ion battery demand, as well as the materials that will need to be sourced as electric cars go mainstream.

Since 2008, a renaissance in electric vehicle manufacturing has occurred due to advances in batteries and energy management, concerns about increasing oil prices, and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In the coming years, an electric car battery array might serve as a reserve for home power needs, but the technology is not trivial and does not yet exist commercially.

There is one that you need to manually pump the milk by hand, a battery operated one and electric.

Do they need an electric scooter with more battery power if they will be riding it a further distance?

We don't want to blast your dreams of using electric scooters for your commute or your kid's dreams of endless summer days riding around the neighborhood, but most electric scooters» batteries will only last for around 50 continuous minutes before needing another 12 - hour recharge.

It doesn't need electric power or battery to work hence when travelling — you can conveniently heat your baby's milk anytime, anywhere.

You will need to be near an electric point to pump, although some electric breast pumps can also be operated with batteries.

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The benefits are that no batteries or electricity are needed for you to power the pump and they can often be much quieter than electric pumps.

The Good: Medela's electric pump is their most popular as you don't need to worry about batteries or wearing your hand out by pumping manually.

What if we told you that you could clean your litter box yourself in under a minute, without even needing electric or battery - powered help?

It has an electric start option, with the battery included, so you never need to worry about getting it going.

The compact, powerful batteries needed to create viable electric cars are tantalisingly close, but which of the competing options will become the next power player?

Caldeira: We need to say we can't afford to have gasoline cars that emit carbon dioxide — so can we have an electric car system with swappable batteries?

When the driver needs a boost of speed, the batteries can dump up to 60 kilowatts (80 horsepower) into the system, which is now in electric motor mode.

«This technology is ready to apply now to commercial batteries but we would need to ensure that battery management systems on vehicles, and that the infrastructure being put in for electric vehicles, are able to accommodate variable charging rates that would include these new more precisely tuned profiles / limits»

The lithium needed for the batteries that power everything from our laptops to future electric cars may come more than ever from South America's vast salt flats

ORNL's technology could have a much greater impact on purely electric vehicles such as the upcoming Nissan Leaf or Ford Focus RV, which do not have a combustion engine to rely on, meaning depleted batteries need to be charged quickly for the car to be practical.

Yet in order for electric cars to travel greater distances or mobile phones to stay charged for longer, we will need better batteries and more of them.

The innovation could expedite the adoption of electric and hybrid vehicles by eliminating the time needed to stop and re-charge a conventional electric car's battery and dramatically reducing the need for new infrastructure to support re-charging stations.

It's more of an issue for mobile devices because batteries are usually low voltage, and thus additional electric conversion circuits would be needed.»

The carmaker realized that if its vision of battery - powered electric vehicles gaining mass appeal in tandem with fuel cell electrics was to come true, it needed to so something about the lack of hydrogen infrastructure.

As well as the high - tech, lightweight batteries for electric cars reported on by Michael Brooks in the same issue (18 July, p 42), we need low - tech, non-lead «house» batteries that preferably are made from...

Prof Subodh Mhaisalkar, Executive Director of the Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI @N), said: «The biggest challenge with electric cars in tropical megacities is the range that they can travel on a full - charge, because their batteries are needed to power both the engine and the air - conditioning.

Like an electric car, a gauge on the dashboard tells the pilot how much energy is in the batteries and the plane is plugged in when it needs to recharge.

Demand is only set to increase as the need for lithium ion batteries grows, fueled by the popularity of electric vehicles.

Following the auto show in January, The Kavli Foundation brought together three experts to discuss the future of electric cars, the promise of building ever lighter, more powerful batteries, and what is needed for the nascent electric car battery industry to continue to grow.

Plug - in hybrids are cars that would be built to run primarily on an electric battery, but if extra power were needed for a long drive, a gasoline engine would kick in.

To improve my resolutions I need a new electric bike with spare batteries, the lightest available and not to have to pay for it.

The electric powertrain ran out around 25 miles into the journey, not unexpected at highway speeds, but the car will still run in electric mode with the engine providing battery power instead of actual propulsive force if need be.

Peugeot claims that the decelerative force provided by the electric motors lessens the needs for drivers to use the four - piston 380 mm front vented discs and 290 mm rear, as the car stores this energy within the battery while slowing down.

EV Drive mode uses only the two electric motors to power the crossover, while Series Hybrid mode allows the gas engine and battery pack to act as a generator and provide additional power to the electric motors and Parallel Hybrid mode where the car primarily uses the 2.0 - liter gas engine with the electric motors only coming into the picture when extra power is needed.

As the electric racer only needs to last the 12.5 miles of the hill climb, the batteries will only cover a distance of approximately 15 miles when the car is driven at full speed.

Part of the reason for the extra cooling needs could be the addition of hybrid components like a battery cell or electric motor.

Should a stint of such driving leave your battery nearly depleted, but you wish to arrive at your destination on electric power alone (whether for quietness or for restricted access in a city center), all you need to do is switch into sport mode for a while and the battery will be topped up quickly — surprisingly quickly, in fact.

Battery - electric cars potentially have the lowest maintenance of any car type, with no need for oil changes or other routine steps.

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 electric motor sits between the engine and gearbox; it starts the engine, harvests otherwise waste energy to charge the 48 - volt battery and helps to power the vehicle when needed.

These models can run in electric - only mode for 20 - 30 miles, and if you do lots of short, local trips and charge the battery regularly, you could easily run on battery power alone for weeks at a time and never need to fill the fuel tank.

Like the Impact, the EV1 has a 137 - horsepower electric motor, goes from zero to 60 mph in about 8 seconds and can travel between 70 and 90 miles before its 27 lead - acid batteries need to be recharged.

And if I really wanted to dig in, I could choose submodes for the hybrid system, one that maintains the car's battery level and one that runs the engine harder to charge the battery, making sure I have range if I need to drive electric in a city center or other situation down the road.

The former plays the role of a starter and can charge the battery pack or power other electric motors as needed while the latter distributes the power to the drive wheels via a planetary gear - type continuously variable transmission.

As you'd expect, the E-Hybrid has a choice of driving modes, with E-Power using just the electric motor, E-Charge boosting the batteries with the engine, E-Hold to maintain battery power for later and Hybrid Auto to just sort things as needed.

Since there's only so much light weighting that can be done with the chassis and body panels, AMG needs lighter batteries and electric motors.

According to Erik Gottfried, Nissan's director of Electric Vehicle Sales and Marketing, «Nissan anticipates that the great majority of our current Nissan Leaf drivers will never need this battery replacement option.