If the animal comes into contact with the wire, it feels a small electric shock.
My missing suitcase housed my overnight essentials, without which I am lost: Egyptian cotton pajamas and a small electric fan for white noise.
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Essentially leveraged as a form of high-tech turbocharging, here a small electric motor gives a modest fuel-free power boost to a direct-fuel-injected 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine.
O. of Miles Electric Vehicles, a small electric-car company in Santa Monica that was looking to expand, and he went searching for a Chinese partner.
The entity came about in 2010 when Mahindra bought Reva, a small electric-car company that over a decade sold less than 5, 000 models of its tiny electric car, the REVAi.
Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) are small battery-powered devices that can deliver a small electric shock to the heart in response to a life-threatening arrhythmia (when the heart starts beating rapidly and inefficiently).
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In milder cases you can have a small electric shock to get the heartbeat to return to normal, or like British Prime Minister Tony Blair had last year, a procedure called catheter ablation.
The way to stabilise a chaotic heart would be to wait until it comes closer to a more periodic state and then give it a small electric shock to nudge it into that state.
The weather had been unseasonably warm, and he considered buying Obie a small electric fan but decided against it, because it would just make him unhappy if he ever had to live without one again.
Akerson, speaking on the sidelines of the Automotive News World Congress during the Detroit auto show, said he has been pleased with consumer response to the newly launched Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid, so much so that GM now expects to sell more than 25, 000 Volts in 2011 and will add another Volt-like product, perhaps in the form of a small electric van, in 2012 or 2013.
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Toyota is still going ahead with plans for a small urban electric car for 2012, likely powered by lithium batteries made by Panasonic, its joint venture partner in Japan.
Early this year the maritime website gCaptain tested a number of small electric bikes and found many of them to be heavy or expensive or, like the well built A2B Metro, both.
That project got put on the backburner and Better Place instead said it would build battery switch stations for a small fleet of electric taxis that would operate from the San Francisco and San Jose airports.
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" This is all in addition to a separate recall in early January specific to a small number of batteries, (part number 054978-001) that -- according to Columbia -- "may have been included with a small number of electric jackets may overheat and result in a fire hazard.
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The automaker plans to ship a small number of Focus Electric starting in December.
It is a hybrid, powered by both a small internal combustion engine and a battery-driven electric motor.
The ferry is part of a small fleet of diesel-electric boats first launched in 1888.
Fisker, electric with a small gasoline-engine generator, had effectively addressed only a sliver of the potential market for his magnificent car.
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In 2010, a small number of very large electric power generators accounted for roughly one third of all natural gas delivered to consumers.
Why make an electric version of a small-run, vintage-inspired car that is already great fun to drive.
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He also hopes for a small gasoline engine and a larger electric motor.
All of the recordings on Sojourner are new, from a band with a small but intense following: Magnolia Electric Company.
This means Smartfortwo Electric is priced like a competively small car, which should give the smart alecks something to chew on for this time.
It runs on battery power for about 40 miles, after which a small gasoline engine kicks in to power an electric motor that extends the EV range for up to 300 miles.
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Now, rural regeneration agency Cadwyn Clwyd has launched a project to revive small-scale hydro-electric power production in rural Denbighshire, launching feasibility studies for using water power on the Dee at Llangollen, and on the Alyn at Llandegla and Loggerheads.
Homes and shops often contain a small ancestral altar where candles, incense or red electric bulbs are used to honor the departed.
Nearly a decade before internet-sensation Groupon gave consumers everywhere an opportunity to leverage the power of group purchasing, a small outfit in Texas provided a massively-scaled up version of this power to many of the largest electric utilities in North America.
Zotye, a small Zhejiang province-based automaker also reportedly has an electric vehicle ready for sale, as do Chery of Anhui Province and Lifan of Chongqing.
Take a 20 kilometers-per-liter hybrid, which is a small car with two engines--one gasoline, one electric--that work in collaboration.
The molecules are then sorted according to their length by using an electric current to drag them through a gel (small molecules move faster than big ones) and the order of the colours in the gel is read off, using a laser.
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