It consists of a battery-powered pulse generator and several wires that are connected to the heart.
Once the battery is depleted, the vehicle gets 50 miles to the gallon as the generator kicks in to charge the battery while driving.
Early in the project the laptop included a hand-crank generator to power the battery.
The gasoline engine only turns a generator, which charges the battery and sends electricity to two electric traction motors that drive the car.
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Taking to Crowd Supply for funding, Gridcase's Reactor features an internal 400mAh battery and a crank-powered 500mAh generator that allows users to manually distribute power to their phone's fading cell.
When I ran out of battery power, the Volt switched over to generator power.
The on-board motor is a tiny, 3-cylinder generator that supplies electricity when the battery runs low.
In addition to the petrol engine and electric motor, the LF-CC hybrid drive system further comprises a generator, a high-performance battery, a power split device which, via planetary reduction gears, combines and re-allocates power from the engine, electric motor and generator according to operational requirements, and a compact power control unit to govern the high speed interaction of the system components.
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But the vehicle has a small gasoline-powered generator on board that can charge the battery on the fly when it gets low.
The 1.4-liter gasoline engine under the hood acts as a generator after the 16.5 kWh battery is depleted and feeds electricity back to the motor.
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Rob Peterson and Britta Gross of GM, both integral to the Volt program, dare me to guess when the car switches from battery-only to using the gas engine as a generator, and I totally miss it.
The ELR will run on an electric propulsion system made of a T-shaped lithium ion battery, an electric drive unit and a four-cylinder engine generator.
By applying the brakes or reducing speed by letting off the accelerator, the electric motor acts as an electric generator, converting energy that would otherwise be wasted into battery energy.
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Coming in 2012, a hybrid version of the flagship Audi A8 sedan will team a 2.0-liter turbocharged gasoline engine with an electric motor generator and self-charging 1.3 kWh lithium-ion battery pack to realize an impressive 37 mpg.
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