Or take the case where my laptop suddenly went black, with a fully charged battery.
And by 1900, an EV could go 180 miles on one fully-charged battery.
Another, proposed by former software executive Shai Agassi, entails electric filling stations at which car owners would make a quick swap of a depleted battery for a charged battery.
Assistant State Attorney Bernie de la Rionda mentioned a 2005 case in which Mr. Zimmerman was charged with battery of a law-enforcement officer.
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Mr. Woodard was the only person arrested by police and was charged with misdemeanor battery.
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The underlying technology isn't actually that different from a credit card, but just make sure to keep the battery charged.
Using a trickle or "float" charger, often called a battery maintainer, would keep the car's battery charged automatically while it sits.
Last month, a 68-year-old Idaho man was charged with misdemeanor battery after police say he struck a teen who would not turn off his iPhone while the plane they were in was taxiing for takeoff.
After entering the planned departure time in the vehicle or the web portal the vehicle will be fully charged in a battery-saving and economical way, and pre-air conditioned if required so that it is ready to start.
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As battery range (i.e. the distance your battery fully charged will get you) becomes more of a consumer focus, increasingly compact power will become tantamount to battery choice for hybrids and electric cars.
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Fully charged, the nine battery tiles powered 40 red LEDs for more than six hours.
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And the 10, 900mAh battery is charged in part by a regenerative breaking system packed into the shuttle.
The result is that, if you wind the handle faster, it gets harder to turn, and the battery is charged more quickly.
As in Formula 1, the 400-volt battery is charged by means of targeted recuperation during braking whilst the car is being driven.
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Police arrested Aubry, 37, and charged him with misdemeanor battery, but he insisted he was not the aggressor in the fistfight, which sent him to a hospital.
Battery regeneration: Whenever the driver releases the accelerator pedal or applies the brakes, and the battery is insufficiently charged, the two electric motors act as generators and feed energy recovered from the brakes into the lithium-ion battery.
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Shouldn't I expect the battery to stay charged to at least start the car?
And in both cases you're saddled with one more battery to keep charged.
The battery can be charged either by external power sources or by the TDI engine while the vehicle is in motion.
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The feature allows a fully depleted battery to be charged to 80 percent capacity in 30 minutes using a 480-volt power source.
Coasting: As soon as the driver releases the accelerator pedal, the engine and electric motors are decoupled from the drivetrain and the engine is shut off, provided that the battery is sufficiently charged.
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When LeMieux was hiking the Appalachian Trail a decade ago, he identified the problem that would become the focus of his work: how to turn the kinetic energy of a hiker into electrical energy that could keep devices charged (and reduce the battery weight he carried for 1, 500 miles).
Now the battery is easily removable and can be charged in all sorts of ways, like clipping it into a charger powered by a car battery or solar panel.
The 22 kW on-board charger enables a completely empty battery to be fully charged in less than an hour.
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The battery can be fully charged by a 7-kilowatt fast charger in four hours, or a 3-kilowatt charger in 10 hours.
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The car uses a 1.8-liter, 98-horsepower four-cylinder gasoline engine with an 80 hp (60 kW) electric motor charged on a Ni-MH battery.
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The use of a rechargeable battery, which can be charged up with energy from the spring several times, and then occasionally topped up during use, dramatically reduces its size and weight.
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