With this action, Nissan becomes the first and only manufacturer in the automotive industry to provide limited warranty coverage for battery capacity loss for electric vehicles.

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This should also be an opportunity for Westinghouse, which has designed the third-generation AP1000 reactor to shut down safely even in the event of complete loss of electric power.

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For example, the task force said that the NRC should require plant owners to put measures into place to help workers cope with a loss of electric power and its on-site emergency backups, called a station blackout.

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Recent work has also demonstrated that at suitably low temperatures they can act as superconductors transmitting an electric current indefinitely, without power loss.

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The electric vehicle company posted a wider loss than expected despite more than doubling its revenues, sending the stock down in afterhours trading.

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Under an expanded New Electric Vehicle Limited Warranty, Nissan will protect against capacity loss in LEAF batteries that fall below nine bars, of the available 12 bars displayed on the vehicle's battery capacity gauge, for the first five years or 60, 000 miles in the United States, whichever comes first.

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Similarly, the state-owned electric-power company has been selling imported power at a loss.

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It's all released in one colossal rush during the chorus, when everything about the song (the electric guitars, the drums, the vocals, the confusion and loss of the lyric) locks in and unloads all at once.

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Predictions for 2050 suggest a 40% loss of forest, meaning significantly less rain and 35-40 less electric power.

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This does not square with experience at Mitsubishi Electric, the weakest of Japan's big three electrical groups, which is expecting to halve its loss on semiconductors this year compared with 1997.

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A. In addition to the coverage provided under the existing Nissan New Electric Vehicle Limited Warranty, this expanded warranty applicable to LEAF vehicles in the United States will protect against capacity loss in LEAF batteries that falls below nine bars, of the available 12 bars displayed on the vehicle's battery capacity gauge, for the first 5 years or 60, 000 miles, whichever comes first.

ENGADGET: Nissan upgrades US Leaf warranties, will 'restore' batteries that lose too much charge