Good thing you can pre-heat (or pre-cool) your Leaf like you can your oven.

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Other potential examples: an app that suggests a midpoint for a client meeting, or that can pre-heat your oven and turn up your home thermostat when you get close to home.

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The 59-acre (24 hectare) site will also boast a solar thermal hot water system to pre-heat the water for the heating system, and a biomass boiler that will provide heat using locally-sourced wood chips.

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Future trends could also benefit Walmart as pre-paid smartphone sales heat up and contract based plans get a boost from lower-priced handsets.

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It also features a boil sensor which helps eliminate boil-overs by alerting the user or automatically reducing heat to a pre-set level.

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The pre-cooler, also known as the heat exchanger, is made up of a huge number of tubes that use compressed helium to cool the air around it.

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The Pacers warmed up at the basket the Heat typically use, and just about every starter kept pre-game pleasantries such as handshakes and quick hugs to a minimum.

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And the lease is more valuable today than before James arrived in South Beach for the 2010-11 season because the Heat generate more money from the arena now than they did pre-James.

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