Most appliance motors today have a single speed, go on and off frequently (think about your air conditioner or fridge) and hog power on startup, enough to dim the lights.
The battery powers a high-response 80kW AC synchronous motor, rated at 107 horsepower and 187 lb-ft of torque, which drives the front wheels through a single speed reducer.
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The vehicle has a single-speed transmission that makes it feel sprightly off the line, producing acceptable acceleration (reported at 9.5 seconds from zero to 60), good for around town, and a top speed limited to 85 miles per hour.
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Beneath its carbon fiber skin the 6.5-litre V12 engine and seven-speed single-clutch gearbox get the car to 60 miles per hour in a flat three seconds.
Google entered the scene with a gleaming four-part corrective: purity, accuracy, speed and single-mindedness.
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Bringing together lots of radio stations in a single online player should speed technological progress.
The car can travel 186 miles, more than the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt, on a single charge with a top speed of 87 miles per hour.
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The new single-laser fiber-optic speed record was set using a technique called fast Fourier transform that pulses light at an incredibly high rate with data encoded in 325 distinct colors across the spectrum.
The PENTAX Q10's high speed continuous shooting mode allows the photographer to capture up to five images (in JPEG recording format) in a single sequence, at a maximum speed of approximately five images per second.
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Now comes the tantalizing possibility of combining speed and versatility on a single chip.
And, by encouraging a single European capital market, it may speed up corporate restructuring.
"He wrapped a piece of emery cloth around the work piece, rotating at high speed, whilst leaving a single glove on one hand, " he said.
In other words, no single category of renewable energy is growing anywhere near the speed it needs to bear the full brunt of displacing carbon-emitting fossil fuels anytime soon.
In the past few years, those countries that have most liberalised their energy industries, such as Britain, have been pressing the commission to speed up the creation of an EU-wide single market in electricity and gas.
Sharing games over a single wireless network sets the scene for sharing games over high-speed wireless, whether 802.11 or 4G.
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Now, imagine every single device in the store was hooked to a ubiquitous, high-speed wireless network.
If Ellison wins, he can force Bertarelli into a match against his DoGZilla, which has an anticipated top speed of more than 40mph, compared with about 20mph for single-hulled Cup boats.
The craft is meant to speed off a runway and accelerate gracefully into orbit in a single blast, perform a task like launching a satellite and then glide back home to its hangar.
Reviewers agreed that its inclusion helped significantly improve single-threaded performance, to the point where the faster (in default clock speed) 3.4GHz Phenom II X4 965 was falling behind in benchmarks.
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Barra's mission is to make the hard product decisions early--and stick with them--so that GM can speed the transition to "global architectures": meaning the use of single sets of components for vehicles worldwide to drive up GM's economies of scale.
The Vatican decided early on to speed up the criminal proceedings by reducing the accusations against the butler to a single charge of "aggravated theft".
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Dell have consolidated hundreds of smaller applications onto a single, global platform, reducing IT complexity, saving millions in IT costs, and increasing the speed and agility of their businesses.
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" Moving on, you'll also see that exceeding 5GB of usage during any single billing period gives Verizon the right to "reduce throughput speeds of any application that would otherwise exceed such speed to a maximum of approximately 200Kbps.
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It seemed to him unreasonable that the earth, on the contrary, would always travel at the same speed regardless of its distance from the sun, and when he got that straightened out, he single-handedly improved the accuracy of predicted positions by an order of magnitude.
The single solution on a card joins tap-to-pair functionality and ease-of-use of NFC with speed, coverage and performance benefits of 5G WiFi to create the ideal platform for highly-mobile devices.
These waves travel at the speed of sound, but when a jet travels at Mach 1 and above these waves merge into one single shock wave as they cannot get out of the way of each other quickly enough.
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