Sentence examples for household outlets from inspiring English sources

Yoshitaka Asakura, an engineer who heads Toyota's hybrid powertrain development efforts, said the company's experience with the all-electric RAV4-EV, which needed special charging equipment, convinced them that consumers would not buy a plug-in vehicle unless it used ordinary household outlets and required just a few hours to charge.

The e-tron ships with a Level 2, 240-volt/40 amps residential charger that's also compatible with 120-volt household outlets.

Household outlets are typically 240 volts in most of the world, and 120 volts in the US and some other countries.[3].

(Charging from a household outlet takes up to 24 hours).

They are charged by plugging into a household outlet.

Each has a built-in charger, and the batteries can be replenished by plugging into a standard household outlet.

It takes about eight hours to fully recharge the battery on the standard American 110-volt household outlet.

Not to worry, the Roadster has a built-in battery charger, so all it needs is power from a readily available source like a standard household outlet.

In local driving, the Volt operates like an electric car, drawing energy from a large battery that can be recharged by plugging it into a household outlet.

Plug-in hybrids will use larger battery packs and recharge from a household outlet for 10 to 30 miles of electric-only driving.

This reduces recharge times to less than eight hours, from about 20, and it lets Leaf drivers plug the Nissan charging cord into any 240-volt household outlet, typically used for appliances like clothes dryers.