Sentence examples for mechanical drive from inspiring English sources

Water turbines, used originally for direct mechanical drive for irrigation, now are used almost exclusively to generate electric power.

These unique engines are used for marine, locomotive, and mechanical drive applications and for electrical-power generation.

VanDyne pays to use the laboratory's resources, including several students, to conduct durability and emissions testing on its SuperTurbo technology, a device that adds a two-way mechanical drive to a turbocharger.

Power trucks are propelled by batteries and an electric-motor drive or by an internal-combustion engine with either a mechanical drive or a generator and electric-motor drive.

Peter Teagan, a director at Arthur D. Little, a down-to-earth technology consulting firm, puts it this way: "The question of fuel cells is much bigger than fuel cells themselves: once you have an electric drive vehicle, whether that is using fuel cells or a hybrid, you are already beyond the world of the internal combustion vehicle and the mechanical drive vehicle.

In 1990, after years of building prototypes, Fendt combined a hydrostatic drive and a mechanical drive.

Although they are more expensive, bigger, heavier and in theory less efficient than mechanical drives, they use much less fuel.

"We are almost at the limits of technology and affordability in making improvements in mechanical drives".Electric drives offer other advantages, too.

Almost a century ago, around the time of the emergence of modern ship propulsion, electric drives were seen as viable contenders to compete with the then-rising mechanical drives.

These engines are used in automobiles, light trucks, and some agricultural and construction applications and as small stationary electrical-power generators (such as those on pleasure craft) and as mechanical drives.

Bye-bye mechanical drives.