Sentence examples for storing electricity from inspiring English sources

E. Georg von Kleist, (born c. 1700, Prussian Pomerania?—died Dec. 11, 1748, Köslin, Pomerania?) German administrator and cleric who discovered (1745) the Leyden jar, a fundamental electric circuit element for storing electricity, now usually referred to as a capacitor.

The company envisions electric cars as, essentially, rolling batteries storing electricity until periods of peak need, then transmitting some of it back to the grid in exchange for payment or free power the next time they need to top up.

Tesla Motors shares slipped on Thursday after a month-long surge ahead of chief executive Elon Musk's expected announcement that the money-losing electric luxury car maker will seek new revenues from batteries for storing electricity at homes and businesses.

"The main challenge is storing electricity," he said.

It would be ideal for storing electricity from renewable sources, says Dr Aurbach.

These include hydrogen fuel and fast-breeder reactors, biomass conversion, and superconducting magnets for storing electricity.

In the future, an electric vehicle that can store electricity might be added to such a system.

"But the reality is today that, for energy companies, electric cars are an opportunity, to help the grid store electricity and regulate it.

Hybrid vehicles like Toyota's Prius, which are propelled by both gasoline and electric motors, now use nickel metal hydride batteries to store electricity.

Since it is hard to store electricity in large volumes, any excess electricity is wasted.

A team at an infant company is using tiny carbon structures called nanotubes to store electricity.