Torino, Italy and Utrecht, the Netherlands have also fitted wireless charging equipment to some of their bus stops to allow the vehicles to top up power while drivers take short breaks.
For example, action could be taken to stop repeat assessments for disability benefits for those with chronic ill-health, or to use top-up powers to top up UK benefits".
He didn't promise that I'll be able to summit the highest peaks, but he said the ability to flick a switch and top up pedal power with battery power would give me the extra push I needed to master the Ardennes – a region which would normally be out of my league.
The latest version can even top up its batteries with solar power, or send its owner a text message if it gets into trouble trying to climb a mole-hill.But there is still only a limited range of domestic robots.
Keep that tank topped up.
Keep the water topped up.
The concept car - which was developed from a collaboration between Ford, the Georgia Institute of Technology and SunPower Corp, a solar power company - will still have a conventional electrical charging socket so its charge can be topped up from the power grid.
A vast biomass boiler will produce communal electricity, topped up by hydro-electric power from the ebb and flow of the river.
The UK capital's new buses are not just going electric to cut emissions, but if new tests by Transport for London (TfL) go well they could revolutionise urban travel thanks to a recharging system that will keep power topped up, even when the bus is on the job.
Take that a step further and remember you can also power the top up or down while driving at up to 30 miles per hour.
