recharge
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Over the last several years, work crews there have been restoring natural floodplains along rivers and creeks, building recharge basins, and routing floodwater to farm fields where it can soak into the land.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
The Semi comes in two versions, Standard Range and Long Range, with the latter able to travel about 500 miles before needing to recharge its battery.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 25, 2026
The max charging rate of 150 kW pencils out to a 10%-80% recharge in 28 minutes, under ideal conditions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
It drives on electricity but comes with the security blanket of a gas-powered generator to recharge the battery when needed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
The solar panels will recharge the battery somewhat, but there's nothing to tell the system to reboot.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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That includes “extended range electric vehicles,” battery-powered cars that have an onboard generator, running on gas, that recharges batteries on the fly.
From Barron's ● Dec. 15, 2025
It runs 15-30 minutes on a full battery, depending on the speed, and recharges in 45 minutes to about 3 hours, depending on your charger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2025
Regenerative braking in EVs, which recharges the battery, does not involve friction.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2025
The wetland attracts birds, such as coots and tricolored blackbirds, and also recharges the aquifer that the roots of cottonwoods and willows tap into.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2024
While cruising on the surface a submarine recharges her storage batteries to give her motive power when she is submerged.
From Tom Swift and His Undersea Search, or, the Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic by Victor [pseud.] Appleton
This year, drought has not developed as quickly because heavy rainfall recharged our aquifers, rivers and reservoirs during a very wet autumn and winter.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
"It stores sunlight, and it can be recharged."
From Science Daily ● May 15, 2026
These signature rings are only as powerful as the will of the wearer and periodically need to be recharged.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
Thermal batteries, such as the one being developed by Cache Energy, store heat instead of electricity, and can be recharged and discharged over and over.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 29, 2026
The Special who’d instructed her had explained that it needed as much surface area in the sun as possible while it recharged.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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Porsche quotes a minimum recharging time of 16 minutes, from 10-80% capacity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
One is the new 'overtake' mode, the other is the way the 2026 engines work, almost completely depleting and recharging batteries several times a lap.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Other agencies are recharging aquifers at dozens of sites across California and are building more facilities to replenish groundwater.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026
The distance that electric trucks can travel without recharging can be drastically cut when towing heavy loads or operating in less ideal conditions, such as cold weather.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 29, 2025
The second battery still had a little juice left, but I can't just run it down all the way before I stop; remember, I need life support while recharging.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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