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Electric power steering
Electric power steering (EPS) is a steering system where an electric motor provides assist, replacing hydraulic pumps. It debuted in 1988 and now dominates the market.
Electric power system
An electric power system is the network that generates electricity, transmits it over long distances at high voltage, and distributes it to consumers, joined at substations.
Electric power transmission
Electric power transmission is the bulk movement of electricity from power plants to load centers over high-voltage lines, kept separate from the lower-voltage distribution system serving homes and businesses.
Electric ray
Electric rays (Torpediniformes), about 60 species of batoid fishes, produce electric organ discharges up to 220 V to stun prey and repel sharks; fossils known only from Cenozoic deposits, notably Bolca.
Electric Reliability Council of Texas
The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is the independent system operator managing power for 27 million customers, about 90 percent of Texas's electric load.
Electric rickshaw
An electric rickshaw, or e-rickshaw, is a low-speed battery-powered three-wheeler carrying passengers or goods for hire, used chiefly in India, Bangladesh, and Nepal, with India the world's largest market.
Electric sail
The electric sail, or E-sail, is a propellantless spacecraft propulsion concept that uses charged tethers to extract thrust from the solar wind, proposed by Pekka Janhunen in 2004.
Electric shaver
An electric shaver is a powered grooming device that cuts facial hair with moving cutters behind a foil or rotating head, pioneered by Jacob Schick in the late 1920s.
Electric shower
The electric shower, also called the suicide shower, is a point-of-use water heater that heats cold mains water instantly as it flows, dominant in the United Kingdom and Brazil.
Electric Six
Electric Six, formerly the Wildbunch, is a Detroit rock band formed in 1996, led by Dick Valentine (Tyler Spencer), known for Fire (2003), the UK hits Danger! High Voltage and Gay Bar, and prolific yearly albums on Metropolis Records.
Electric spark
An electric spark is a sudden, transient electrical breakdown of a gas gap between electrodes, in which the gas ionizes into a luminous plasma channel carrying a burst of current.
Electric starter (motorcycle)
An electric starter on a motorcycle is a battery-powered motor that cranks the engine when the rider presses a button, replacing the kickstarter; it first appeared on a 1914 Hendee.
Electric stove
An electric stove is a kitchen appliance that cooks using electrical resistance or induction rather than burning fuel, typically combining a cooktop with an electric oven in one unit.
Electric susceptibility (χe)
Electric susceptibility (χe) is a dimensionless constant measuring how strongly a dielectric material polarizes in response to an applied electric field, related to permittivity by εr = 1 + χe.
Electric toothbrush
An electric toothbrush is a battery-powered brush with a motor-driven head that removes plaque better than a manual brush, reducing plaque by about 21% after 3 months.
Electric trolley-assist
Electric trolley-assist is a mining haulage technology in which diesel-electric haul trucks connect through pantographs to overhead lines on pit ramps, roughly doubling uphill speed while cutting diesel use.
Electric Universe
Electric Universe is a German psytrance project founded in Hamburg in 1991 by Boris Blenn and Micky Dressler, known for melodic, guitar-driven Goa and full-on trance.
Electric vehicle
An electric vehicle (EV) is a road vehicle powered by a battery and electric motor, using about 70% less energy per kilometer than a similar gasoline car.
Electric vehicle battery
An electric vehicle battery, also known as a traction battery or EV battery, is a rechargeable lithium-ion pack that supplies power to electric cars, hybrids, and plug-in hybrids.
Electric Warrior
Electric Warrior, T. Rex's second studio album under that name, released September 24, 1971 on Rhino/Reprise, produced by Tony Visconti; it topped the UK chart for six weeks and launched glam rock with "Bang A Gong (Get It On)" and "Jeepster."
Electric water boiler
An electric water boiler is an electrically powered kitchen appliance for heating drinking water, spanning electric kettles, countertop boilers and urns, instant hot-water dispensers, and plumbed-in boiling-water taps.
Electric water heater
An electric water heater is an appliance that uses electricity to heat potable water, in storage, tankless, and heat pump forms, with heat pump models roughly three times more efficient.
Electric Wiring
Electric wiring is the organized placement of conductors, cables, and related equipment to build circuits in buildings, machines, and electronics, governed in the US by the National Electrical Code.
Electric Wizard
Electric Wizard: English doom metal band formed 1993 in Dorset, England, also briefly known as Thy Grief Eternal and Eternal; name from Black Sabbath's "Electric Funeral" and "The Wizard"; landmark albums Come My Fanatics... and Dopethrone.
Electric Zoo
Electric Zoo, often shortened to EZoo, is an electronic dance music festival held over Labor Day weekend on Randall's Island in New York City, launched in 2009.
Electric-field-induced second harmonic generation spectroscopy
Electric-field-induced second harmonic generation spectroscopy (EFISHG) is a nonlinear optical technique that uses a static electric field to induce second harmonic generation in centrosymmetric materials.
Electric-field-induced superconductivity
Electric-field-induced superconductivity is the creation of superconductivity in a non-superconducting material using a gate electrode, pioneered in ZrNCl and extended in 2012 to MoS2, which turned superconducting near 9.4 K.
Electric-steam locomotive
An electric-steam locomotive either uses an on-board steam engine to generate electricity for traction motors, or draws external electricity to heat its boiler water, as in Swiss wartime conversions.
Electrica
Electrica, formally Societatea Energetica Electrica S.A., is a Romanian energy company for electricity distribution and supply, listed in Bucharest and London since 2014 and serving about 4 million customers.
Electrical balance duplexer
An electrical balance duplexer (EBD) is a four-port RF device that lets a transmitter and receiver share one antenna by canceling the transmit signal at the receiver.