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      "name": "Load profile",
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        "duty cycle",
        "drive cycle"
      ],
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      "definition": "The current or power a battery must deliver as a function of time in its application — a drive cycle for a car, a daily charge–discharge pattern for storage. Aging tests built on a realistic profile predict life better than constant-current cycling.",
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        "summary": "Replay applies an existing governed profile.",
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          "Open Drive-cycle replay.",
          "Inspect profile and scale; compare current and SOC."
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        "observe": "Current rises as voltage falls under fixed power.",
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        "lede": "How current goes in and comes out, and the limits that stop it.",
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        "example": "The same CC–CV law can operate overnight or during a short depot stop.",
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        "section": "topic-charging",
        "definition": "One discharge and one charge, in either order. A full cycle spans the whole usable capacity; a partial cycle covers only part of it, and aging tests usually report both the cycle count and the depth of discharge.",
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        "definition": "Degradation caused by charging and discharging: mechanical strain in the particles, fresh SEI on cracked surfaces and, at high rate or low temperature, lithium plating. It scales with charge throughput and grows with depth of discharge and C-rate.",
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        "section": "topic-charging",
        "definition": "Using a vehicle’s motor as a generator while slowing down, so braking energy charges the battery in short high-current pulses. A cold or full battery cannot accept it, which is one reason a BMS computes charge power limits continuously.",
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        "section": "topic-units",
        "definition": "Whatever draws current from the battery — a motor, an inverter, a resistor in a test. Loads are specified by current, power or resistance, and a battery’s behaviour depends on which of the three stays constant.",
        "related": [
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          "power",
          "load-profile",
          "discharge"
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        "mentions": [
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