"traction battery" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "traction batteries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "traction battery (plural traction batteries)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: accessory battery"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959 November, “Talking of Trains: S.R. Motor Luggage Vans”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 523, 526",
          "text": "In order to avoid the use of shunting locomotives at the ports a 230 amp./hr. traction battery is provided so that the vans can move under their own power on to the necessarily unelectrified quayside lines.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 May 6, “Network News: '165' at Derby for hybrid conversion”, in Rail, page 15",
          "text": "At Derby, the '165' will be fitted with Magtec traction motors, range extender engines and traction batteries.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A rechargeable battery used to power the electric motor(s) of a battery electric vehicle (BEV) or hybrid electric vehicle (HEV)."
      ],
      "id": "en-traction_battery-en-noun-i3hBID7q",
      "links": [
        [
          "rechargeable",
          "rechargeable"
        ],
        [
          "electric motor",
          "electric motor"
        ],
        [
          "battery electric vehicle",
          "battery electric vehicle"
        ],
        [
          "BEV",
          "BEV"
        ],
        [
          "hybrid electric vehicle",
          "hybrid electric vehicle"
        ],
        [
          "HEV",
          "HEV"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "traction battery"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "traction batteries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "traction battery (plural traction batteries)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Coordinate term: accessory battery"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1959 November, “Talking of Trains: S.R. Motor Luggage Vans”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 523, 526",
          "text": "In order to avoid the use of shunting locomotives at the ports a 230 amp./hr. traction battery is provided so that the vans can move under their own power on to the necessarily unelectrified quayside lines.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 May 6, “Network News: '165' at Derby for hybrid conversion”, in Rail, page 15",
          "text": "At Derby, the '165' will be fitted with Magtec traction motors, range extender engines and traction batteries.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A rechargeable battery used to power the electric motor(s) of a battery electric vehicle (BEV) or hybrid electric vehicle (HEV)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rechargeable",
          "rechargeable"
        ],
        [
          "electric motor",
          "electric motor"
        ],
        [
          "battery electric vehicle",
          "battery electric vehicle"
        ],
        [
          "BEV",
          "BEV"
        ],
        [
          "hybrid electric vehicle",
          "hybrid electric vehicle"
        ],
        [
          "HEV",
          "HEV"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "traction battery"
}