Sentences with phrase «as electricity charges»

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The plan includes the installation of a charging station at the buyer's home and as much electricity as needed, based on a tiered service that depends on how much you want to drive.

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One type, known as plastic, organic or polymer photovoltaic solar cells, uses conductive organic polymers or organic molecules to absorb light, transfer the charge and produce electricity.

We're lucky enough to have reliable and predictable power, so as long as your phone is charged and your toaster works, there's usually no need to give electricity a second thought.

As of December 1, 2009, the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, for example, offered an off - peak discount of approximately 50 % off of the regular residential electricity rate for electricity used to charge electric vehicles.

As we noted in a previous report, a proposal to the New York Public Service Commission has been submitted by Orange and Rockland Utilities for a Tesla Powerpack system that could see a 70 % reduction in the demand charges on customer electricity bills.

The threat, often referred to as the «utility death spiral,» goes like this: as customers choose to install solar panels or adopt energy efficiency measures, a utility will sell fewer units of energy and has to increase what it charges for electricity to ensure that it can still cover its fixed costs, such as grid maintenance and labor.

In the PLR, the IRS expressly states that it will treat the battery as property that «uses solar energy to generate electricity,» provided only solar energy is used to charge it.

We developed a business in a box solar kiosk, app and software platform to bring connectivity solutions using internet WIFI, intranet solution for offline users, phone charging solutions and with our app we offer additional services such as airtime, mobile money, prepaid electricity, tax payment.

It's just a reckless pie in the sky idea that Cuomo floated that's surely going to raise electricity rates, as if the nuclear bailout wasn't enough or the fact the NY is the only state to charge its residents sales tax on its utility bills.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced in February that the state was taking tough new measures against energy marketing companies, also known as ESCOs, after data showed some were charging more than utilities for gas and electricity supply.

«Polyaniline, because it can store more charge per unit of mass, could potentially store three times as much electricity as PEDOT for a given weight.»

With nowhere else to go, the charge on the electrode eventually conducts into the air around it as bolts of electricity.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

Gases (such as air, which has an equal number of positive and negative charges) become plasma when energy (such as heat or electricity) causes some of the gas's atoms to lose their negatively charged electrons, creating atoms with a positive charge, or positive ions, surrounded by the newly detached electrons.

As adoption increases, utilities will have to figure out the best way to have enough electricity on the grid to charge more and more cars without affecting rates and reliability for those with and without electric cars, he said.

Such demand response is different from using electric vehicle batteries as a form of storage or backup for the electricity grid, which can put undue strain on batteries as they constantly cycle from fully charged to nearly drained.

By charging cars and trucks with electricity at night, American drivers could reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil while potentially cutting power prices as well.

Electrons have two fundamental properties, charge and spin, generating such phenomena as electricity, magnetism, thermal conductivity, and superconductivity in materials.

In short, electric cars are only as good as the electricity that charges them.

Nuclear power is not «too cheap to meter,» and in fact, despite hundreds of billions of dollars in government subsidies and in ratepayer charges, nuclear power greatly trails other fuels as a source of electricity and is useless in providing for the world's other major energy needs, including transportation.

Using the power grid to charge automobiles strikes many as bad public policy, since coal, the dirtiest fuel, generates about 60 % of America's electricity.

Cell phone towers can be down as well, but in case they aren't it is helpful to have ways to charge phones when electricity is down.

Indeed, once you become accustomed to the regenerative braking effect (where the electric motor acts as an electricity generator to charge up the battery), it's possible to look ahead and judge when to leave off the throttle - hardly necessitating pressing the brake pedal at all.

A smartphone app lets owners monitor the car's charging process or schedule charging for certain times — such as when electricity is cheaper.

Tesla says you can charge the car for as little as $ 0.05 per kWh with the right plan, which would have reduced my electricity bill by $ 36.73.

Interestingly, the hardware that transforms the electricity from alternating current to direct current is the same as what's carried in the car for 120 - and 240 - volt charging.

Since the electric motor, which also acts as an electric generator, is attached directly to the crankshaft of the engine, the engine needs to provide as little resistance as possible during deceleration to allow the generator to produce high levels of electricity and charge the batteries.

Besides electricity to charge it, that should be all you pay apart from the odd puncture etc as servicing is included for four years.

Some plug - in hybrids such as the Chevrolet Volt won't charge the battery while under way because it's inefficient compared to recharging using electricity.

The i8's own head unit showed me different charging options, such as the ability to take advantage of low - priced electricity in the earliest hours of the morning.

In this case (and if battery charge is low), the front electric motor — which is now being supplied with kinetic energy via the TSI — acts solely as a generator and a source of electricity for its counterpart at the rear axle.

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It uses only an electric motor to move the car, while a petrol engine is used as a generator producing electricity that goes directly into propelling the electric motor or, when electricity is in excess, to charge the batteries (similar to BMW's REX).

Storing and delivering electricity is a 14.1 - kWh battery that can be charged in six hours via a standard wall outlet, or as quickly as 2.4 hours with an optional fast charger.

As we've come to expect from plug - in hybrid models, you can tailor how the system operates, with an E-mode for all - electric driving, a hybrid driving mode and options to save battery charge or generate more electricity using the petrol engine.

The e-tron SUV will ship as standard with an onboard 11 kW charger but, as of 2019, Audi will offer a second onboard charger for a total of 22 kW charging on an Audi connect charging system tapped into a smart home electricity supply.

When the car is in motion, power from the gasoline engine is split between the drivetrain — to move the car — and the generator, which uses the resultant electricity either to drive the electric motor to help turn the wheels or to power electronics, as well as to charge the battery, which can then be used to drive the car on its own.

EV mode drives the car under electricity only for as long as the battery can hold out, but even on a full charge that won't be much more than a mile.

(Only if you are paid commission or professional fees, you can file ITR - 4, in which case you can claim deductions of expenses incurred toward earning your income such as internet charges, electricity, etc..)

But you don't have to charge a lot to get the credit score benefit (in fact, it's better if you keep your credit utilization low), so you could still use cash for out - of - pocket expenses and charge one or two monthly expenses, such as your Internet and electricity bills, to your credit card.

These cover the costs of building maintenance, electricity and water charges for common areas, and the general upkeep of common areas such as a pool, lift or gym.

Does the price include electricity, as it says on the voucher there will be extra charges payable but no explanation of what?

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

In 2003 in North - America, a huge cascading failure in the electrical system caused fifty million people not to use electricity for two days: considering the causes and the effects of this event, it becomes clear that electricity can not be defined as a set of physical phenomena generating electric charge only.

The film becomes as suspenseful and charged as the painting itself — a work of great sexual energy and electricity that became a talisman openly coveted by many powerful players.»

This concept could also be extended to include a small charge on electricity usage, known as a «wires fee» that could generate additional funds for research and development of advanced power generation, storage, transmission, and demand response technologies.

If you have ever taken a long canoe or kayak trip you will recognize this as a lovely idea - a beautiful, covered rest stop, perhaps with a little electricity to charge up the camera.

As you probably know, an electricity bill is a charge for the electricity a home or business consumes.

Using the power grid to charge automobiles strikes many as bad public policy, since coal, the dirtiest fuel, generates about 60 % of America's electricity.