Sentences with phrase «based electric transportation»

Jetson, a Brooklyn - based electric transportation company, recently launched its Adventure model e-bike, which is now available from Walmart and Kohl's and Amazon, and at first glance, it appears to be nothing other than a conventional bicycle.

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The reservation of 100 units of Tesla's all - electric truck represents the largest pre-order to date, a significant milestone for the Silicon Valley - based company who's looking to disrupt the commercial trucking industry with more affordable and environmentally conscious transportation.

That complements the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority's recent $ 138 million order for electric buses from New Flyer and China - based BYD as it too replaces thousands of natural gas vehicles.

«International experience shows that cleaning up the air doesn't need to rely on electric vehicles,» said Los Angeles - based An Feng, director of the Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation.

NÜWIEL, a Hamburg - based startup that is working on «clean transportation solutions for last mile delivery,» is teasing out information about its electric bike trailer, which could be a method of leveraging pedal power and zero (tailpipe) carbon emissions for deliveries and running errands without committing to an electric bicycle for all bike trips.

Third, the likely change from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles in the transportation sector also effectively links transportation, and its fuel use, to the electricity generation sector and its fuel use (renewable or fossil fuel based).

If installed solar cells were free, how long would it be before they were supplying base load power for the country and powering the electric motors that replaced all those IC engines that are currently powering our transportation infrastructure?

If the state General Assembly and Governor Tom Wolf enact the bill, which enjoys support from utilities, vehicle manufacturers, electric vehicle (EV) charging service providers, business associations, renewable energy companies, faith - based organizations, and environmental organizations, Pennsylvania will pave the way for a bold, modern, and clean transportation future.

For instance, Bloomberg New Energy Finance forecasts that electric vehicles will be «price competitive on an unsubsidized basis beginning in 2025,» indicating that by the end of the forecast period for CELT 2018, the region may be in the midst of a substantial shift towards electrification of the transportation industry.

Take a small example: Moving away from internal - combustion automobiles and trucks means more than just swapping in electric vehicles and expanding public transit; it also means building the infrastructure to support the new transportation system (chargers, added bus lines, additional electric power plants), retraining the people whose livelihoods were based on maintaining conventional vehicles, changing how cities are laid out and much more.

Because the proposed carbon tax is on only one sector of the economy, the overall goal of carbon reductions could fail simply because driving up the price of electricity makes the conversion to electric based residential heating and transportation more difficult.

For electric generation 9 % renewable (when including hydroelectric) is correct but that percentage decreases drastically when adding non-electric energy use for transportation which is nearly 100 % petroleum based, for direct residential and commercial heating, which is nearly 100 % gas and fuel oil based, for heavy industry, which is almost exclusively petroleum (petro - chem industry) and coal (steel - industry) and construction, which uses almost exclusively diesel fuels.