An updated version of the electric Ford Focus will include a DC fast - charge function that will restore the battery to 80 per
cent capacity over an estimated 30 minutes, as well as a range of 160 kilometres.
Not exact matches
The central bank upped its estimate for potential growth — how fast an economy at full
capacity can expand without generating too much inflation — to 1.8 per
cent over the next two years from a projection of 1.6 per
cent in the January report.
According to currently available information on planned coal port expansions, committed investment will increase port
capacity by an estimated 13 per
cent over the next two years or so.
Although there is substantial uncertainty
over the timing and size of expansions, the analysis suggests that new
capacity coming on stream between mid 2004 and 2007 would imply an increase in overall production of around 28 per
cent from the levels of 2003/04, corresponding to annual growth of about 9 per
cent.
Strong productivity growth, combined with moderating wage growth and ample spare
capacity in the economy, led to unit labour costs falling by 1.7 per
cent over the year to the December quarter.
Last week Barry Callebaut said it will boost its cocoa processing
capacity in Ivory Coast by 50 per
cent over the next two years, and will double the amount of beans it buys, while Cargill has recently built a new plant in Ghana.
In the Lachlan catchment, 65.6 gigalitres of Commonwealth environmental water was carried
over, which is equivalent to 5.2 per
cent of the storage
capacity in that catchment.
At Heathrow, demand by 2006 was far in excess of runway
capacity and
over the previous five years passenger growth had been just
over 5 per
cent compared to 27 per
cent at UK airports overall.
Despite assurances by the NNPC, scepticisms are high
over the
capacity of the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, PPMC, to meet about 80 per
cent of Nigerians daily PMS consumption demand of 40 million.
«We are also of the strong opinion that for an industry that has recorded globally appreciable growth
over the years, contributing an average of 9 per
cent to the country's GDP, the sector has
capacity to contribute to the expansion of knowledge in the academia and consequently profit from such contribution.
It was US $ 40 under the original deal but we have negotiated it down to US $ 32... the
capacity charge whether they produce electricity or not... under the old deal it was 6.275
cents, under the new one which they had already signed we have negotiated it downwards to 5.095 which is a reduction of
over 20 percent and then the subsequent 10 years that we have given them I goes down to 4.0».
The government wants to increase
capacity on the railways to accommodate 180 million more passengers
over the next seven years, representing growth of 20 per
cent.
The government's review of the UK energy supply published today (26 / July) highlights the dreadful performance of wind power, with
over 1830 turbines with combined
capacity of 2GW reducing fuel consumption in (and emissions from) UK power stations by tiny and irrelevant fraction of one per
cent.
Mr Stokes told The Educator increasing schools»
capacity to accomodate students would be a priority, as the state's population is expected to grow by 28 per
cent over the next 20 years, with an additional 164,000 public school students in NSW by 2031.
But 2,000 respondents to an Ipsos MORI survey have faith in the
capacity of comprehensive schools to enable social mobility, with 47 per
cent backing high - quality schools
over other educational alternatives, such as lowering tuition fees, to help poor pupils.
This does not affect boot space, which measures 279 litres, a 50 per
cent increase in
capacity over the Vanquish cabrio's predecessor, the Aston DBS Volante.
Under the new GST, large luxury cars and SUVs with engine
capacity of
over 1,500 cc are slated to attract a 15 per
cent cess
over and above peak rate of 28 per
cent, thereby bringing down the overall tax incidence compared to around 50 per
cent under the previous taxation system.
In total, the new routes and additional flights represent the addition of
over 65,000 extra seats, taking the total number of seats on sale from London Stansted to
over 875,000 - a
capacity increase of eight per
cent.
Solar Photovoltaics (PV) are already growing rapidly and has been the fastest - growing renewable energy technology in the world
over the last decade: the IEA believes that cumulative PV
capacity has grown at just under 50 per
cent per year on average since 2003.
Wind energy has been the largest source of new electricity generation in Canada
over the last five years and Canada's installed wind energy
capacity has grown by an average 23 per
cent a year
over that period.
According to Wind Power in Europe, wind energy was not only the leading source of new electricity generation in 2014 (representing 44 per
cent of new installed
capacity), it has been the largest source of new electricity generating
capacity in Europe
over the last 15 years.
The Canadian market was split between seven wind turbine manufacturers in 2014, however,
over 98 per
cent of new wind
capacity came from five manufacturers.
The country accounts for
over 40 per
cent of the UK's onshore and offshore wind power
capacity.
PV could add another 10 % of a plant's total
capacity, or
over 10 MW on the tower of a 100 MW tower CSP plant with LCOE of under 5
cents per kWh.
Anaerobic digestion
capacity has grown 18 per
cent over the last year, but with more support from government it could get bigger, industry claims
Bloomberg recently published a report stating 1.3
cents / kilowatt hour rate in Russia which also has excess power
capacity of 20 gigawatts might give them an edge in terms of cost efficient power consumption
over China.