Sentences with phrase «electric technology by»

Hybrid stalwarts Honda and Toyota are making a move to capitalize on their early investment in gas - electric technology by increasing production numbers, lowering costs, and offering hybrids for around $ 20,000.

BMW ActiveHybrid 535i The ActiveHybrid 5 - series advances BMW's gas / electric technology by allowing the car to operate for brief periods in an electric - only mode, which isn't true of the hybrid 7 - series.

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Electric cars and connected cars are among the technologies being developed by Chinese companies like Qiantu Motor and LeEco.

Just ask electric vehicle producer Tesla Motors, which until now has basked in the glow cast by its founder, technology Midas Elon Musk.

Amazon greatly improved its business by exploring product categories other than books and car manufacturers are currently investing billions in electric car technology in order to be able to compete in a post-carbon world.

BMW also says it aims to incorporate the technology in an electric car by 2023, increasing power capacity by 10 % to 15 % over lithium - ion batteries.

However a rapid fall in lithium ion battery prices over the past two years — driven by the proliferation of electric cars — has made the technology far more viable.

The split, announced by Pentair's board one year ago, is seen as a way to get Pentair's remaining water technology company and the new nVent Electric to grow faster.

It was driven by a flurry of technologies — electric lights, telephones, automobiles, indoor plumbing — that fundamentally transformed millions of American lives within a matter of decades.

For the past week, as the electric - car maker Tesla has been buffeted by a barrage of negative news, Elon Musk, its chief executive, has offered no public comments on the company's shaky finances, its slumping stock price or the increasing questions about the safety of its self - driving technology.

Utility Hawaiian Electric has announced the start of operations of a pilot project featuring flywheel energy storage technology provided by Amber Kinetics.

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The electric car was designed by former Apple, BMW and Nissan employees and features a large touchscreen dashboard and voice - command technology.

I'm thinking technology will help move us beyond oil much more by that time (electric cars.

As for costs of operation — chief among them being product delivery — technologies like driverless, autonomous electric vehicles, which are already test - driving around Las Vegas, are sure to be rapidly adopted by major courier companies as it becomes feasible to do so, substantially reducing delivery costs.

Suncor is also looking to address the environmental issues by collaborating with General Electric (NYSE: GE) to develop technologies to will lower water usage in oil sands production and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

It's easy to be excited by new technology, like artificial intelligence, 3D printing, autonomous electric vehicles, and ride sharing.

The sum WM said it's raised is a show of confidence in a startup competing with more than 200 Chinese electric - vehicle companies, some backed by the likes of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s Jack Ma, Foxconn Technology Group's Terry Gou and Tencent Holdings Ltd.'s Ma Huateng.

The New York Times reports that China is taking a hard line on the two specific requests made by the Trump administration: to cut the US bilateral trade deficit by $ 100bn from the current $ 375bn, as well as limits to state support for advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, semiconductors, electric cars, and commercial aircraft, all part of the Made in China 2025 programme.

To tackle carbon emissions and air pollution, the country has become a leader in clean technology by embracing, wind, solar, nuclear, electric cars, and carbon capture.

It's powered by a 1000 + watt advanced technology Go - Ped electric motor that offers top performance and reliability.

It is powered by a 1000 + watt advanced technology Go - Ped electric motor.

Electric vehicle and hydrogen fuel cell technologies are dominated by the US, Germany and Japan - and are in any case estimated to be around 20 - 30 years away commercially.

Heated by electric Halo Halogen technology, this indoor cooker rotates, while cooking quickly and evenly.

They are made by companies with a long history of manufacturing incandescent lights, such as General Electric Co. and Philips, which are now promoting the new technology.

Tesla's silent electric cars have made a lot of noise in the auto industry by combining cutting - edge green technology with fashionable good looks.

Patrick Davis, the office's program manager, and Dave Howell, its team lead for hybrid - electric technology, think the batteries can near $ 300 by 2015.

Instead of rocketing astronauts off into deep space, the Asteroid Redirect Mission would send a robotic spacecraft to a small asteroid, secure it (potentially by grabbing it and stuffing it into a giant high - tech bag) and tow it back to orbit the moon using a hyper - efficient kind of rocket engine technology called solar electric propulsion.

That is the promise of a new holographic digital storage technology being developed by General Electric and coming to a computer near you around 2012.

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The Electric Power Research Institute's report on decarbonizing electricity generation said an «aggressive» push on new technologies could lower 2005 - level carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 41 percent in 2030.

RailPower Technologies Corp.'s Green Goat diesel — electric «switcher» — a small, short - distance locomotive for assembling, disassembling and moving trains in rail yards — was a promising technology powered primarily by batteries (even when it idled) and employed its diesel engine only to recharge the batteries.

Earlier this year researchers at KAIST (the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) in Daejeon, South Korea, demonstrated their Online Electric Vehicle (Olev), which is powered by an electromagnetic field generated by strips buried in the road.

In an effort to create a power source for future implantable technologies, a team led by Michael Mayer from the University of Fribourg, along with researchers from the University of Michigan and UC San Diego, developed an electric eel - inspired device that produced 110 volts from gels filled with water, called hydrogels.

The Online Electric Vehicle (OLEV), developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), is an electric vehicle that can be charged while stationary or driving, thus removing the need to stop at a charging Electric Vehicle (OLEV), developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), is an electric vehicle that can be charged while stationary or driving, thus removing the need to stop at a charging electric vehicle that can be charged while stationary or driving, thus removing the need to stop at a charging station.

The three - year Living Lab Bus project comprises the projects of Ajeco (secure multichannel communications), Cinia One (cloud services and interfaces), EEE Innovations (smart transport ICT solutions), Foreca (weather and road weather services), iQ Payments (mobile payment solutions) and Linkker (electric bus), as well as the supporting research projects by VTT, Aalto University, University of Tampere and Tampere University of Technology.

«I've been struck by their work in energy efficiency, electric vehicle, renewable energy, coal technology.

NREL's work was supported by the Energy Department's Vehicle Technology Office under the Battery for Advanced Transportation Technologies (BATT) program, which focuses on reducing the cost and improving the performance and durability of the lithium - ion batteries that power electric vehicles.

Furthermore, since magnets containing rare earths are used in a wide range of technologies, including electric motors, wind turbines, and medical imaging devices, including MRI scanners — manufacturers would be able to improve the sustainability of their products by recycling these materials.

Published by the Condensed Matter research group at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (NORDITA) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, the Organic Materials Database is intended as a data mining resource for research into the electric and magnetic properties of crystals, which are primarily defined by their electronic band structure — an energy spectrum of electrons motion which stem from their quantum - mechanical properties.

This gap in research has now been closed by scientists of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT): They compared the performances of 49,000 battery electric cars and 73,000 plug - in hybrid vehicles in Germany and the US using data from fleet trials and automotive manufacturers as well as from websites for drivers to manage and monitor their vehicles.

A technology developed by Purdue researchers could provide an «instantly rechargeable» method that is safe, affordable and environmentally friendly for recharging electric and hybrid vehicle batteries through a quick and easy process similar to refueling a car at a gas station.

«The results, which demonstrate a reduction in both noise and energy consumption, raise the interesting issue of a technology «transfer» by which conventional cars could be fitted with tires developed for electric cars, combined with a re-assessment of what road surfacing textures should be used in heavy traffic areas.

If today's European carbon prices were applied to the U.S., most utilities would not automatically install new power generation technologies, according to a study by the Electric Power Research Institute.

«We want a demonstration of the technology by an end - user,» such as an electric utility, says Geiling.

Although artificial - muscle technology can weigh significantly less than comparable electric motors — the polymers themselves have the density of water — efforts are ongoing at SRI to cut their mass by reducing the need for the external structure that prestrains the polymers.

By incorporating a lens that changes optical parameters in response to an electric current, the innovative technology can produce higher quality images than currently available and could make eye examinations faster and more comfortable for patients by avoiding the need to undergo imaging with multiple instruments to look at different areas of the eyBy incorporating a lens that changes optical parameters in response to an electric current, the innovative technology can produce higher quality images than currently available and could make eye examinations faster and more comfortable for patients by avoiding the need to undergo imaging with multiple instruments to look at different areas of the eyby avoiding the need to undergo imaging with multiple instruments to look at different areas of the eye.

«That's why we are concentrating on building high - technology combustion engine cars, hybrid cars, as well as electric cars powered either by batteries or fuel cells.

Already, such issues have driven major companies such as General Electric to opt for competing technologies, investing in thin - film solar cells made from cadmium telluride by PrimeStar.

«Through our theoretical analysis, we've shown that by keeping the same peristalsis hardware, we may obtain an enhanced on - the - fly controllability of the flow rate by augmenting the device with electric fields,» said Suman Charkraborty, a professor in the institute's Mechanical Engineering Department, and the Head of its School of Medical Science and Technology.