Sentences with phrase «electrified transportation»

Oh, and one other interesting point of note for those of us who follow electrified transportation: Chrysler is deliberately choosing to call this a «hybrid».

There was a time when battery swapping was heralded as the future of electrified transportation.

Obviously, any single company committing to any one of these steps is already a major boost for electrified transportation.

(Equally, I have no doubt that electrified transportation infrastructure, giant solar power arrays, vertical farms and other «techno - fixes» could also be of great benefit.)

It feels like there's enthusiasm building for a truly electrified transportation network.

From London's massive commitment to electric vehicles to British Colombia's partnership with Nissan Leaf, city and regional governments are getting behind electrified transportation in a big way.

This is exactly the kind of software that should help ease the transition from the gas station infrastructure of today to the smart grid, electrified transportation infrastructure of tomorrow.

Most of the power to fuel this electrified transportation system of the future is expected to come from large hydro dams, however, where the consumption of land, and the resulting environmental damage, takes an even greater toll.

The EC's Electrification Roadmap, released in November 2009, proposed a set of policies in which geographic areas would compete to be selected as electrification deployment communities: specific areas in which targeted, temporary financial incentives are employed so that all of the elements of an electrified transportation system are deployed simultaneously.

A clean grid will also enable another critical climate solution, electrified transportation.

We also provide charging infrastructure for e-mobility in response to the growing demand for electrified transportation.

Now, with oil prices crashing while the cost of production does not; with campaigners scoring victories from the Paris climate agreement to major institutional divestment from fossil fuels; and with increasingly viable competition from electrified transportation, efficiency and renewables — oil companies may be facing a unique confluence of uphill challenges.

That's just a sampling of the kind of wholesale change that may be in store as electrified transportation kicks into a higher gear.

The strategy Honda is using here is obvious — hedge your bets on green, electrified transportation by offering any and all possible powertrains under a single nameplate, regardless of the popularity of those powertrains in the moment.

We encourage you to investigate and include significant direct and indirect emissions from all fuels, including conventional petroleum, heavy oils, natural gas for transportation, oil sand - based fuels, and the range of fuels used to power electrified transportation, consistent with the best available science.

Passenger cars have been generating much of the buzz around electrified transportation, but automakers are changing that with a suite of new electrified trucks, vans and sport utility vehicles that could soon hit the market.

«We believe that our system will eliminate a barrier to electric vehicle adoption and increase the adoption of electrified transportation,» she says.

These complement each other: If we fully electrify transportation and run it off renewables or nuclear, you'd reduce the energy transportation consumed by two thirds.

As states work to electrify the transportation and the residential heating and cooling sectors, it becomes increasingly important they generate renewable energy, they said.

«If you green the electrical system and then electrify the transportation system, you also have a very good start to the solution to our global warming problems,» McCalley says.

Currently, fuel cells are primarily known for their role in electrifying transportation.

Fuel cells play a major role in creating a clean energy future, with a broad set of applications ranging from powering buildings to electrifying transportation.

«Why aren't we making better use of these advantages to electrify our transportation modes?

Conversely, Bhutan imports almost all of its transportation fuel, making the prospect of electrifying its transportation fleet an attractive one.

It became so clear that electrifying transportation and cleaning the power grid were an essential and complementary global strategy.

It also enables deeper reductions across the broader economy through the use of non-emitting electricity to electrify transportation, space heating and some industrial processes.

Taken together, it's a way to move the broad trend to electrify transportation into high gear.»

In the chapter, «If it isn't boring, it isn't green,» on page 290 he starts a new section by saying «But to get the most efficiency gains and to make the Energy Internet - smart grid complete requires that one more big piece of the puzzle be put into place — electrifying transportation, and moving as many cars, trucks, buses and trains away from exclusively combustion engines and into plug - in electric hybrids or plug - in all - electric cars.»

We support policies that expand efficiency and renewables, limit greenhouse gas emissions, and electrify transportation.

Electrifying transportation: Plug - in hybrid vehicles and rail — Running cars and trains on cheap green electricity can free us from dependence on oil and help to stabilize climate.

Then, just last week, another group of ten Senators introduced compromise legislation on oil drilling, calling for expanded drilling and tens of billions in new government investments to make clean energy cheap and electrify the transportation sector.

As we electrify transportation, disproportionately impacted communities living along major roadways will be able to breathe cleaner air, improving overall health and quality of life in those communities.

Fuel cells play a major role in creating a clean energy future, with a broad set of applications ranging from powering buildings to electrifying transportation.

Incentives to electrify transportation and heat production would increase the requirement for electricity, but cut fuel demand by yet another third.

I do agree with Hansen et al that the basic strategy is to replace virtually all of coal as quickly as possible, which is why so many of the wedges focused on electricity — that, along with the need to electrify transportation as much as possible.

A good reason to electrify transportation.

Whether the results of the trial are positive or negative, it should give valuable information about how to go about electrifying transportation, and while I don't think that battery - swapping stations are likely to become mainstream in the long run (I'm hoping that batteries will improve fast enough, and that they'll be able to better handle fast charging), it's always good to try many different things to see which comes out ahead.

In it, Rob welcomes the willingness of politicians to finally acknowledge and discuss the implications of peak oil, but he berates them for their «techno - fix mindset» which focused only on subjects like electrifying our transportation networks, while glossing over the idea that peak oil might have implications for our entire model of development or the idea that economic growth can continue indefinitely.

Some are profoundly personal and practical — like what one person can do to lower the carbon load at home — others complex endeavors such as Southern California Edison's quest to find the best batteries to electrify transportation.

The last piece is the oil piece, and the only way to do away with it is electrifying transportation.

This just highlights how it's important to electrify transportation and clean up the power grid at the same time.

There's much to dislike about the Senator, but he does understand the importance of electrifying our transportation system (too bad he wants to power it with nuclear plants).

Not exact matches

Rail transport, especially electrified rail, is much more efficient, and less damaging to the environment, than transportation by car or truck.

«The city doesn't get to its climate goals without cutting how many miles we're driving on our roads and then electrifying the difference,» said Chris Bast, climate and transportation policy adviser in Seattle's Office of Sustainability and Environment.

The transportation problem in the developing world is really interesting because its not clear that countries like India, for example, should electrify automobiles as a first strategy, whereas it is a very good strategy in the U.S. / E.U..

The way to decrease emission from oil is to increase miles - per - gallon standards for light vehicles and eventually to electrify light vehicle transportation while at the same time shifting away from coal to produce electricity to sources with much lower emissions (gas, wind, nuclear).

We're part of Google's RechargeIT Launch Video: Jun 18, 2006: 5:12 Watch the video shown at Google's RechargeIT launch event, in which CalCars» Felix Kramer, PlugInAmerica's Chelsea Sexton, Former CIA Director James Woolsey and other top advocates of «plugging in» explain all the benefits that derive from electrifying personal transportation.

There is a recent study from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) again confirming electrified roads as the technology option with the greatest reductions at the lowest cost.

The analysis finds that, although a massive shift to CNG vehicles would also lower oil consumption and emissions dramatically, it wouldn't be nearly as effective as simply electrifying a gigantic portion of our transportation sector and then using our abundant natural gas to provide the electricity.

This bill sends a clear signal that Pennsylvania is committed to electrifying and modernizing its transportation system.