Sentences with phrase «for electric transport»

By transitioning our fleet of 13,300 company cars to electric vehicles (EVs,) we are sending a strong market signal of demand for electric transport, helping to accelerate mass roll - out, bring down costs and make electric cars affordable for everyone across the globe.

Mr Lew said that the Republic is considered an ideal location for electric transport test - bedding because of its small size, compact urban environment, robust power grid, infocomm infrastructure, and research and development capabilities.

The future wil have to be electric vehicles but aircraft and freight are not ideally suited as yet for electric transport (if they ever will be) so although it will one day be an effective solution it is as yet not an answer.

Not exact matches

Now, like Uber and Lyft in the ride - hailing market before them, electric scooter sharing startups are warring for the hearts and minds of customers and investors alike — while also battling with local authorities to be recognized as a legitimate mode of transport.

The electric sled would allow for cars to be transported at 125 mph through the tunnel, Musk has said.

Musk, the chief executive of electric car maker Tesla Inc (tsla) and rocket company SpaceX (spacex), recently started the Boring Company to build transport tunnels for the system, which he says would be far faster than current high - speed trains and use electromagnetic propulsion.

In 2016, Musk founded Neuralink, which is trying to find a way for computers to interact directly with the human brain, and the Boring Company, which is building tunnels to transport people and cargo using another proposed new technology — electric sleds.

Electric cars move into the mainstream quickly, but decarbonising the transport sector also requires much more stringent efficiency measures across the board, notably for road freight.

Meanwhile, in his spare time, Musk draws up plans for revolutionary transport systems, such as the Hyperloop and VTOL supersonic jet aircraft known as the Musk electric jet.

Because this electric fireplace is so compact, it's easy to move from room - to - room as needed, and it even has a handle for easy transport.

The lower map shows existing high - voltage lines capable of transporting wind - generated power in red; lines needed to meet the 2030 goal for renewable energy, according to the American Electric Power / American Wind Energy Association plan, are shown in green.

In the past two years David Awschalom and his colleagues at the University of California at Santa Barbara have demonstrated new and ultrafast means for generating, transporting, and manipulating spins in semiconductors at up to 100 GHz using electric fields.

According to new research, the electric bike is responsible for dramatic changes in people's transport patterns.

The Living Lab Bus joint project, coordinated by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and launched at the beginning of 2016, uses the Finnish electric buses acquired by Helsinki Region Transport as concrete development and testing platforms for businesses to validate their solutions in a real use environment.

Because they're stable, only a few nanometers in size, and need just small electric currents to transport them, skyrmions hold potential as the basis for ultra-compact and energy - efficient information storage and processing devices in the future.

In a follow - up to a 2014 report that presented a way to use the flagellated bacteria Serratia marcescens and an electric field to make a microrobot mobile, MinJun Kim, PhD, a professor in the College of Engineering and director of Drexel's Biological Actuation, Sensing & Transport (BAST) Lab, is now offering a method for making them agile.

In other words we will test whether terminals on the outskirts of Oslo can be used as loading and unloading facilities where goods can be sorted and transhipped to electric vehicles for the last stage of their transport into the centre.

The government - funded agency Transnova — the transport industry's equivalent of Enova — has initiated a project in which SINTEF researchers will make an assessment of the electric buses on the market and find out which are suitable for use in Norway.

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Each time a network is activated — the information recalled for review or use — the connections become stronger and faster (speed through a circuit is largely determined by the layers of myelin coating that are built up around the axons — this is also in response to the flow of the electric current of information transport when the circuit is activated).

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And there's more, with Musk's announcement that he sees a need for heavy - duty electric trucks and «high passenger - density urban transport», which means buses, and autonomous ones at that.

The rear seats fold up and down with the help of an electric motor and some models even offer a storage area specifically designed for the front tire of a bike to assist in transporting it inside the vehicle.

This diminutive two - seater has been streaking around our city streets for two decades now and Daimler has seen sense and equipped it with an electric motor and battery for zero emissions and whisper - quiet urban transport.

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«People can build and sell quite impressive electric cars today for transport, we will build cars that are perhaps more about entertainment than just transport.»

A pair of Australian inventors have developed a concept for a retrofitted electric drive unit to convert conventional heavy - duty transport vehicles to plug - in hybrids.

Although much of the focus for e-mobility news is on consumer electric vehicles, which would help reduce emissions in the light - duty vehicles category, commercial transport is another huge industry altogether, and one that is responsible for some 23 % of the US transportation sector's greenhouse gas emissions.

And if the current crop of electric scooter launches is any indication, there's a significant demand for these types of transport, which isn't fully «last mile» transport, necessarily, as most of them are too heavy or too bulky to realistically put into a trunk or bring on transit with you, but rather «local mile» transport for shorter trips from home or work.

Or at least a pretty affordable, pretty efficient mode of electric transport for the eco-minded and Segway - deprived?

Of course, that doesn't preclude states adopting particular rules in addition — such as California's low carbon standards for transport fuels and electric power.

Electric cars move into the mainstream quickly, but decarbonising the transport sector also requires much more stringent efficiency measures across the board, notably for road freight.

In its scenario, the share of renewables in road transport (including biofuels and renewable electricity for electric vehicles) is expected to increase only marginally, from 4.2 % in 2016 to 4.8 % in 2022.

But to fully capitalize on the potential of electric vehicles for reducing climate - altering carbon emissions from the transport sector, an analyst recently explained in Issues, new investments are needed in large - scale electricity storage and new public policies are needed to encourage recharging when renewable energy sources are providing the power.

• nuclear power will be substantially cheaper than fossil fuel electricity generation • cheap electricity substitutes for some gas for heating and oil for land transport (as in electric vehicles and low - cost electricity producing energy carriers).

In addition, because electric motors can be 2 — 3 times more efficient than internal combustion engines, PV can result in 200 — 300 times more useable energy for vehicle transport than bioenergy per hectare (although fully realizing this potential will require battery production to become more energy efficient).

An overall decrease in electricity costs and ultimately electricity is cheap enough that it partly displaces gas for heating (both industrial and residential) and partly displaces oil for transport (e.g. electric vehicles and energy carriers produced using low cost electricity and or high temperature reactors).

If we start using electric cars in large numbers (and I hope we do soon), then solar towers and various other forms of large scale clean electricity generation may supply a substantial fraction of our transport energy, especially for short local runs less than 100 klms a day.

Then I though, hey, I can get an electric vehicle, use it as a battery backup for the house as well as transport.

The problem for large automakers is that they will crush their own finances and have to write off massive investments if they rapidly shift to electric transport, but they are exposing themselves to great threat if they are too slow electrifying their offerings.

Supplier Webasto has announced its strategy for the next few years and electric transport solutions, namely batteries and charging equipment are to play a prominent role.

A set of 12 sectors was agreed on as a common reporting format for all air pollutants: air transportation; international shipping; other transportation (surface transport); electric power plants, energy conversion, extraction and distribution; solvents; waste (landfill, waste water, non-energy incineration); industry (combustion and process emissions); domestic (residential and commercial buildings); agricultural waste burning on fields; agriculture (agricultural soil emissions, other agriculture); savannah burning; and forest burning.

In addition, the city will provide 2,000 electric vehicles and charging stations for the transport sector.

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It's a multi-prong approach to reach this goal, which would include Passive House construction along with Decent House / site generation and other efforts contributing to demand destruction, coupled with a shift in transport to non petroleum based fuels (electric vehicles and etc.) Since our focus here is on housing, I really would like to see Decent House scale up for the huge existing housing stock inventory yet to be touched by this approach, along with Passive House lessons applied to new construction, where the basic concept is to shift the burden of maintaining a comfortable, healthy living space toward the envelope, while reducing the intensity of HVAC required.

Show me a Green that actually gives up cars, washing machines, electric lights, computers, heated houses, and commercial goods made far away and transported at enormous expense in energy to the stores where they purchased them and I'll show you a Green that has no voice because they have successfully marginalized themselves to where they can not even publicly argue for their public stance.

Should the focus be on improving existing modes of transport (for example, with electric cars), or in switching modes (public transport instead of private) or in reducing the need for travel (with urban design, telepresence and so on).

France: Troisième Place, Pas Mal France came in third, only receiving a green rating for Kyoto Protocol progress; WWF handed out red rating for its emissions trend since 1990, its stagnating use of renewable energy, its lack of leadership in climate change negotiations, its electric / nuclear policy, and its transport policy.