Sentences with phrase «increased use of electric vehicles»

As battery technology continues advancing with increased use of electric vehicles, overall costs of BEVs and their batteries are projected to decrease over time.

To help meet that goal, California is implementing numerous measures, including standards for renewable energy, a policy to scale up the use of clean fuels, requirements and incentives to increase the use of electric vehicles, and a flexible market - based cap on carbon emissions that creates economic incentives for major carbon polluters to cut their emissions.

Not exact matches

The move is designed to increase the use of zero - emissions vehicles, or ZEVs: plug - in electrics, hybrid plug - ins and hydrogen fuel cell cars.

Still missing from consideration are the cost differences between electric vehicles and those with internal combustion engines, as well as other possible environmental effects of biofuel technology such as increased air pollution and water use.

This novel, space - saving design allows the use of bigger batteries, which can increase the range of electric vehicles by an additional 15 to 20 per cent.

The solar roof would then be used to increase the range of electric vehicles.

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The incremental electric power to drive electric vehicles is, of course, inescapably attached to incremental increase in use of coal in the power plant heat engines.

Aside from its investment in CCS, the country is also working on increasing its renewable energy sources — it's already the world's largest producer of solar energy — as well as using more electric vehicles in a number of its cities.

If the U.S. were instead to use that natural gas to generate electricity as part of a portfolio with renewable sources of electricity, the analysis shows that «if the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per day.

The expected introduction of plug - in hybrid electric vehicles could cut U.S. gasoline use, but could increase deadly air pollution in some areas, two reports say.That's because a plug - in's lower tailpipe emissions may be offset by smokestack emissions from the utility generating plants supplying electricity to recharge the big batteries that allow plug - ins to run up -LSB-...]

But my point is, all the hybrid and electric vehicle technologies in the world will hardly make a dent if car ownership and use continue to increase, if oil (or coal, in the case of electric cars) continues to be burnt, and if roads and highways continue to be built out with reckless abandon.

The key now is to shift more road freight to electrified rail, increase the use of light rail and metro subways within cities, and accelerate the replacement of conventional cars with plug - in hybrids and all - electric vehicles — and to run them all largely on electricity generated from renewable sources.

The expected introduction of plug - in hybrid electric vehicles could cut U.S. gasoline use, but could increase deadly air pollution in some areas, two reports say.That's because a plug - in's lower tailpipe emissions may be offset by smokestack emissions from the utility generating plants supplying electricity to recharge the big batteries that allow plug - ins to run up to 40 miles without kicking on their gasoline engines.

«Combinations of increased renewable energy resources, energy efficiency, expansion of the use of electric vehicles, energy storage and other technologies and strategies will be needed to make the desired level of carbon reductions.»

There's upgrading of the grid to offer new connections; making the grid «smarter» and using demand response; there's increasing the flexibility and efficiency of non-renewable generation to work alongside variable renewables, and storage is still much discussed, particularly in relation to fleets of electric vehicles (storage won't be covered here other than in the context of pumped storage).

Representatives from Quebec, Ile de France, North Rhine Westphalia and The Basque Region all outlined separate regional approaches to increasing electric vehicle use in their region, illustrating an exciting number and variety of pilot projects currently underway at a range of levels of government.

APX Labs, one of Google's Glass at Work partners, has confirmed on its site that it has signed renowned maker of electric vehicles Tesla Motors as a client, and there is speculation that the company is using the latest unannounced Glass hardware to increase productivity at its Fremont factory...