Sentences with phrase «many hybrid vehicles»

Nowhere is the climate fight more important than in China, the world's largest spewer of greenhouse gases, which is in the midst of an unprecedented promotion of electric cars: Last year, sales of electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles in China rose 50 % to 507,000, more than three times the U.S. figure.

Qualification as a Green Giant: The first mass - produced hybrid vehicle, it topped the 2013 Greenest list, an automotive ranking by the American Council for an Energy - Efficient Economy.

The new additions include three plug - in hybrid vehicles, which come on top of eight battery - powered cars and two fuel - cell vehicles.

Then, once fuel prices stabilize it's «Oh, I guess I don't really need that hybrid vehicle.»»

According to Henderson, this points towards «a new type of vehicle, a hybrid vehicle that can drive conventionally, or can hover... [with] all the freedom of a car and all the efficiency of a train.»

Tesla isn't the only popular electric or hybrid vehicle in the northern European country.

Musk was so infatuated with the hybrid vehicle - submarine 007 used in The Spy Who Loved Me, he bought the real one at an auction in 2013 for $ 866,000.

With the hybrid vehicles of today, Zhou notes, there are lots of trade - offs, in several ways.

With hybrid vehicles, solar panels and rooftop gardens becoming more than novelties, the green revolution is going strong, and Green Spaces is at its forefront.

Manufacturers of fully electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles will be the first to benefit, starting this year, followed by makers of commercial vehicles in 2020 and the wider car market by 2022.

The announcement follows Volvo's announcement on Wednesday that it planned to cease making gas - powered cars and trucks and would instead only make electronic and hybrid vehicles starting in 2019.

Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble introduced an incentive of 4,000 euros or $ 4,518 for electric car buyers, and 3,000 euros for those purchasing a plug - in hybrid vehicle, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

Although lead - acid batteries will continue to account for more than 62 percent of secondary battery demand in 2015, sales of lithiumbased rechargeable batteries, which are widely used in both portable devices and hybrid vehicles, will record the strongest increases.

Over all, some 80,000 electric and hybrid vehicles were sold in the country last year, according to Yale Zhang, the managing director of Automotive Foresight, a consulting firm in Shanghai.

BYD is part owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) and is often dubbed China's Tesla (TSLA) since it specializes in electric and plug - in petrol - electric hybrid vehicles.

Hybrid vehicles have experienced especially rapid growth and now represent more than 70 % of these jobs.

Rare earth minerals, the 17 elements used in high - tech products such as cell phones and hybrid vehicles, represent another potential source of growth for Canadians over time.

The country will scrap the limits on firms making fully electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles in 2018, commercial vehicle firms in 2020 and lift restrictions on the wider passenger vehicle market by 2022, China state planner said in a statement.

Sid Rajeev, Vice President, Head of Research at Fundamental Research Corp., notes, «The Commodities Research Unit («CRU») Group estimates electric car and plug - in hybrid vehicle sales could reach approximately 14.2 million by 2025, up from 0.77 million last year, reflecting a compound average growth rate of 38 per cent per year from 2016 to 2025.»

As it turned out, GM was only one of many automobile manufacturers readying electric or hybrid vehicles to compete directly with Tesla.

Already Toyota and Honda have hybrid vehicles on the lot that can get 50, 60, 70 miles to the gallon.

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«Through the Business for Social Responsibility Future of Fuels program, Coca - Cola and PepsiCo are researching the carbon intensity of their vehicle fuels, the ways that they can reduce reliance on high - carbon fuels, and opportunities for increasing the number of plug - in and hybrid vehicles in their fleets,» the two wrote.

I had never driven a hybrid vehicle before, so I didn't know quite what to expect.

You might think that hybrid vehicles are out of your grasp because of their notoriously high prices, but Saturn has a solution for this.

So we saw the Greater New York Taxi Association, not generally known for its good works (Gene Freidman's bio on the GNYTA website lists the «Israeli Defense Force» as one of his favorite charities), suing the City over ADA requirements, over its failure to allow for hybrid vehicles as stipulated by the City Council, etc etc..

The amended regulation will now go before the EU Council for approval, but Guide Dogs wants further action to ensure drivers don't have the option to switch off artificial noise systems in electric and hybrid vehicles.

Car manufacturers will now have to fit an artificial noise to all quiet electric and hybrid vehicles, making British roads safer for blind and partially sighted people and other vulnerable road users.

California has a Zero Emission Vehicle program in place that pushes automakers to sell more electric cars and hybrid vehicles, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Milwaukee County's vehicle fleet is becoming more fuel - efficient, thanks to an infusion of Ford Fusion Hybrid vehicles unveiled Monday at Milwaukee County's Fleet Maintenance facility.

«Because platinum is a rare metal, a lot of the expense that goes into manufacturing hybrid vehicles is coming from the platinum needed to catalyze fuel cells,» said Paul Thibado, a professor of physics at the University of Arkansas.

Two tech companies grapple with this challenge as they develop an autonomous hybrid vehicle that can feed itself

China has set an ambitious target of putting 5 million electric or plug - in hybrid vehicles on the country's roads by 2020, part of Beijing's efforts to fight pollution and reduce reliance on oil imports.

Analysts say the 95 g / km 2020 goal as an average across the EU fleet is achievable using conventional combustion engines, but industry opinions are divided over whether pushing below that level could be done with existing engines or require a major increase in electric and hybrid vehicles.

BMW's first plug - in hybrid vehicle in the U.S. has a slick ad campaign featuring the voice of sci - fi icon Arthur C. Clarke — and the six - digit price tag is out of this world.

For example, the cheaper, more powerful ultracapacitors under development by FastCAP Systems, another ARPA — E awardee, are intended to «finally make hybrid vehicles cost - effective,» says Riccardo Signorelli, founder and president of the fledgling company.

Toyota, currently the world's largest producer of hybrid vehicles by far thanks to the success of its Prius, announced that it expects to have a commercially viable plug - in hybrid available to consumers as early as 2010 and is now testing prototype versions of plug - in hybrids at two California universities.

This unusual move to offer both cars probably indicates the mounting competition the company's management now perceives in the maturing hybrid vehicle market.

Over the years, Easley produced code that went on to be used in renewable energy research, including batteries for early hybrid vehicles, as well as for the high - thrust liquid oxygen / liquid hydrogen Centaur rocket used to get space capsules into orbit.

«Engines of change: Scientists recover rare earths from electric and hybrid vehicle motors.»

Apart from approximately 50,000 purely electric cars, roughly 40,000 plug - in hybrid vehicles are presently being operated on German roads.

In addition to offering vehicles powered by a number of alternatives (fuel, battery or both), car companies are going to win customers in the future based on the networked services they offer drivers and passengers and how well these services are delivered, says Nancy Gioia, Ford Motor Co.'s director of Sustainable Mobility Technologies and Hybrid Vehicle Programs.

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.

This is the result of a comparison of battery and plug - in hybrid vehicles in Germany and the US by scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Fraunhofer ISI (Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research), which is now reported in Nature Scientific Reports.

Ultimately, hybrid vehicles and electric cars — whether powered by batteries or fuel cells — will deliver even more environmental rewards.

Data evaluation revealed that plug - in hybrid vehicles with a real electric range of about 60 km drive the same number of kilometers electrically as battery electric vehicles, namely, up to 15,000 km per year.

Patrick Plötz, Fraunhofer ISI, emphasizes: «Plug - in hybrid vehicles represent a good addition to battery electric cars in order to meet the goal of reducing greenhouse gases.

The results of the research project LEO (Low Emission Optimized tires and road surfaces for electric and hybrid vehicles) show that such a combination could make a contribution.

At Dartmouth College's fourth annual Formula Hybrid International Competition last week, graduate and undergraduate electrical, mechanical and computer engineering students showed off high - performance plug - in hybrid vehicles they had designed and built.

Hybrid vehicles, which do not plug in but also use both gas and electric engines, are bringing the technology mainstream.