Sentences with phrase «of electric infrastructure»

Two companion papers investigate the technical potential and economic impacts of using the existing idle capacity of the electric infrastructure in conjunction with the emerging plug - in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) technology to meet the majority of the daily energy needs of the U.S. LDV fleet.

It's a case of electric infrastructure one - upmanship.

Not exact matches

When the United States invaded Afghanistan, the armed forces needed a great deal of infrastructure support, everything from electric generators to water purifiers to road - repair machinery.

The German government will also invest $ 300 million in charging station infrastructure to foster longer range for the expected influx of electric vehicles to its roads.

Friday's result didn't get us all the way there, but it did commit to a «Canada - wide strategy for zero - emission vehicles» by 2018, along with a promise of more charging infrastructure for electric cars.

He does not mind the headache of finding charging stations, a problem he expects will disappear as China expands its electric vehicle infrastructure.

In 2014, TransCanyon was formed as an independent developer of electric transmission infrastructure with a focus on the Western United States.

And while people like to blame Trump or the federal government for the devastation and slow response, Varela explains that much of the problem stems from Puerto Rico's major infrastructure deficiency and the failings of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority.

On Thursday morning in an early string of tweets, Trump said Puerto Rico's current crisis is of its own making, saying «Electric and all infrastructure was disaster before hurricanes» and implying that the price tag to help Puerto Rico may soon become untenable.

A land transfer agreement between the city of Coldwater and Coldwater Township allowed the city to contribute $ 4.5 m for the infrastructure developments of the project, which included water and sewage main extensions and a new municipal electric overhead distribution line.

A senior administration official said the idea is to create large pockets of opportunity for wind developers so they can reduce costs through economies of scale, and through state investments in workforce training, manufacturing and electric infrastructure.

According to President Buhari, «In 2017 alone, we saw significant commitments and agreements by major global organisations in infrastructure projects such as: the proposed USD 9 billion Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical complex in Lagos; the completed USD 600 million Lafarge Plant in Calabar; the proposed rail stock; the proposed USD 1.3 billion public private partnership with General Electric on Rail Track Development and the proposed ENI / Agip rehabilitation of Port Harcourt Refinery.

The increase in jobs in this area will be targeting towards improving green infrastructure - setting up public recharge points for a future generation of electric cars, for instance.

The tuition plan joins additional policy proposals rolled out by Cuomo this month, including a tax credit program to make childcare more affordable, investments in JFK Airport and charging infrastructure for electric cars and stronger safeguards against wage theft, cyber threats and the financial exploitation of senior citizens.

The gas and electric company cited a $ 2.5 billion infrastructure project as one of the primary reasons for the rate hike.

Bullock said divestiture is «only one of the tools» that the state can use to combat the worst effects of climate change, and called Monday for more investment in solar energy and electric vehicle infrastructure in Albany County.

Superstorm Sandy may have been the worst disaster to hit the LIPA electric grid, but the storm's aftermath brought a wave of changes that included a new system operator, badly needed technology and infrastructure upgrades, and more than $ 1.4 billion in federal funding to repair and prepare for the next big storm.

In an interview, Hawkins said that activists still face many challenges, from fighting the inevitable industry lawsuits to overturn the ban, to challenging the fracking infrastructure of pipelines across the state and gas storage in the salt caverns near Seneca Lake, to campaigning for a «state plan for a rapid transition to 100 percent green energy to fight climate change, lower electric costs and create millions of new jobs,» he said....

During his 2013 State of the State address, Governor Andrew Cuomo laid out his ChargeNY plan to invest $ 50 million over five years in electric vehicle infrastructure to reduce air pollution, lower the cost of government and reduce dependence on imported oil.

The projects that would help the region reach 80 percent cuts are ambitious: an inventory of greenhouse gas emissions in the eight participating counties, more energy efficient power generation through wind farms and solar power, the expansion of inter-city mass transit and a region - wide electric vehicle infrastructure, among many others.

It's part of a larger effort that seeks to encourage more electric vehicles and the infrastructure to support them.

Sure, that doesn't sound that exciting compared to a zero - emission electric car — until you consider that this new fuel doesn't require new car factories, new fueling infrastructure, or the turnover of our existing fleet of vehicles, all of which are expensive, massively polluting ventures.

With the EV revolution in full swing, University of Michigan mechanical engineer Jeffrey Stein says the time is now to integrate the electrical grid with the transportation infrastructure and ensure the country's carbon emissions drop as a result of the introduction of electric cars.

In the medium to long term, however, countrywide electrical - charging infrastructure will need to be built that allows electric cars to deliver all the range and refuelling convenience of petrol vehicles.

«Geomagnetically - induced currents on system infrastructure have the potential to result in widespread tripping of key transmission lines and irreversible physical damage to large transformers,» a 2009 report by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) and the Energy Department says.

This is accomplished by solving technological issues that limit the commercialization of electric vehicles such as price, weight, volume, driving distance, and lack of charging infrastructure.

The latest figures from the Electric Drive Transportation Association, a trade group that advocates electric, electric - hybrid and fuel - cell car technology and infrastructure, reveal a diminished share of the carElectric Drive Transportation Association, a trade group that advocates electric, electric - hybrid and fuel - cell car technology and infrastructure, reveal a diminished share of the carelectric, electric - hybrid and fuel - cell car technology and infrastructure, reveal a diminished share of the carelectric - hybrid and fuel - cell car technology and infrastructure, reveal a diminished share of the car market.

Many communities would be better off investing in electric vehicles that run on batteries instead of hydrogen fuel cells, in part because the hydrogen infrastructure provides few additional energy benefits for the community besides clean transportation.

«Decades of investment shouldn't go to waste just because a site has closed; we can repurpose existing electric and other infrastructure to make sure our data centers are reliably serving our users around the world.»

«We provided data on the amount of energy Los Altos Hills needs throughout the day, as well as financial data on the cost of building new energy infrastructures,» said study coauthor Matthew Pellow, a former GCEP postdoctoral scholar now with the Electric Power Research Institute.

«Telecom, cable, ICT, electric power... there will be a lot of jobs just building out the infrastructure,» from wiring up plugs along the nation's byways to recharge electric cars to beefing up insulation in houses so that every home is as efficient as possible.

According to the paper, the registration fees already adopted by at least eight states reflect concerns about how the growing number of electric vehicles may affect road infrastructure funding.

The glow of electric lights paints a glittering map of a region's infrastructure, showing roughly where the rich and poor live.

The newly available data gives researchers a treasure trove of measurements they can use to better understand how space weather works and how best to protect critical infrastructure, such as the nation's satellites, aircraft, communications networks, navigation systems, and electric power grid.

The innovation could expedite the adoption of electric and hybrid vehicles by eliminating the time needed to stop and re-charge a conventional electric car's battery and dramatically reducing the need for new infrastructure to support re-charging stations.

These include a charging infrastructure for electric vehicles with over 30 charge spots, as well as several direct current quick - charging stations with up to 150 kW of power per vehicle.

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At Tesla, Cal Lankton, its director of global electric vehicle infrastructure, said they have also seen evidence that these «time of use» rates can be an effective way to influence car owner behavior to benefit the grid.

The carmaker realized that if its vision of battery - powered electric vehicles gaining mass appeal in tandem with fuel cell electrics was to come true, it needed to so something about the lack of hydrogen infrastructure.

The external challenges of policy, charging infrastructure and pricing are real, but making more exciting cars will go a long way toward creating a mass market for electric vehicles, said Tesla's O'Connell.

By focusing on these aspects of the hydrogen fueling infrastructure, the effort hopes to accelerate and support the widespread deployment of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles.

By testing batteries during and after discharge and examining the infrastructure required to facilitate use of plug - in electric vehicles, the scientists aim to expand the potential for their widespread use.

After working as a post-doctoral research staff in Tohoku University for 2010 - 2012, Yuki worked as a research scientist for Systems Engineering Laboratory, Toshiba Research and Development Center for October 2012 - December 2014, developing battery - based electric energy storage systems as part of the public infrastructures team.

City of Porterville to Purchase 10 GreenPower All - Electric Transit Buses Dec 7, 2016 Next - Gen Transportation News (Oxford, CT) The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has awarded $ 9.5 million to the City of Porterville to deploy 10 GreenPower EV350 40 - foot, zero - emission, all - electric transit buses on all nine Porterville Transit routes and to install the associated charging infrastructure, including 11 charging sElectric Transit Buses Dec 7, 2016 Next - Gen Transportation News (Oxford, CT) The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has awarded $ 9.5 million to the City of Porterville to deploy 10 GreenPower EV350 40 - foot, zero - emission, all - electric transit buses on all nine Porterville Transit routes and to install the associated charging infrastructure, including 11 charging selectric transit buses on all nine Porterville Transit routes and to install the associated charging infrastructure, including 11 charging stations.

The infrastructure for the Fast Charging option is very limited, with fewer than 40 on the ChargePoint network in the United States, 27 of them in electric - car - friendly California.

Kia says it chose these additional markets because of existing charging station infrastructure and customer interest in the Soul EV, and plans to sell the electric car in even more markets starting in 2016.

The market will continue to trend away from the internal combustion engine, but Mazda's «right solution at the right time» mentality will ensure that its latest generation of petrol engines will be as competitive as possible until the infrastructure required to power an electric car future has matured.

This, then, feels like a good time to examine the current viability of electric cars in this country given the limitations of infrastructure, the range of the vehicles and how long they take to recharge.

The future mentioned by you, where everyone drives an electric vehicle, will involve vast expansion of power generating facilities, total revamp of power transmission infrastructure (which has not been maintained properly for decades as it is) and ramping up battery production, which, I am pretty sure, is not remotely clean tech and requires vast amounts of rare earth materials.

Yes, for the individual owner it maybe does, but that at the cost of the rest of the world, because electric energy still comes mostly from coal / oil / nuclear power generators for one, with correspondent pollution and infrastructure load.