Sentences with phrase «of electric transport»

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

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From electric cars that can drive themselves to modernized public transport such as the Hyperloop to human - sized drones and hover boards (real ones, not those silly two - wheeled contraptions that catch on fire), we are entering an era of potentially dramatic change on the transportation front.

Walmart (wmt) joins a list of other big companies that have preordered the electric trucks, including J.B. Hunt Transport Services, which said it would buy an unspecified number, and Michigan - based grocery chain Meijer, which has preodered four of the vehicles.

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.

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.

«The reason we are doing Tesla is to try to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport, to have there be more electric cars on the road,» Musk said in September during an interview with the Danish news site Borsen.

Although the emissions scandal has tarnished its reputation and triggered a multitude of lawsuits, VW has maintained sales in part by offering incentives to buyers in the United States and other markets while it repositions its business by investing in electric cars and on - demand transport services.

Some companies have areas so big that workers need fast means of transport, and an electric kick scooter is the best one.

There are also hundreds of companies producing electric scooters, a transport solution which is common in many parts of the world.

Recently Tesla has been making headlines with the reveal of their Tesla Semi — the electric car company's first foray into transport trucks.

Lake Las Vegas Marina, tucked along the water's edge of the village, offers rentals of canopied electric boats and gondolas to transport guests and residents between the Westin Lake Las Vegas Resort and Spa and MonteLago Village.

Electric scooters from UberScoot are the latest brand of personal transport vehicles (PTV's) from the internationally renowned Puzey Motor Corporation aka Puzey Design.

«We are in the early stages of an electric revolution in the UK transport sector, and connectivity is at its heart,» said Transport Minister Jesstransport sector, and connectivity is at its heart,» said Transport Minister JessTransport Minister Jesse Norman.

Electric Transport Limited in London due to lack of tax breaks.

The Minister of Transport, Mr Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, on Wednesday, announced that General Electric, GE, would invest $ 2 billion in the country's rail projects.

Axons can measure several hundred times the diameter of the cell body, and, in addition to rapid transmission of electric impulses, they also transport molecular materials over these distances.

Nowadays though, with the advent of the electric skateboard, skateboards have now become a viable means of transport.

«Large - scale electric mobility could be crucial to halving CO2 emissions of the transport sector by 2050,» lead author Felix Creutzig says.

This would require a large - scale shift to electric mobility and promotion of public transport in cities.

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.

«People travel twice as much on the electric bike, both in terms of kilometres, amount of trips, and as part of the total transportation,» says researcher Aslak Fyhri at the Institute of Transport Economics.

According to Fyhri, the study carried out by the Institute of Transport Economics is the first controlled experimental study of people's actual use of electric bikes.

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.

The three - year Living Lab Bus project comprises the projects of Ajeco (secure multichannel communications), Cinia One (cloud services and interfaces), EEE Innovations (smart transport ICT solutions), Foreca (weather and road weather services), iQ Payments (mobile payment solutions) and Linkker (electric bus), as well as the supporting research projects by VTT, Aalto University, University of Tampere and Tampere University of Technology.

Superconducting materials exhibit an invaluable feature when cooled below a critical temperature — they allow the transport of an electric current without loss.

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 latest molecule is one of the best organic semiconductors yet discovered, in terms of its ability to transport electric charge.

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.

And Clean Air Transport in Sweden recently won a $ 7 million subsidy from the City of Los Angeles to start selling its $ 25,000, 75 - mile - per - hour electric sedan next year.

I have spent most of my life thinking electric transport...

The finding is detailed in a paper in Nature Scientific Reports, in which the team describes how honey produces a nanometer - sized electric double layer at the interface with graphene that can be used to gate the ambipolar transport of graphene.

Even if we all switched to driving Teslas tomorrow, liquid fuels would still be necessary to power our planes, ships, and trucks — modes of transport that aren't going electric any time soon.

The mine is a factory with electric and diesel - run power plants, cutting machinery, and conveyor belts to transport the newly freed chunks of fuel.

Realizing such a major emissions cut would require further efficiency improvements in fuel consumption and, especially, the promotion of public transport in cities, alongside a large - scale shift to electric cars.

Wakandan tech seamlessly combines spirituality and science: traditional African beads act as all - powerful communication devices; shepherds» capes emit electric force fields; and the high - end, neon - white lab of T'Challa's genius sister Shuri (Letitia Wright) exists in the same universe as a mystical, purple - lit underground cave where Wakandan women tend to irradiated plants that transport Black Panther to the ancestral plane.

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).

Beijing's Electric Buses to Number 10,000 By 2020 Aug 2, 2017 Xinhua News Agency (Beijing, China) The number of electric buses in Beijing will increase from the current 1,000 to 10,000 by 2020 in an effort to improve the environment, said Beijing Public Transport Group on WeElectric Buses to Number 10,000 By 2020 Aug 2, 2017 Xinhua News Agency (Beijing, China) The number of electric buses in Beijing will increase from the current 1,000 to 10,000 by 2020 in an effort to improve the environment, said Beijing Public Transport Group on Weelectric buses in Beijing will increase from the current 1,000 to 10,000 by 2020 in an effort to improve the environment, said Beijing Public Transport Group on Wednesday.

More Fully Electric Buses to Run in London to Clean Up Air Feb 15, 2017 EveningStandard (London, UK) Transport for London today announced two more bus routes will run exclusively electric buses as part of its plans to tackle the capital's toxic air poElectric Buses to Run in London to Clean Up Air Feb 15, 2017 EveningStandard (London, UK) Transport for London today announced two more bus routes will run exclusively electric buses as part of its plans to tackle the capital's toxic air poelectric buses as part of its plans to tackle the capital's toxic air pollution.

Until rapid - cycle charging networks blossom across the country, the Volt is the only electric vehicle that could function as my sole means of transport.

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.

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The F150 will be used primarily to transport drivers ahead of the Ford Focus Electric to ensure that all drivers are properly rested before their turn to drive.

The primary mode of transport is the all - electric E-mode, making the Tiguan GTE Active Concept a zero emissions vehicle while the gas engine isn't operating.

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.

Zipp combines a range of forms - from aluminium paintings to electric candles, oversized conical ear tubes to photographs of life - sized dolls - to transport us into his visionary world.

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.

It reduce the emissions from transport by a factor of ten or more compared with electric cars on renewable energy and a factor of at least forty compared with modern cars traditional and hybrid ICE cars.

• Solar power will keep getting cheaper • Batteries will continue to become more commonplace • Electric vehicles will soon become a mainstream transport option • This confluence of technologies will begin to disrupt the economics of our existing energy system