Sentences with phrase «than engineering electric»

What if, rather than engineering electric vehicles to be the best possible compromise for your average driver, we instead created vehicles that could learn and optimize their performance according to the drivers» specific commute, and even driving style.

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In terms of engineering, it would be simpler to design than existing gasoline - electric hybrids, since both fuels could be burned in the same engine.

Tesla Motors was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers who set out to build an electric car that would be more powerful than a gas - powered automobile.

General Electric engineer James Wright experimented until he came up with a combination of boric acid and silicone oil that resulted in a goo 25 percent bouncier than real rubber.

Electric pressure cookers tend to be more expensive than slow cookers, since there's a bit more technology and engineering involved.

The Army Corps of Engineers is ending its work to rebuild Puerto Rico's electric grid despite fears the island's government won't be able to restore power on its own to more than 16,000 people who remain blacked out eight months after Hurricane Maria.

It began more than a decade ago, as engineers and hobbyists started getting increasingly enthralled with a jury - rigged electric technology that purportedly enhanced brain function.

But EV engineers persisted — to the point that today more than a baker's dozen full - electric rides are available for sale in the U.S.. They're good, too.

So here we are, watching how well cyclists» latest doping and latest hidden electric motors in the frame work is more interesting than watching high - level engineering and to - the - limit driving.

What the driver really notices is a front suspension that better controls body roll, electric - assist steering that works pretty well even though the motor is mounted on the steering column instead of the rack, and an independent rear suspension that the Prius chief engineer successfully defended against the corporate bean counters when they complained it was heavier and more expensive than the former torsion - beam setup.

With development of the Porsche Mission E well under way, (the first prototypes are set to start testing this summer) the Weissach engineers EV focus is in developing the fully electric sub-Panamera four - door saloon rather than hybridisation of its sports car range.

Removing the XL1's battery pack and electric motor would cut 230 pounds from its 1753 - pound curb weight, but to save money engineers would add some of the weight back by using aluminum instead of magnesium wheels, steel brakes in place of carbon fiber, and glass rather than polycarbonate side windows.

To reduce fuel consumption the engineers have added a «Twin Motor Unit,» two electric motors that deliver more than enough torque directly to the rear wheels.

Ford engineers have had to work within the engineering confines of the existing Focus though, but it seems strange that the new Focus Electric has a larger battery capacity than the Ioniq for example, yet doesn't go as far on a single charge.

«Eco Electric» fender badging replaces the «Soul» fender garnish found on the gasoline - powered car, and the Soul EV gets its own set of distinctive 16 - inch alloy wheels wrapped with specially engineered Super Low Rolling Resistance (SLRR) tires that offer 10 percent less resistance than standard low rolling resistance tires, helping to improve range.

For further driving - quality engineering, Nissan opts for a hydraulic - electric hybrid power - steering system, rather than the pure electric power - steering systems becoming so common.

The Soul EV has been engineered to provide stable handling characteristics and a comfortable ride in urban environments, and with a stiffer bodyshell than the standard Soul, Kia engineers have been able to improve ride comfort of the electric model.

Before working for The Motley Fool, David spent more than a decade as an engineer, designing and developing gas turbines at both Rolls - Royce and General Electric.

«[A] n electric car running on power generated by dirty coal or gas actually creates more emissions than a car that burns petrol,» Dr. Dénes Csala, an engineer at Lancaster University, wrote in The Conversation.

Dedicated to developing groundbreaking technology within the continually evolving electric motorcycle industry, Zero employs more than 75 engineers, designers, manufacturing personnel and corporate representatives within the United States alone.

«Wind power's ecological footprint is so small — a million times smaller than ethanol's — that if all the cars driven in the United States were battery - electric, they could be fueled by wind turbines whose total land footprint, not counting spacing in between, takes up less than 1.2 square miles, Stanford University environmental engineering professor Mark Jacobson found.»

«With electric vehicles, such as the Volt, aerodynamics play a more important role in efficiency than conventional vehicles,» said Nina Tortosa, aerodynamics engineer.

Tesla was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers in Silicon Valley who wanted to prove that electric cars could be better than gasoline - powered cars.

But as the driver Robin Shute — a Faraday engineer and race car driver who drove the FF 91 at Pikes Peak — whipped around corners and punched the throttle, it was easy to make sense of the car's idea: peel back the endless layers of mobility - speak Faraday's so keen to offer, and you'll find an electric car that's quick and downright fun to drive, with more than enough space to produce what'll hopefully be a smart, ambitious interior.

And there is something for everyone, with more than 200 different types of apprenticeships, lasting from one to four years — from nursing and graphic design, to horticulture and electric vehicle engineering.

I'm a Electrical Engineer who has more than 16 years experience in electric circuit design, system design, embedded hardware and software.

SUMMARY Process control system Engineer with Schneider Electric, United States working in multinational companies and engaging with international projects with more than 13 years of experience in process and industrial automation engineering.

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General Electric (Stamford, CT) 2007 — 2008 Corporate Consultant — Infrastructure Systems & Network • Designed, developed, and engineered GE Treasury system's development, QA, Production, and DR environment • Hardware: Sun Fire V220, V480, V880, V1290, V6140, V6800, V6920; Sun Enterprise T2000, T5120 (Solaris 10: LDOMS, ZFS, RAID, Zoans, Containers), E10K, E15K, E25, M4000, M8000, M9000; HP ProLiant with Linux 5.0 (EMC and 3 PAR SAN) • Built servers from racking, cabling (Ethernet / fiber), connecting to network, setting serial connection to Avocent ports, and setting up server to the network through DNS • Performed massive installation of Solaris servers using both Jumpstart and Blade Logic and Red Hat using both PXE boot and BladeLogic servers to global distributed network of more than 6000 servers • Installed and configured Solaris 10 OS, recommended patches, hardening software, LDOMS, ZFS, and Container on Sun server • Installed and configured Emulex LPFC, EMC Power path, Navisphere, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Volume Replicator, and Veritas Net Backup in heterogeneous environment • Partitioned and mirrored disks using Solaris LVM, disk suites, Veritas VxVM, mirrored root file system and set up alternate boot device and dump device • Installed application software for ITG, IDM, and Tibco etc. • Created and adjusted Oracle projects on oracle 9i and 10g • Configured operating systems, LDOMS, ZFS, RAID, network Multi Pathing, Cisco Switch 6309, Brocade Switch, EMC DS41000 fiber switch, EMC, 3 PAR and HITACHI SAN, DNS, NIS, NIS plus, LDAP • Created LUNs for EMC, 3 PAR, HITACHI SAN and set up RAIDS • Created zoning of Cisco 6309 switch • Provided connectivity of Ethernet ports and fiber channel by patching Ethernet ports from server panel to switch, and by patching fiber from server to Brocade switch then to EMC DS41000 switch through Cisco switch6300, 6309, Big IP • Performed alternate boot testing, crush dump testing and cluster testing • Vendor liaison for Cisco, HP, IBM, EMC, Symantec, Oracle Sun, and Red hat Linux resolving hardware and software issues • Scheduled changes and upgrades communicating with business owners and support team • Architected Disaster Recovery System conducted testing and resetting the systems as needed • Performed zoning and provisioning configured EMC / Power path LUNs on UNIX servers upon client's request • Resolved issues with NIS, NIS +, DNS, VxVM and VCS among other SA tasks • Created network topology of the internet and intranet security environment using Visio 7.5