Not exact matches
Baidu — alongside other
companies like Google (googl) and General Motors (gm)-- is also actively encouraging a push for better coordination between autonomous
vehicle manufacturers and the U.S. government, saying that it's necessary to make small changes to existing
infrastructure and ease regulatory obstacles in order to get self - driving cars on the road.
Fixed asset base: This is the long - term base of the
company's operation strategy, represented by all the equipment, machinery,
vehicles, facilities, IT
infrastructure and long - term contracts the firm has invested in to conduct business.
The
company is also making a big bet on hydrogen - powered cars, even though the
infrastructure for these
vehicles does not really exist in the US yet.
David Sherfinski of the Washington Times: Mr. Brady described the idea of using some $ 2.5 trillion
companies now have parked overseas as a
vehicle for a big
infrastructure investment as a «satellite» hovering around tax reform.
Companies and researchers are working on
infrastructure and technologies to help bring the nation's growing stock of natural gas to fuel tanks, including those of long - haul
vehicles
While Supercharger stations are clearly marked as being set up by Tesla for its own cars, CHAdeMO and SAE Combo chargers are generally installed and owned by
infrastructure companies like NRG EVgo or ChargePoint, making it unclear which
vehicles can plug into which stations.
Major auto makers are uniting to urge governments, energy
companies and other related organizations to develop an easily accessible and affordable hydrogen
infrastructure to ensure the successful introduction of fuel - cell
vehicles in the global marketplace by 2015.
Charging
infrastructure company Chargemaster says UK electric
vehicle sales will leap to more...
Also, the utility and oil
companies are and will interfere with progress that hurts their bottom line; economics has a place to be sure, but just old fashioned greed hinders progress... still, there are hard working people who support families and citizens who do can not afford any upgrades or changes, the building of the wind
infrastructure is already past a billion dollars and has not brought the efficiency we need to even talk of transitions, and with the 7 - 10 billion dollars car makers are requesting in addition to 20 - 75 billion for the current production lines to be maintained (and to stop the big three from filing chapter 11) and the regular gas powered
vehicles to continue in the mainstay, it is not likely the government will have the money (or credit?)
-- # 400m ($ 530m) for electric
vehicle charging
infrastructure — # 100m ($ 132m) for a plug - in car grant — # 40m ($ 53m) for charging research & development — Clarifications to the law so drivers will not face taxes if charging at work — 1/3 off rail fares for 4.5 million people aged between 26 - 30 — 1 % increase in
company car tax for diesel
vehicles — An increase in taxes on new cars that do not meet the latest EU6 emissions band
At the Straus Family Creamery, a biodigester has been generating free power for onsite use, as well as charging the farm's electric Toyota RAV4 and Nissan Leaf, along with various smaller
vehicles, since 2004, but the
company has now added a major upgrade to the farm's renewable
infrastructure - an electric semi-truck.
Businesses are also moving forward: Auto
company General Motors announced it will transition to producing only electric
vehicles; 100 of the world's most influential businesses are creating a huge demand for renewable energy; and ten of the world's largest
companies have launched a global campaign to expand corporate electric
vehicle use and charging
infrastructure (a big deal when you consider that about half of the cars on the road belong to
companies).
Raphael Declercq, Vice President of Portfolio Strategy at EDF Renewables, who has been appointed as a board member of the
company, said, «C&I s are increasingly asking for electric
vehicle charging
infrastructure to offer the onsite benefit to employees and customers.
EV100 is a global initiative by The Climate Group bringing together forward - looking
companies committed to accelerating the transition to electric
vehicles (EVs) and the roll - out of EV charging
infrastructure, making electric transport «the new normal» by 2030.
The SAVE trial involved many players, who thus became pioneers in electric mobility: municipalities (Les Mureaux, Mantes la Jolie and Poissy) and
companies (Carrefour, Total, Leclerc, Vinci Park, Intermarché) deployed charging
infrastructure available to the public; 40 participants (
companies, municipalities and consumers) acquired charging stations and electric
vehicles.
«Since the eVolt charging
infrastructure was installed, the number of
company car PHEVs has risen from 177 to 375, and we have seen an increase in the number of fully electric
vehicles,» said Darren Watson, environmental operations advisor for National Grid's Sustainability and Climate Change team.
Shai Agassi's Better Place was at one time considered to be a promising electric car
company, because instead of building a better electric
vehicle, it focused on delivering a cheaper EV, with little to no profits on the car itself but an income model that depended on recurring revenue from charging stations and battery swapping
infrastructure.
General Motors, EPRI and the utility
companies will work on everything from codes and standards to grid capability to provide an
infrastructure to support the Chevy Volt, the Saturn Vue Plug - in Hybrid and other plug - in
vehicles when they come to market.
Right now, the focus seems to be primarily on battery electric
vehicles, which require access to a charging station to «refuel,» but there's another type of electric car that could show some promise down the road a ways, the hydrogen fuel cell car, and although the hydrogen
infrastructure is even less built - out than the EV charging network, one
company thinks they've got a unique approach to the market, in that they don't even want to sell you the car.
Though the
company wouldn't directly respond to Fiorani's statements, it reiterated that it's focused on five main objectives, beyond finishing the FF 91 and the California factory: preparing sales
infrastructure in the U.S., supporting a team in China on the development of a second
vehicle, and supporting the development of a new factory in China.