Electric cars have historically suffered from extreme lameness, largely because most attempts at building electric cars were aimed at the mid-price or low-end car market.
Contrast that with Ford, which is building electric vehicles that are basically battery powered versions of conventionally powered cars.
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They are betting on their experience in designing and building electric motors for ship propulsion systems for the US Navy.
This points out the radically different approach Tesla is taking versus Nissan with the Leaf and really everyone else building electric vehicles right now.
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By designing and building electric motors in-house, GM says it will be able to lower costs and improve performance, quality and reliability by controlling the design, purchasing and manufacturing processes.
Unlike the U.S., Europe, China or Japan, all of which have multiple automakers building electric cars and pushing for the infrastructure that supports them, India has just one: Mahindra Reva.
Google has spent considerable effort building an electric car fleet at its Silicon Valley headquarters.
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Relations between the countries have deteriorated over a hydro-electric dam that Tajikistan is building.
It applies it to allocating grants for transportation, for workforce training programs, and for the way we encourage commercial building efficiency and electric vehicle deployment.
"Passive renewable energy" measures, such as using natural ventilation to cool a building and spacing windows to maximize the sun's light, are other ways to slash a building's electric bill.
To offset the energy-gobbling building boom, the electric utility this month asked Sochi's 343, 000 residents to halt daytime use of air conditioners, teapots, irons and washing machines.
These markets allow companies to recover the costs of building power plants that provide electric power during periods of peak demand.
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He described the restructuring as "like finding a broken Stradivarius cello and building a new semi-electric instrument without spoiling the design".
Even as I'm here today, Vice President Biden is in Delaware announcing the reopening of a once-shuttered GM factory that will soon put people back to work building plug-in, electric hybrid vehicles.
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Nevertheless, Nissan is vulnerable in another way if demand for electric vehicles softens, because Nissan is building a dedicated factory in Tennessee to produce a much higher volume of the Nissan Leaf, starting in 2012.
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He has also signed fibre-building alliances with several big local electric utilities, including Boston Edison.
Atlanta EV infrastructure is building as more plug-in electric vehicles become available.
He had a very capable partner named Enos Barton, with whom he formed a company that later became the Western Electric Company and its offshoot Graybar (of Graybar Building fame).
The building was once Chess Records, the seminal electric blues label that paved the way for rock 'n' roll.
But the announcement on January 9th that the government is to encourage the building of nuclear-power stations is more electric: overdue, perhaps, but important and controversial (as well as right).
To ensure the reliability of the electric grid after that date, TXU is planning on building 1500 megawatts of wind generation and is considering building multiple nuclear facilities, though these would not come on line by 2015 at the earliest--too late to resolve the looming power shortage.
We actually have jumpstarted an entire industry here in the United States, building advanced batteries that are going to go into electric vehicles.
The Company also involves in industrial installation, steel structure, the production of concrete, building decoration, landscape construction, railway construction and electric power businesses, among others.
Lightweight technology is one solution of many that we are continuing to develop such as building on our success with direct injection diesels, electric mobility and several others.
The bright yellow dome of the steel containment vessel at Unit 4, Fukushima Daiishi nuclear power plant (FDI) is clearly visible amid the pulverized remains of the building in a new video released by the Tokyo Electric Power Company.
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As a consequence data centers are using an increasingly large amount of power both to run equipment and to keep the operating temperature of that equipment at appropriate levels (this has led to building many newer data centers next to hydro-electric and other inexpensive power sources as well as in colder climates).
Dow is building a new plant in Michigan to manufacture batteries for electric vehicles.
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Welch, whose books glorified their skills and boosted the reputations of Chrysler and General Electric, D'Alessandro penned Brand Warfare: 10 Rules for Building the Killer Brand (McGraw-Hill).
We're on track to create 700, 000 jobs across America building advanced batteries for hybrid cars, and modernizing our electric grid, and doubling our capacity to generate clean energy.
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The new building will reuse rain water to flush the toilets and a solar electric generating system will be installed on the roof.
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