This is just a huge ripoff of tax subsidies, tax credits, and tax deductions in addition to consumer electric rate subsidies.
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Think of the plug-in hybrid as the biggest consumer electric appliance ever.
Gov. Gray Davis and consumer advocates blamed electric deregulation and price gouging by the utilities, for the situation.
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Spectacular advances in the production of consumer durables, electric power, new appliances, suburban housing, and city skyscrapers highlighted the decade.
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In addition, the Blink Network will prove access to a web-portal containing a wealth of information about consumer's electric vehicles, and charging habits.
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In addition, a tax on gasoline helps increase consumer demand for electric cars and seems likely to help the needed technological breakthroughs come even faster.
Consumer appliances such as electric shavers and coffee makers did better, with sales up 9 percent.
It's much the same story for a host of leading companies in the 1000, from third-ranked Toyota Motor to consumer electronics giant Matsushita Electric (No. 9) and utility Chubu Electric (No. 41).
If you must be stocks, he says, buy electric utilities and consumer staples.
Then in its annual survey of subscribers, Kermit and JoAnna Moreau of Lumberton, Texas, told Consumer Reports that their General Electric microwave oven turned on by itself while they were home.
The authors draw on earlier research on electric cars and hypothesize that consumer preferences are evolving along with technological change.
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Ohio-based American Electric Power, the largest consumer of coal in the U.S., is trying to build the country's first super-efficient commercial-scale coal gasification plant.
For Toshiba and allies Time Warner, Hollywood studio MCA, France's Thomson Consumer Electronics and Japan's Matsushita Electric, Hitachi and Pioneer, the immediate challenge is to make sure SD becomes the industry standard.
The most vehement of the three is Metcalf, who has long maintained that electric utility accounting constitutes a ripoff of the consumer.
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American Electric Power is the nation's top consumer of coal, and we have factored climate issues into our business decisions for almost a decade.
General Electric (GE) shifted its salaried employees into consumer-driven plans in 2010.
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Without government subsidies, hybrid and electric vehicles are a hard sell for the average American consumer.
The second variable that the consumer cares about, which also is the second classic criticism of electric cars, is charging time.
For instance, in the low-margin consumer-electronics sector, the missing include TCL of China and Funai Electric of Japan.
Although heaters are minimized to conserve battery range, Consumer Reports rated a Volt test car at a paltry average 25 miles of electric-only running before the gasoline engine kicked in under cold Connecticut winter conditions.
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As battery range (i.e. the distance your battery fully charged will get you) becomes more of a consumer focus, increasingly compact power will become tantamount to battery choice for hybrids and electric cars.
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Merrill announced last week it was selling the lion's share of its consumer finance unit, Merrill Lynch Capital, to GE Capital, the financial unit of General Electric.
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Professor Blythe, who's studying consumer reaction to battery-powered vehicles, reckons 5-10% of British cars will be electric within 10 years.
Clearly, General Electric sees more money in powering the demand for infrastructure improvements around the world than it does in consumer spending.
GaN switches convert power at higher frequencies than traditional components and can be easily embedded in virtually any electrical system from consumer electronics products to computer servers, HVAC equipment, industrial motor drives, and inverters for solar panels and electric vehicles.
"Tectonic upheavals in technology have affected consumer behavior, and it's happened so quickly, " says Alan Wurtzel, president of research at General Electric Co.
But with our appetite for these consumer goods continuing to grow, experts believe we are still going to have our work cut out dealing with our electric and electronic waste.
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