In 1989 Dow's materials-engineering center beat out General Electric for the chance to build, using plastics, a riding lawn mower for John Deere.
The third rail, of course, is a metaphor for any issue so controversial that it is untouchable, like the electric rail often found in the center of a railroad track.
The electric power steering is a little unresponsive on center usually, but gets more reactive and tactile the harder you drive the car.
The walls were painted green, and in the center of the room, where an electric chair used to be, was a sheeted gurney.
The health center was only a few hundred yards from electric transmission lines, but nobody had ever bothered to connect it.
Perhaps coal handlers employed on diesel-electric locomotives, mafia goons controlling space at the municipal convention center or Broadway musicians paid even if the show doesn't need them.
Another example: A123 Systems, a Massachusetts company that produces lithium-ion batteries, has created a large design and manufacturing center in Michigan to be near their automotive customers for electric and hybrid vehicles.
The C-Max Energi has an EV mode button on the center stack that lets the driver choose between three modes: electric-only driving, normal hybrid mode (which blends electric and gasoline engine power as appropriate) or EV-later mode, which reserves the battery pack power for later use.
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These components are combined with electrical parts that are also "made by Volkswagen, " such as the lithium-ion battery in the center tunnel and the 54-hp front and 114-hp rear electric motors.
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General Electric, who will be creating over 600 direct and indirect jobs at their Technology Center in New Orleans, made the decision to open its new division in Louisiana after FastStart created unique enterprise software talent recruitment initiatives for the Fortune 500 company.
Meanwhile engineers at BYD's research and development center in Shanghai are working on rechargeable batteries that can be used in future generations of electric vehicles and electric hybrids.
General Electric's health IT unit is so impressed with Intermountain's algorithms that it is opening a center in Utah to adapt them for mass use.
When you get to the crest of the bridge over the Thames River, you can see the center of global innovation in undersea warfare a mile down-river to your right, the Electric Boat division of General Dynamics.
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