O. of my former employer, General Electric recently gave a very candid speech on this subject.
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Not to be outdone, UK-based Stealth Electric Bikes recently released the Bomber, a burly electric bike that would fit in well with the Dark Knight's fleet of stealthy vehicles.
The Edison Electric Institute recently released a report entitled Disruptive Challenges: Financial Implications and Strategic Responses to a Changing Retail Electric Business.
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But like many electric companies recently, PPL has raised and lowered its actual quarterly payout at times.
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In a statement, OKI Europe said its parent company OKI Electric had recently announced "essential" restructuring of its global printer division to remain competitive and profitable.
Among them: General Electric unit NBC recently ordered up a Robin Hood drama called The Philanthropist, ABC nabbed the Heroes-esque series Section 8, and News Corp. network FOX got its hand on an office drama titled Queen Bee.
The big investment play on electric-powered vehicles, Tesla Motors (TSLA), the leading developer and maker of battery electric vehicles, recently revised downward its third-quarter delivery from 500 vehicles to 200-225, and its full year target from 5, 000 to 2, 700-3, 250 due to production issues, including delays in delivery due in part to flooding at one of its component suppliers.
Some interesting electric car developments went down in England recently -- Liberty Electric Cars announced plans to convert "tens of thousands" cars and SUVs to electric operation, starting with the Range Rover, and NICE previewed a scissor-door concept it'll be showing at the London Auto Show.
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Its high technology is weak: Mitsubishi Electric, for example, recently announced that it intended to close much of its semiconductor business.
The so-called Kerry-Lieberman-Graham energy bill, which would restrict carbon emissions for the electric power industry, has recently been raised from the dead.
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As seen in the recently inked General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) deal and current Verizon (nyse: VZ - news - people ) negotiations, wages and health care will play a significant role in the talks.
Bennett, a veteran of both Intuit (INTU) and General Electric (GE), has recently articulated a new strategic vision and plans to streamline the organization.
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Nonetheless, the spark seems to have gone out of the electric car market in the US recently and it has been a troubling time for some of the green technology start-up companies involved in the sector.
The good news is that the big names in nuclear energy -- like Areva, Hitachi, General Electric and Toshiba -- have recently been joined by a bevy of high-tech start-ups seeking to develop advanced nuclear-reactor designs for both fission and fusion energy production.
Jack Welch, the recently retired chairman of General Electric, had to postpone his book tour.
The largest utility, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), recently joined forces with Microsoft and Softbank, a Japanese software and media conglomerate, to offer unmetered Internet access.
At a time when the world generally is cutting budgets, General Electric Co. ( GE) recently announced that sales of its huge-ticket items like jet engines, gas turbines, energy infrastructure and locomotives are really doing very well.
Founded in 2009 as a distributor of solar energy equipment, Kiwi was called PVPower before it changed its name just recently to focus on selling solar electric systems to consumers rather than installers.
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Thanks to a series of severe storms that clobbered electric-power grids in New York and Connecticut recently, the fuel-cell industry appears poised for a modest to massive growth spurt.
Forecasts made as recently as three months ago predicted that electric cars would become the leading application for lithium ion batteries by 2015, surpassing laptop PCs and other handheld devices.
In fact, Chinese companies like Changhong Electric are fast becoming leaders in the Smart TV field, recently announcing a partnership with San Francisco startup Flingo (a developer of Social TV apps) to better enable second screen engagement for Asian consumers.
Moreover, the company recently announced that it plans to sell 500, 000 electric cars annually by 2017.
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Yet, the Department of Energy recently released a report predicting that 1.2 million electric vehicles will be built by 2015.
No need to idle an entire production line as General Motors recently did when expected sales of its plug-in electric hybrid Chevrolet Volt failed to materialize.
However, Denmark recently downgraded by 50% its initial 2020 goal for electric cars, from 400, 000 to 200, 000, so this resource may not prove to be as significant as initially expected.
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It recently did precisely that in facilitating the sale of 150 General Electric locomotives to Pakistan.
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Among them: General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) unit NBC recently ordered up a Robin Hood drama called The Philanthropist, ABC nabbed the Heroes-esque series Section 8, and News Corp. (nyse: NWS - news - people ) network FOX got its hand on an office drama titled Queen Bee.
The relative high purchase price of electric cars comes from the cost of the lithium-ion batteries, which a Ford executive recently revealed can make up one-third of a car's price.
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Bruce and his family recently sat in the dark for a few days because he had to choose between paying his electric bill and buying groceries.
According to a recently de-classified report by the U.S. Navy about the vulnerability of the electric power grid, commercial construction expenditures have lagged behind asset depreciation for nearly two decades.
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