Google Earth for siting large-scale electric power plants in the United States.
When the Rural Electrification Act was passed in 1936, only about 10 percent of rural America had access to utility scale electric power.
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In support of the tour, an electric vehicle readiness toolkit is available on ecomagination.com to help municipalities, customers, and individuals prepare for wide-scale electric vehicle deployment.
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The Chinese company will make electric buses and large-scale batteries in Lancaster, California, located in Los Angeles County, BYD said in a press release on Friday.
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Now, rural regeneration agency Cadwyn Clwyd has launched a project to revive small-scale hydro-electric power production in rural Denbighshire, launching feasibility studies for using water power on the Dee at Llangollen, and on the Alyn at Llandegla and Loggerheads.
Now he's working with VIA Motors, which today introduced a line of electric vehicles of a rather different scale.
The EV1 is a full scale, 100% electric-powered race car built to resemble a modern Class 1 unlimited open-wheel machine.
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Volvo Car Corporation starts small-scale production of the Volvo C30 Electric this year, and next year the company will start selling the Volvo V60 Plug-in Hybrid.
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This is currently being done with large-scale investment into plug-in electric vehicles, and "clearly, we can use this technology to go across to fuel cell vehicles", he explains.
Despite the electric buses project in Italy being a success on a small scale, the company has found it tricky to expand the operation.
Not only has the scope of electric equipment present in buildings expanded in recent years, the scale of energy consumed by plug loads has also grown.
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While there are industries where it makes sense to allow duopolies or even monopolies to obtain economies of scale and network effects computer operating systems and electric utilities might be two examples the tradeoff usually is that they must accept closer government regulation to prevent price-gouging and other abuses.
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But experts say a successful, large-scale attack on U.S. computer systems could hobble electric-power grids, transportation networks and industrial-supply chains.
To the extent that more electric generation is required, no problem: Just lay the small-scale modules next to each other, making the financial outlays more manageable.
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At CEATEC JAPAN 2009, Mitsubishi Electric unveiled the world's first prototype model of a large-scale OLED display with a 155-inch screen, developed through utilizing the company's large-scale display technology accumulated from the development of Diamond Vision screens installed at numerous sports stadiums and other public facilities.
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While both the London Plan and PlanNYC represent compelling efforts to re-invent the aging electric infrastructure in London and New York City, they ultimately seem inadequate given the scale of the challenge the cities face in this regard.
As they sat in their cushy Avery Fisher Hall seats listening to ABC brass carry on with its digital opportunities and its self-adulating remarks, they weren't wrong to think the impossible was happening: that ABC would go the way of General Electric 's NBC, which presented its fall slate glitz-free on Monday, and scale back on the pageantry.
Electric car makers have struggled with financing and profitability given the costs of developing new technology and difficulty achieving economies of scale.
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