Goldwind, Coda, and the Thermal Power Research Institute are hybrids of Western design and Chinese production, and no nation has yet mastered both the invention and the low-cost manufacturing of clean technology.
Even more fundamentally, the digital economy's infrastructure has advanced basic material science and classes of machine tools that have led directly to the new high-power electronics (enabling hybrids) and to big, cheap flat-panel, thin-film PVs (derived from the massive thin-film machines that make flat-panel-TVs).
Hybrids get their power from a battery pack or an onboard gasoline engine, or both.
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Hybrids use diesel power where there were no overhead electric cables so could be used across the network without having to change locomotives or crews.
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He cites FuelCell Energy's work for the Department of Energy on a technology known as the fuel cell hybrids, or power plants that cut emissions by combining fuel cells with conventional gas turbines.
Supercapacitors have a big internal surface-area that allows a large amount of energy to be delivered rapidly and are used in some electric cars to provide a short burst of power for rapid acceleration and in hybrids to recover energy during braking.
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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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But the 3 Series hybrid is not aimed at people looking to drive primarily on electric power anyway, unlike the new plug-in hybrids soon to be launched by Ford, Honda and Toyota.
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In January GM (nyse: GM - news - people ) contracted to sell the Army a fleet of trucks powered by next-generation power plants like fuel cells and diesel-electric hybrids.
While overall hybrid sales are up substantially over last year, a recent survey by JD Power suggested that the number of people interested in hybrids actually decreased, from 57 percent to 50 percent.
The advantage plug-in hybrids have over regular hybrids, its proponents say, is you can power them by electricity alone.
Even as Ferrari and McLaren forge new territory with high-performance hybrids, plenty of examples of old-school power also will be on display at the Geneva Motor Show.
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Today, Enterprise offers roughly 300 electric cars (including the Nissan Leaf, Chevy Volt and Toyota Plug-in Prius) and about 3, 200 hybrids (which run on both gasoline and electric power) throughout the United States, including California, Hawaii, Seattle, New York and Washington DC.
The benchmark study, by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), found that plug-in hybrids are cleaner than regular cars in each of nine scenarios.
The Green Book, produced by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), says that in evaluating plug-in hybrids, it considers both the emissions from the gas engine and from the power plants that feed the grid.
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If you let hybrids travel in the HOV lanes, they're not running on the battery power.
Google is testing a fleet of plug-in hybrids and software that would turn them into load-balancing tools for utilities flooded with variable power from wind and solar generators.
Until now, battery power has been seen as primarily a way to reduce emissions and improve fuel economy, whether with relatively conventional hybrids, like the Toyota Prius, with plug-ins, such as the new Chevrolet Volt, or with pure battery-electric vehicles, like the Nissan Leaf.
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