The electric power grid depends on metering perhaps more than any other single factor.
They say the electric barrier in the shipping canal is keeping the carp at bay.
Utilities also are adding more sensors to the electric grid to spot and report problems.
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Plus, Ford will be rolling out the electric car in limited numbers and selected cities.
Nissan's announcement of a new era for emission-free motoring continues to drive the electric revolution forward.
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Backup generators only run when the electric grid goes down or for scheduled maintenance.
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The electric car has been an elusive dream of environmentalists and automakers for decades.
And yet, the electric and natural gas industry operate in a similar fashion all the time.
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Donal put fifty cents in a slot and watched the electric candles come on.
The electric-assist steering is tight and responsive with quite good feedback through the small-diameter steering wheel.
In the USA, the vehicle is being introduced onto the market exclusively as the electric variant.
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One is the electric car, the other is the fuel cell, or the hydrogen car.
The typical rural clinic in Rwanda is a lot farther than Mayange's from the electric grid.
For that reason the electric grid is a model of a neutral, innovation-driving network.
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And, of course, the hybrid will be there with the electric battery and so on.
Renault sells the electric car in Denmark, and Better Place sells the car in Israel.
"We're here to reaffirm our desire to be the electric vehicle capital in America, " he said.
It is everything in the electric utility business, where regulators essentially control company revenues and profit.
The Electric Defender retains the four-wheel-drive hardware and differential lock of the standard Defender.
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Because it supplies energy only intermittently, it can be difficult to integrate into the electric grid.
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There is a better approach: true deregulation of the electric utility industry--generation, transmission and distribution.
So unless the electric car is driven a lot, it will never get ahead environmentally.
What's Mr. Khan, the proprietor of Rose Bar and the Electric Room, up to lately?
Then it was time for the Electric Kool-Aid X Server Test, the moment of truth.
Here, Miani showed me the electric powered-roadster that Reva is coming out with in 2011.
Bad news for the electric power grid is usually good news for the fuel-cell industry.
And he had a deal with the electric company that they never turned the sign off.
It would be difficult to describe the electric car as a sales hit really.
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With increasing numbers of these stations, what is the potential impact to the electric grid?
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Poor sales have dogged the electric Ford Focus, Chevy Volt and Fisker Karma as well.
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