Already a school in Manchester, England has a dozen personal computers connected to the Internet by its electric power line.
Now he's working with VIA Motors, which today introduced a line of electric vehicles of a rather different scale.
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"Assembly Line" has a repetitive bass line (on both electric and synth bass), but the song is anything but monotonous.
I've tested an electric vehicle fresh off the assembly line.
Mash the pedal in Auto EV mode and, after the electric motor pulls you off the line, there's a brief delay before the gasoline engine comes to life and the CVT raises the RPMs to maximize efficiency.
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Bath's play in the first half was electric and their offloading and back-line moves had Brian Ashton's influence all over it.
If you're launching a line of extended-range electric vehicles, ala the Chevy Volt, it's hard to imagine a better person to help you with the launch than Bob Lutz, the driving force behind that very car.
American Electric Power (AEP) built a transmission line from West Virginia to Virginia in two years.
For instance, the Ford Focus Electric can be built on the same assembly line as other cars.
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As vehicles for GSA's electric vehicle pilot begin to roll off the assembly line, we will continue deliveries to the 20 Federal agencies across the country participating in our pilot.
While GM gave up on the car, AeroVironment kept up its electric vehicle research and development and has been offering EV charging and testing equipment and services to automakers as well as selling a line of chargers for heavy-duty electric forklifts.
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They range from grandfathers with traditional flowing sarongs hanging over their bare feet to teenagers clad in polo shirts and trainers, all climbing the 5, 000-odd stone steps that are illuminated by electric lights throughout the night, a glowing white line spiralling up the mountain and marking the way to the top.
It is true that some other green changes could help car makers notably a switch to electric cars which could give the manufacturers a new product line to make.
The only exception to the new rules if that new car you want to purchase is an all electric vehicle, you move to the head of the line.
And when a magnetic field line vibrates, he says, it makes an electric field which excites current in wires.
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That means C-MAX Energi is being built on the same line as C-MAX Hybrid, Focus, Focus Electric and Focus ST.
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Contractors have been replacing catenary wires the overhead electric cables that power trains in various spots along the line since 1991, and in some cases replacing original equipment erected in 1907.
When an electric potential of 50 volts is applied across the film, the particles line up and the glass turns transparent.
The Lexus' whirligig is familiar from the Toyota Camry and Avalon hybrids: a lean-burning Atkinson-cycle, 2.5-liter in-line four-cylinder (156 hp) coupled with two electric motors, one a 141-hp traction motor, the other a starter-generator.
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General Electric (GE) is looking to make China a bigger contributor to its bottom line.
American Electric Power plans to deploy Ti for the first time on a 765 kV transmission line in 2014.
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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.
The Edison Electric Institute and some of its coal-based utility members such as American Electric Power, FirstEnergy Corp. and Southern Company have said that they will fall in line but that they will need more time.
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Dirk Bowman watches with pride as we walk along an assembly line, while workers tweak and twiddle with lines of cylindrical water heaters at this General Electric plant in Louisville, Kentucky.
The bottom line is that electricity supplied by the power grid is increasingly incapable of providing the quality of electric service needed to operate an advanced economy.
The standard equipment furthermore includes electric windows and electrically adjustable door mirrors, a leather steering wheel, leather gear knob, the entry line radio, power steering, 9-spoke alloy wheels and a luggage compartment cover.
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C-MAX Energi is part of Ford's first dedicated line of hybrid vehicles in North America and will soon be available for order at Ford's certified electric-vehicle dealerships.
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