Drive Clean Drive electric Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! Dr. Paul Mac Cready ‚ Jr. The future of transportation is here‚ and it’s knocking at your door! Our day-to-day means of transportation is changing and the more municipalities‚ business leaders‚ utilities and end-users know about Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEVs)‚ the more prepared they will be to embrace the “vehicles of tomorrow”
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The most obvious advantage of electric car batteries is that they don’t produce the pollution associated with internal combustion engines. According to the Electric Vehicle Association of Canada‚ or EVAC‚ even EVs recharged from coal-powered electric generators cut carbon emission roughly in half. EVs recharged from cleaner forms of electrical power generation‚ such as hydropower and nuclear plants‚ can reduce carbon emissions to less than one percent of those currently produced by internal combustion
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Executive Summary The recent acquisition of French energy company Alstom by General Electric has made a lot of headlines in the world recently. This is one of the largest acquisitions by the General Electric and involved a lot of complexities. The Alstom’s board of directors was ready to cut the deal with General Electric but French government has made this deal as the national pride and tried to interfere. They opposed this deal on the ground of loss of jobs in France but in reality the French
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GE Analysis a) Political As a multinational company‚ General Electric has to deal with political systems of different nations. In spite of some of the countries presenting favorable environment for business survival and growth‚ others present difficult conditions. Tax systems and regulations also differ across countries and so does the level of government intervention in business activity. For example‚ in United States‚ the Internal Revenue Authority requires companies to submit tax returns annually
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case study is already introduced throughout the report. The focus will be on the widespread electric car acceptance. The aim of this chapter is to answer the following question: How can better use of AHP in this specific phase be achieved? An AHP study will be setup by‚ amongst other things‚ establishing a hierarchy. After the AHP method is ready to be used‚ a survey is designed in order to retrieve general information about the participants and get insight in the preferences of the participants for
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ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT OPINION BRIEF Are electric cars actually bad for the environment? New research suggests that you have to drive an electric car a long‚ long way for it to be greener than a gas-guzzling vehicle POSTED ON JUNE 14‚ 2011‚ AT 10:30 AM A hybrid car is plugged into a charging station in San Francisco‚ Calif.: Electric cars may have bigger carbon footprints than their gas-guzzling competitors‚ according to a new study. Photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty ImagesSEE ALL
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General Electric Comprehensive Company Analysis BA 498-Business Policy and Strategy Spring 2010 Table of Contents Executive Summary Page 1 Proposed Mission Statement Page 2 Environmental Mission Statement Page 2 External Audit Pages 2-4 Opportunities Page 3 Threats Pages 3-4 Competitive Environment Analysis Page 4 Rivalry Among Competing Firms Page 4 Potential Entry of New Competitors Page 4
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particularly eco-conscious‚ but they have now made their way into the mainstream. Most major motoring brands offer Hybrids with models like the Toyota Prius‚ the Honda CR-Z and the Lexus CT proving popular. They work by combining a fuel engine with electric batteries‚ which reclaims energy when the car brakes or converts energy from the petrol in the fuel engine. However‚ more manufacturers are developing ’plug in’ Hybrids‚ which offer the option to recharge more powerful batteries through a common
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there are some things that are fundamentally wrong with GM. To start with‚ GM faced the consequences for what GOP warned every one about for the last 2 years in 2009 that how our auto industry consumes more oil if we don’t switch from gas guzzlers to electric cars‚ hybrids‚ and fuel cells‚ and the compact cars‚ the key player in the carbon-conscious automobile market of the next ten years‚ especially one powered by diesel engine. Also‚ GM has lost its ability to develop small cars with the sale of its
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CREATING THE CLEAN ENERGY ECONOMY Analysis of the Electric Vehicle Industry Creating the Clean Energy Economy Analysis of the Electric Vehicle Industry Primary Authors Jennifer Todd is an Economic Development Associate at IEDC. Jess Chen is a Research Fellow and a PhD candidate at American University. Frankie Clogston is an IEDC Consultant and a PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins University. Primary Editors Liz Thorstensen‚ Vice President of Knowledge Management & Economic Development
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