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The current Indian fleet of mainly Russian and French planes has suffered from no such problems, and the existing ground-support and maintenance infrastructure would have needed major changes to handle US aircraft.
A recent paper by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s SMART Future Mobility team shows that the mobility demand of a city like Singapore – potentially host to the world’s first publicly-accessible fleet of self-driving cars – could be met with 30% of its existing vehicles.
Thanks to Chinese Admiral Zheng He, who steered his naval fleet across the Indian Ocean seven times in the early fifteenth century, the Chinese wok became the favorite cooking vessel of women in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala.
However sad and painful it is to admit, a fleet of slave ships docking on Africa’s shores today would be overrun by willing would-be deportees.
It is a golden rule within the alliance that the bulk of NATO’s forces and capabilities are owned by individual nations – the alliance’s fleet of Airborne Warning and Command System (AWACS) aircraft is a rare exception.
The German government estimates that domestic electricity prices would rise by just €0.01/kWh, equivalent to €3 ($3.90) per month for an average German household, if it phased out its nuclear fleet.
When it sees a political and market opening, China can be remarkably fleet of foot.
Argentina has the world’s largest fleet of vehicles running on compressed natural gas; families use gas intensively; most electricity is generated with gas; and the petrochemical industry is based on it.
By increasing the efficiency of its US fleet of trucks, Walmart avoided the emission of nearly 650,000 metric tons of CO2 from 2005 to 2015, and saved nearly $1 billion in 2016 alone.
With the right innovations in technology and policy, we can bring order to the scattershot nature of India’s auto-rickshaw fleet and bridge the demand-supply gap.
Policies that encourage ride sharing could multiply fleet capacity.
Angell puzzled over how pre-WWI pan-German politicians could believe that German prosperity required a big battle fleet when the absence of one made no difference to the prosperity of Norway, Denmark, or Holland.
Under an agreement signed in 1997, Ukraine granted Russia basing rights for the fleet at Sevastopol in Crimea until 2017.
Ukraine has been pressing Russia to begin discussions on the fleet's withdrawal.
But Russia has dragged its feet, suggesting that Moscow may seek to use the presence of the fleet as a means of pressuring Ukraine.
Second, the storage capacity of the vehicle fleet will play an important role in stabilizing the power grid.
The automobile fleet will become part of the overall power grid, and will be managed efficiently (and remotely) to optimize the timing of recharging from, and returning power to, the grid.
In addition, 50,000 old taxis and 10,000 buses have been replaced, and 4,000 of the new buses are powered by natural gas – now the largest fleet of its kind in the world.
Recycling proponents want ultimately to build a fleet of fast neutron reactors that could consume the plutonium and other fissionable material.
The Alvarez study estimated a cost of $3-5 billion for the entire US reactor fleet, which is the largest in the world.
Outraged at being forced to back down, the Japanese invested in shipyards to build a modern fleet.
The Japanese aircraft carrier Akagi , which led the attack on Pearl Harbor, flew the battle flag flown by the Mikasa , Admiral Togo's ship when he attacked the Russian fleet at Port Arthur.
“You know,” the first man replies, “It was when the Vietnamese bombed the American fleet and started the Vietnam War.”Historical memory is not always quite as bad as this.
Ultimately, the mechanization of the textile industry ushered in the Industrial Revolution, and mass production and exports underpinned the development of the world’s largest maritime fleet.
Bilateral security cooperation also progressed, with the Russian Navy holding a three-day maritime exercise with Iran’s Caspian fleet.
It also presupposes a switchover to a zero-carbon transport fleet and a lot more production per kilowatt-hour of energy.
Perhaps the greatest symbol of these accomplishments in the early years of the 15th century were the great naval expeditions of the Chinese fleet, in which ships of monumental proportion sailed the routes of Southeast Asia, to India, and even to East Africa during the years 1405 to 1431.
In the 1430s, China abandoned naval expeditions, dismantling its fleet.
Imagine a handful of technicians replacing a fleet of taxi drivers and truckers, a small cadre of human mechanics maintaining a full robot workforce, or a single data analyst and his software replacing a bank of quantitative researchers.
But, even with a road, you still must pay for tolls, gasoline, fleet maintenance, and other costs – and it can still take five days to get your goods to the coast if you want to export.
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