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Underwater search vehicles are homing in on an area just a few kilometers wide in the vastness of the southern Indian Ocean, some 2,000 kilometers northwest of Perth.
We could therefore achieve huge reductions in CO2 emissions by converting to small, lightweight, battery-powered vehicles running on highly efficient electric motors and charged by a low-carbon energy source such as solar power.
Even better, by shifting to electric vehicles, we would be able to use cutting-edge information technology to make them smart – even smart enough to drive themselves using advanced data-processing and positioning systems.
In the United States, sport and crossover utility vehicles – the largest of which are five meters long and weigh 2.6 tons – are the automobile market’s fastest growing sector.
A world in which 2.6-ton vehicles were prohibitively expensive for single-passenger use would entail no sacrifice of human welfare.
DONG Energy has invested in Project Better Place Denmark and is contributing to the development of a Danish infrastructure for electric vehicles.
Policy-directed investment vehicles, which have grown in number and significance in recent years, are critical to this effort.
Some efforts at innovative education financing are being mounted, such as the recently launched social-impact bond for education in the Indian state of Rajasthan; but scaling up such vehicles will require greater institutional capacity and a far larger and more liquid market.
If the success of the company’s diesel-powered vehicles was due in part to fraudulent efforts to conceal the amount of harmful pollutants they emitted, will similar revelations at other companies call into questions the country’s transformation from “the sick man of Europe” to an export-driven economic powerhouse?
To close this gap, we need to design loans and savings vehicles with more flexible requirements that work for women.
Volvo executives may be anticipating that traditional vehicles will be less profitable in the future.
Climate Funds such as the Climate Investment Fund, the Global Environment Facility, and the recently created Green Climate Fund deserve support as major vehicles for developing workable solutions.
Just as rules-based processes have laid the groundwork for self-driving vehicles, rules-based precision medicine will steadily increase the importance of automated super-machines in health care.
At the Jackson Hole conference, Paul McCulley of PIMCO, the world’s largest bond fund, argued that in the past month or two we have been witnessing a run on what he calls the “shadow banking system,” which consists of all the levered investment conduits, vehicles and structures that have sprung up along with the housing boom.
Meanwhile, real-estate developers and local government financing vehicles (LGFVs), which offer banks a false sense of security and guarantee of profitability, have acquired a major share of financial resources.
Drones for DevelopmentLAUSANNE – Unmanned aerial vehicles have populated both the imagination and nightmares of people around the world in recent years.
China, which has never adopted legally binding limits on its nuclear weapons or strategic nuclear-delivery vehicles, rejects Russia’s call to join negotiations – a stance that the US supports until the Russian and US nuclear arsenals move closer in size to those of China.
Such blended finance vehicles, though in their infancy, have already been shown to work well elsewhere in the world.
Furthermore, reducing local-government financing vehicles’ exposures is essential.
Among a variety of rare-earth elements, neodymium and dysprosium are widely used as a magnetic material for motors in environmentally friendly vehicles and home appliances, while erbium is used as a dopant in optical fibers and cerium as an abrasive for polishing liquid crystal display (LCD) glass.
Measures aimed at accomplishing this could be particularly effective in countries where emission standards for diesel-fueled vehicles have not yet been introduced, and in countries, especially in Asia and Africa, where rural dwellings are heated by primitive stoves and food is prepared over open fires, causing large emissions of soot particles.
The just-collapsed credit bubble, fueled by so-called special investment vehicles, derivatives, collateralized debt obligations, and phony triple-A ratings, was built on the illusions of mathematical modeling.
Only a fraction of Germany’s weapons and military vehicles are operational.
Together with other aid agencies, IRC staff formed a convoy and MONUC offered armed vehicles to protect it.
Internet investment vehicles are growing.
Iran exported more than $30 million in natural gas, motor way vehicles, textiles and foodstuffs to its Central Asian neighbors in 1993, more than three times the 1992 figures.
Lower-income countries account for only half of all vehicles on the road but suffer more than 90% of the fatalities.
In Europe, even as the number of vehicles has doubled, the number of road deaths has been halved.
Fifteen years ago, the Renault-Nissan Alliance evaluated the environmental impact of its vehicles over their life cycle.
Today, ours is the only auto group that mass-produces a full line of zero-emission cars and light commercial vehicles.
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