Sentence examples for like electrics from inspiring English sources

In Rotterdam, a few neighbourhoods have been designated as occasional flood zones, with resilient homes that feature measures like electrics placed high off the ground.

Like electrics and hybrids, fuel cells work.

And, like battery electrics, they are classed as zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs).This matters because carmakers have to show state authorities (California's Air Resources Board, in particular) that they are working hard to meet those states' zero-emission sales targets.

She added: "We're calling for a system which provides people with a refund if a private rented home doesn't meet the most basic standards like safe electrics and being structurally sound".

They expect tiny cars like the Tata Nano and hybrid electrics like Fisker Karma to lead the way.

Another festivalgoer, Eleanor Shakespeare, tweeted: "How could something so fundamental like water and electrics not be functioning at this late stage?

In the meantime, the Argonne engineers are developing a comparable procedure for testing pure electrics like the Leaf.That ought to be simpler.

General Motors thinks a majority of "range extender" Chevrolet Volt owners will choose eight-hour charges from house current, but the Volt's 16-kilowatt-hour battery pack is much smaller than those in pure electrics like the Leaf.

Beyond the inevitable birthing of new targets for political point-scoring, the failures contribute to the doubts that have arisen from lethargic sales of plug-in hybrids like the Chevrolet Volt, which recently took a four-week vacation from manufacturing because of excess inventory, and electrics like the Nissan Leaf.

Nowadays, the mpg figure for the combined cycle is usually pretty close to what most motorists can expect to achieve in everyday motoring.But today's sticker is meaningless when vehicles get at least some, if not all, of their energy from a plug on the wall rather than a pump at the petrol station as is the case with pure electrics like the Leaf and plug-in hybrids such as the Volt.

And being a still relatively sizeable slice of hardware, it's not a very elegant thing to stick on personal mobile electrics like smartphones and laptops.