Sentence examples for quiet electric from inspiring English sources

And being quiet, electric trainers should not annoy the neighbours as trainee pilots practice their take-offs and landings.

In a phone interview, Mr. Martens said that the special management area could, for instance, give the state leeway to restrict motorboats to those with quiet electric engines and allow more motorized access during the less busy "shoulder seasons" of spring and fall.

Indeed, in her bubble, its quiet electric motor purring, Ms. Tarr no longer views traffic as the supreme obstacle that her auto-bound peers do: while the high-seated S.U.V. gives a driver the illusion of being above the fray, the GEM lets her scuttle cheerfully alongside.

The cars were wrapped in black-and-white graphic camouflage to disguise their exact designs, but the cars did drive out under their own quiet electric power (unlike Faraday Future's much-hyped prototype).

By 2020, we expect a majority of transit buses sold in the U.S. to be electric, and we expect the availability of highly efficient, low cost, zero emissions, and quiet electric buses to lead to a renaissance of urban transit in the United States.

At (0 53), a drumbeat enters, along with the quiet electric guitars in the background which slowly become more predominant.

It is not a mistake anyone should contemplate making again.Peter Hendy London's transport commissioner Transport for London LondonBoom boxesSIR – Your article about making quiet electric-cars louder, and therefore safer so that pedestrians and cyclists can hear them, posed a question: "What sort of noise should electric-powered cars make?" ("The sound of silence", May 9th).

For instance, a blind person going by sound may be ready to step off the curb to cross the street, but the dog needs to have the last word, in case a bicyclist or a super-quiet electric car is coming along.

Quieter electric cars, too, could eventually make corners of the city that now seem horrible quite beautiful".

This situation has the potential to get dramatically worse as both the production of quieter electric and hybrid vehicles and the number of pedestrians distracted by hand-held electronic devices increase.

Other recent ideas include solutions for mapping and theft-prevention – and an app which sounds a smartphone alert on the approach of an Uber taxi (designed to alert the cyclist that one of their quiet Toyota Prius electric hybrids is nearby).