Though they are now widely derided and written off in environmental circles, suburbs have emerged as the great swing zones of American politics, even as many are surprisingly prone to green retrofits. retrofits.
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Those could include expensive retrofits where "technically and economically justifiable".
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German Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer said on Tuesday that BMW has refused retrofits, and that Daimler , the maker of Mercedes cars, has said it could consider hardware retrofits but would concentrate on trade-in incentives.
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Many pieces are available as options or aftermarket retrofits for truck fleets.
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It currently retrofits Chrysler Pacifica minivans to use in its robotaxi fleet.
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This doesn't mean you can ignore city government's role in building retrofits.
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The expert group was divided on the cost and merit of retrofits.
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California budget ups fire spending; no money for retrofits, ABC news reports.
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Teleo: Retrofits existing construction equipment to allow operators to control them remotely.
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BERLIN, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Volkswagen said the German government must ensure that all car manufacturers offer hardware retrofits for diesel vehicles, after the car industry raised objections to an agreement by coalition parties on trade-ins and retrofits.
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BERLIN, Oct 2 (Reuters) - German carmaker Volkswagen has agreed to help with hardware retrofits for diesel cars but some details still need to be discussed while BMW has refused such retrofits, German Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer said on Tuesday.
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Previous NTSB investigations called for retrofits to prevent deaths in duck boat accidents.
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Does Trump's clean coal plan involve retrofits, or further subsidizing costly new plants?
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The diesel compromise is likely to feature both trade-in incentives and retrofits.
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In some cases, courts have ordered top-to-bottom retrofits of occupied buildings.
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Farmer's Fridge retrofits vending machines to serve up healthy foods — salads, sandwiches, granola, etc.
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The issue of hardware retrofits, which municipalities want, was not resolved at Monday's meeting.
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The government said it is due to decide soon whether costly retrofits are appropriate.
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Most ship owners are opting to do retrofits during other scheduled dry dock work.
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But state-of-the-art "deep" retrofits can reduce it by 70 to 90 percent.
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A spokesman said developing retrofits for each model would be extremely costly and time-consuming.
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Svenja Schulze, a Social Democrat (SPD), favours hardware retrofits that are unpopular with auto makers.
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Abt said the retrofits are not just for oil tankers but also for container ships.
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Easy, perhaps, if you are a new Ford F-150 with some retrofits for max comfort.
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"Dramatically" boosting access to federal financing for retrofits and new construction for schools and public buildings.
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Others calculated retrofits would cost only about 2,500 euros and recommended them as a viable solution.
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It called for familiar solutions like expanded bike lanes, but also wonky measures like energy retrofits.
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Numerous attempts to design retrofits failed until recent years when bump stocks came on the market.
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The Trump plan jettisons the state limits and asks only for modest retrofits at individual plants.
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Later this year, HyTech will introduce its second product line: pure hydrogen retrofits for ICE vehicles.
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I tend to be bullish on the potential of technology to advance rapidly, but having worked in residential energy use, and energy retrofits in particular, I find the amount of geothermal energy storage retrofits for heating and air-conditioning in buildings Jacobson assumed hard to fathom.
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Then there are the more creative "retrofits," which aren't so much hacking as completely repurposing the scooters.
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But retrofits are typically costly and difficult, so I asked Tandon just how plug-and-play Drive.
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Researchers found that the savings produced by home retrofits were far less impressive than government planners expected.
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"For every peso that you spend on retrofits, you are saving seven pesos later on," he added.
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It could be toward climate change, church retrofits, or housing that supports seniors and low-income people.
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Bear Flag Robotics retrofits tractors with autonomous technology, enabling farmers to automate tasks like spraying, mowing and ripping.
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"The big thing is they already paid the hundreds of millions to have retrofits put in," Stevenson said.
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One complaint of German carmakers is that foreign rivals would not be covered by any requirement for retrofits.
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"We have a commitment from Volkswagen for hardware retrofits," Scheuer said in a live video chat on Instagram.
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Porsche wants compensation from Audi for the costs of the retrofits, legal counseling and customer measures, Bild said.
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But such retrofits are expensive and result in increased taxes, diminishing the availability of multifamily properties for everyone.
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There might be a mayor who has articulated a strong interest in a subject like building retrofits, for example.
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Like Otto but unlike the aforementioned big names, NuTonomy retrofits existing cars with the technology to make them driverless.
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Not all carmakers committed to the retrofits, as the hardware fixes are known, which would cost billions of euros.
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But carmakers have not all committed to covering the cost of retrofits, which could run into billions of euros.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday said she would finalize a decision on diesel car retrofits on October 1.
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"For retrofits, we assume that the federal government will ensure that all manufacturers take part in such measures," it said.
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"Building-integrated PV" (BIPV) is designed into materials so that it is part of initial building construction (or big retrofits).
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Carmakers and German government representatives failed to reach a compromise on Sunday over potential hardware retrofits for older diesel vehicles.
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The portion of Aframax vessels requiring the retrofits is higher than those in the Suezmax fleet, one ship analyst said.
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This process has slowed in recent weeks, an indication that the number of applications for retrofits is rising, he said.
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The fleet used will consist of dedicated vehicles, rather than any retrofits of existing Access Services cars and transportation vehicles.
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This has prompted many power plants to switch from coal to natural gas, which often requires only relatively minor retrofits.
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BMW said on Tuesday it did not see hardware retrofits for diesel vehicles as a sensible solution to the problem.
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Drop-in robot pilots make for flexible retrofits, which can also leave aircraft ready for human control reversion where required.
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Partly because of the cost, Santa Monica is giving owners of steel-frame buildings 20 years to carry out retrofits.
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They said the changes may also be available as retrofits to existing A380s, but that this had not yet been decided.
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For example, the increased comfort low-income households gain through the retrofits reduces stress and makes them more productive at work.
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Schulze told the Passauer Neue Presse newspaper it would "would be nice" if German cities could meet NOx targets without retrofits.
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They will need to be replaced by TC-117 cars, or retrofits that meet the same standard, which has thicker steel.
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"If hardware retrofits are accepted by customers, then we will participate (in the costs) to the extent agreed," the person said.
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But even after multiple, expensive, upgrades and retrofits, coal-fired power plants remain less efficient and less flexible than combined-cycle units.
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" Asked whether the carmakers should pay for the hardware retrofits themselves, she said: "Yes - they are the ones who have caused this.
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While car owners should be given attractive incentives, retrofits should only be applied when they make technical and economic sense, Scheuer said.
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Households, businesses, and governments could invest tens of billions in energy retrofits that would pay for themselves in two to five years.
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DE) has agreed to help with hardware retrofits for diesel cars but some details still need to be discussed while BMW (BMWG.
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At the same time, the airlines perform the necessary retrofits and the manufacturers modify the design of the faulty parts and systems.
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Combined with over 7493 other initiatives, including LED retrofits, Fenway's efforts have resulted in a 12% reduction in total energy consumption since 2014.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Thursday that changing the imissions protection law made hardware retrofits of diesel cars attractive.
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On delivery vehicles and trade vans, the government would subsidize hardware retrofits with SCR systems by up to 53 percent, the document said.
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The government will continue discussions with carmakers on the possible need for more fundamental retrofits - including the addition of extra exhaust-cleaning systems.
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German carmakers initially offered software updates and shied away from endorsing hardware retrofits, instead lobbying for customers to buy new cars with cleaner engines.
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The startup retrofits old shopping carts with a camera phone and their positioning system so the carts know where they are in the store.
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Last June the European Investment Bank announced €250m ($282m) in funding for such retrofits; it hopes other banks will follow suit with billions more.
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Not all carmakers committed to the retrofits, as the hardware fixes are known, which would cost billions of euros and eat into profit margins.
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She said the federal government would also set aside an additional 432 million euros for hardware retrofits of small trucks with older diesel engines.
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The Transportation Department is due more than $26 million in capital funds for maintenance, bridge replacements, seismic retrofits, and bike and pedestrian path improvements.
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She said officials would also continue to look at potential retrofits of diesel cars, but expressed scepticism about how quickly those could be implemented.
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His company provides a marketplace that connects commercial building managers with green technologies for retrofits, as well as the capital to pay for it.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation expects flammable liquids to be carried in comparable DOT-117 rail tank cars, or retrofits, by May 1, 2029.
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The German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) said hardware retrofits were complicated and needed years of development, suggesting software solutions made more sense.
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Scheuer affirmed that he was opposed to bans, and that there were technical, legal and financial arguments against costly hardware retrofits of diesel vehicles.
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In February, Congress approved nearly $2628 billion for disaster mitigation activities — infrastructure upgrades, building retrofits and other improvements — that protect us from future hazards.
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All current recreational and commercial operations will not need to buy new drones or worry about costly retrofits with untold timelines for potential compliance.
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German carmakers initially offered software updates and shied away from endorsing hardware retrofits, instead lobbying for customers to buy new cars with cleaner engines.
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The automaker is partnering with a German firm called eClassics that will actually perform the retrofits, while VW will provide the batteries and powertrain.
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Mero Technologies: Retrofits commercial buildings with sensors to analyze in real time traffic and consumables, such as toilet paper and soap, to inform cleaning routes.
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Although the Javits Center, as well as the Morgan Processing and Distribution Center, have included bird-friendly retrofits in recent renovations, other buildings remain hazardous.
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Carmakers, however, did not all commit to covering the cost of retrofits, as the hardware fixes are known, which could run into billions of euros.
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The average building will stand for more than 70 years, so retrofits are going to be a major part of the fight against climate change.
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Another environmental justice win was a provision instructing ComEd to spend at least $25 million a year specifically on efficiency retrofits for low-income customers.
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Compology's WasteOS system retrofits a physical sensor into the refuse bins, allowing garbage collectors to monitor the volume of waste inside their commercial and industrial containers.
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" Schulze joined Scheuer in rejecting government funding for possible retrofits, adding, "It cannot be that taxpayers should have to pay for what the automakers screwed up.
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Sweden's Volvo had said on Monday it could also consider offering incentives, but that it was not considering any hardware retrofits for diesel vehicles in Germany.
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Transit agencies, which have traditionally bought new cars, are considering retrofits to respond to customer demand for amenities like Wi-Fi and accommodations for disabled riders.
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Though TuSimple currently retrofits existing trucks for pre-existing truck companies, it aims to have a factory-produced self-driving truck on the road by 2023.
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DE) are prepared to offer hardware retrofits to clean up older diesel vehicles at their own cost, Scheuer said following the meeting, adding that rival BMW (BMWG.
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A working group of German government officials and car industry lobbyists has recommended hardware retrofits for older diesel vehicles as a way to avert inner-city bans.
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BMW said on Tuesday it did not see hardware retrofits for diesel vehicles as a sensible way for cities to quickly meet European Union clean air rules.
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The most likely and logical strategy would be to pursue a combination of new construction projects, repairs and retrofits, selected to provide maximum bang for the buck.
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Better retrofits Our program is also developing effective retrofit methods for mitigating fatigue crack growth in steel structures, focusing on navigation facilities such as locks and dams.
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The agreement comes as the German government is due to hold a diesel summit on Friday with Scheuer, who has ruled out a taxpayer contribution to possible retrofits.
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They've built a kit that retrofits existing construction equipment with hardware like lidar, GPS and Wi-Fi, giving it the ability to autonomously map and navigate its surroundings.
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By 2014, Gunderson's retrofits had resulted in reaching a net-zero level of energy consumption, improving efficiency by over 40 percent and saving the system nearly $2 million.
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That led to retrofits and helped escalate costs to an estimated $400 billion, prompting the F-35 to be described as the most expensive weapon system in history.
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Volkswagen said whether retrofits were possible would depend on suppliers developing systems that were good enough, and it did not commit to covering the cost of hardware upgrades.
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Last year Santa Monica, which has identified more than 70 steel-frame buildings believed to have the problem, became the first city in California to order mandatory retrofits.
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The regional government of Hessen also called for a speedy reaction from Berlin on retrofits, which the car industry has lobbied against because it could cost billions of euros.
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" Schulze, of the SPD, said she was therefore campaigning hard for vehicles to get technical retrofits, adding: "In my view that's the only realistic way to avoid driving bans.
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The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is making the retrofits in the hope that private companies could begin flying astronauts to the station by the end of 2018.
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Merkel's government has, meanwhile, dithered over whether to require manufacturers to carry out costly retrofits on older models with exhaust-cleaning systems that would help reduce urban air pollution.
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BERLIN, May 31 (Reuters) - Germany's city of Hamburg said on Thursday it would uphold regional diesel-car driving bans until the federal government forces automakers to implement vehicle retrofits.
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Among them was how to prevent landlords from passing along the costs of the retrofits to tenants by raising rents, and how the mandate would apply to affordable housing.
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"Well, thanks for your question," he said, before calling for a carbon tax, building retrofits, better soil management and a quadrupling of federal funding for energy research and development.
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Yes, retrofits to comply with the nearly 30-year-old Americans with Disabilities Act can get costly — but there are tax incentives and grants to help pay for them.
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NDP Finance Minister Carole James announced her government will also use new carbon revenue to help families pay for green initiatives such as home retrofits or low carbon transportation.
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Video Analysts say the levy estimates failed to properly account for all the added costs of building new bike lanes, including the installation of necessary traffic signals and sidewalk retrofits.
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Companies should also describe their processes for identifying, assessing and managing climate risks, such as risk management processes, insurance coverage, planned facility moves or retrofits, and corporate climate resilience strategy.
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With MATS, the tight timeline and long lead-times required for retrofits forced many generators either to comply or shut down before the court finally ruled against it in 2015.
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After demolishing some printers and scanners, he donned his signature Bruno Chaussignand half-moon spectacles and a car coat by Clothsurgeon, a label that retrofits vintage sportswear brands like Champion.
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A spokesman for the Luftwaffe said three aircraft, including the one stranded in Lithuania, were out for unscheduled repairs, with two more in planned inspections and one receiving scheduled retrofits.
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The KBA has, however, not yet received complete applications for retrofits, Bild added in an advanced release of an article to run in its Friday edition, without citing a source.
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He said he expected it to take around six months after that to develop hardware retrofits and those would then need to be approved by the Federal Motor Transport Authority too.
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That includes examining retrofits of coal plants, which are due to be phased out by Germany, but Mastiaux said operators would have to be compensated if there were cases of expropriation.
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And while a slew of legislation introduced during the 2628th Congress sought to address the issue, one of the most opportune areas for cutting costs — energy-efficient retrofits — is largely unexplored.
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Meanwhile, retrofits for existing buildings to provide proper insulation, modern heating and cooling, and energy-efficient appliances would help struggling families afford to keep their homes warm and the lights on.
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In the heat sector, the rate of efficiency retrofits would need to double, and nearly 5 million oil-heated buildings would need to convert to electric-heat pumps or natural gas.
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She specifies rural broadband, municipal waterworks, energy efficiency retrofits, school construction, airports, seaports, inland waterways, and mass transit as all worthy of increased funding, along with — of course — highways and bridges.
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Limitations on both probably mean that we'll need zero-carbon HVAC alternatives that still draw on heated water or combusted fuel, which can substitute more easily in retrofits of today's buildings.
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As Thor and Loki watch their home burn to the ground, director Taika Waititi successfully retrofits all three Thor films into a story of colonialists learning to live with their own legacies.
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Speaking at an event in Hamburg, Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer also said that his ministry was in the process of stipulating technical regulations for hardware retrofits of manipulated diesel cars in Germany.
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EnviroCorp installed them around the country decades ago, during their initial round of scrubber retrofits, to buy time until they perfected the technology behind the "negative" part of the carbon-negative scrubbers.
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DE) on Thursday denied a media report that said the carmaker was prepared to fully cover the costs of diesel hardware retrofits, which would come in at 3,000 euros ($3,426.30) per vehicle.
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Morneau did not give specific details but one idea floated in The Globe and Mail newspaper this week, citing a senior official, has been to spend on retrofits to improve energy efficiency.
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"If around 2.5 million vehicles take up retrofits or trade-in incentives with costs between 53,500 and 5,000 euros, the total cost would be between 6.3 and 12.5 billion euros," he said.
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Though they are now widely derided and written off in environmental circles, suburbs have emerged as the great swing zones of American politics, even as many are surprisingly prone to green retrofits.
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The time it takes to get new exhaust filters certified for roadworthiness means retrofits take longer to implement than immediate trade-in incentives which allow clients to buy lower polluting cars, BMW said.
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DE), Germany's largest carmaker, has agreed to cover 0003,400 euros ($2,780) of the estimated 3,000-euro cost of hardware retrofits on its diesel cars, Scheuer said on a live video chat on Instagram.
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Voyage wants to put self-driving cars on the road as part of a fleet of taxis, created using retrofits to existing vehicles that add autonomous capabilities without requiring ground-up vehicle creation.
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Kumar said Amazon will install the technology including ceiling cameras and shelf weight sensors at retailers' stores, whether they are new locations or retrofits, and it will have a 24-7 support line.
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Kumar said Amazon will install the technology including ceiling cameras and shelf weight sensors at retailers' stores, whether they are new locations or retrofits, and it will have a 24-7 support line.
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The trifecta was completed when "We Will Rock You," which retrofits Queen songs, finally made its New York City debut this month with six performances at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden.
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The utility wants a dilution in nitrogen oxide emissions standards and claimed in last month's presentation that the lowered standards can be achieved with minor retrofits, without the need to install new equipment.
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Expand nationally a successful New York City program to train building operators to identify low- and no-cost ways to save energy and train electricians and installers on energy- and cost-saving retrofits.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government should not rule out requiring retrofits of heavily-polluting diesel cars, center-left Environment Minister Svenja Schulze said, underscoring differences among the parties in Chancellor Angela Merkel's governing coalition.
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Volkswagen is prepared to support hardware retrofits for older diesel vehicles and offer incentives for drivers to swap some older diesel vehicles for newer ones, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday.
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The airline has completed around 70 retrofits of the 737-800s, the American official said, but only around 15 were done by ATS, with the remainder handled in-house and by a separate supplier.
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Sharon Carey, the executive director of the Wabash Valley center, acquired the van in January, 2018, for a hundred and fifty thousand dollars, after finding a company that retrofits secondhand vehicles with medical equipment.
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"There are legal, financial and technical reservations against hardware retrofits that must not be overlooked," Scheuer told the RND group of newspapers, adding that prospects for hardware fixes would cause panic among car owners.
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Carmakers and German government representatives failed to reach a compromise on Sunday over potential hardware retrofits for older diesel vehicles, with the transport minister saying further talks would take place in the coming week.
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The first is a Lincoln MKZ Nvidia purchased kitted with sensors ready for autonomous driving off the shelf from a third-party supplier that retrofits the vehicles specifically for this purpose, affectionately nicknamed 'BB8.
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It means that if utilities fall short of 100 percent clean electricity in 2030, they can make up the difference by investing in other carbon-reducing projects, like, say, energy efficiency retrofits for customers.
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Kumar said Amazon will install the technology — such as ceiling cameras and shelf weight sensors — at retailers' stores, whether they are new locations or retrofits, and it will offer a 24/7 support line.
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San Francisco, which is straddled by the San Andreas and Hayward faults, has spent billions of dollars strengthening government buildings and other structures and has a program of mandatory retrofits for soft-story buildings.
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Increase funding for energy retrofits through the Weatherization Assistance Program and ensure that the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program is fully funded to meet needs and is also designed to encourage efficiency improvements.
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Soon after, Hamburg became the first German city to ban diesel cars that do not meet the latest Euro-6 standards from some busy streets, seeking to raise pressure on carmakers to undertake costly retrofits.
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The profit warning comes amid friction between the German government and carmakers over who pays for expensive retrofits of new exhaust systems for polluting older vehicles, and an ongoing probe by U.S. authorities into emissions.
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Automakers need to build the necessary Hubject chips and software deep into the guts of their vehicles (retrofits are unlikely, but current EV owners will still be able to plug and pay the old way).
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Volkswagen on Friday reiterated it would back retrofits — as the hardware fixes are known — and offer to shoulder 80 percent of the costs, but only on the condition that other carmakers would do the same.
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Owners of those buildings are hesitant to pursue energy-efficiency retrofits, she said, because they would also trigger demands for other upgrades, such as improved access for the disabled and better ability to withstand earthquakes.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer said on Thursday that Volkswagen and Daimler were prepared to offer hardware retrofits for older diesel vehicles at their own cost but BMW was refusing to do so.
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It's important for the oil, gas, and coal companies to know that investors are getting concerned, but I would like colleges and universities to also take on energy efficiency and carbon retrofits on their campuses.
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DE) has said it could consider hardware retrofits but would concentrate on trade-in incentives of up to 5,000 euros ($5,755.50) that encourage vehicle owners to switch their older diesel cars for newer, cleaner ones.
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New York came in second, with a high score for local government operations — including policies that encourage improvements in new buildings and retrofits to old ones, and an upgraded fleet of energy-efficient municipal vehicles.
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Rather than asking first what the money should be spent on, the process begins with battles over the size of the budget and retrofits onto it policy priorities for the best part of the next decade.
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BERLIN, Nov 8 (Reuters) - German carmakers Daimler and Volkswagen are prepared to fully cover the costs of diesel hardware retrofits, which would come in at 3,000 euros ($3,427.20) per vehicle, manager magazin website reported on Thursday.
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However, German Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer, a member of the Bavarian CSU sister party of Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), opposes costly hardware retrofits, saying he is committed to meeting emissions targets using measures already being implemented.
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While the Environment Ministry favors hardware retrofits costing around 3,000 euros ($3,527) per vehicle, Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer favors incentives for drivers of older diesel vehicles to trade them in for newer models to curb pollution.
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Son has been holding these gatherings almost quarterly in various locations in the U.S. and in Japan, said Stefan Heck, founder of Nauto, which retrofits commercial trucks with cameras and AI software to improve driver safety.
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HAMBURG/BERLIN (Reuters) - Hamburg will uphold a city-center ban on older diesel cars until air quality improves or Chancellor Angela Merkel's government enforces retrofits of emission-reducing technology, a senior local official said on Thursday.
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And spending money on green housing retrofits is 513-33 (a related proposal to spend money on removing lead paint is a home run at 57-23), and spending more on public housing is 47-33.
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With ambitions to be China's largest sponge city project, the Lingang city government has invested $119 million in retrofits and innovations that could be a model for the majority of Chinese cities lacking modern water infrastructure.
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Using limited public funds, these green banks leverage private capital in support of energy-efficiency retrofits, clean energy projects, and a range of other investments that are helping to address climate change and other environmental threats.
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In a statement, American said the issue did not jeopardize the safety of flights and that it is working with the supplier that handled the cabin retrofits and the Federal Aviation Administration to immediately address the issue.
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Sandith Thandasherry, chief officer of Navgathi Marine Design and Construction, an India-based vessel servicer, said so far this year his firm has already completed six retrofits for Aframax tankers with the new Panama route in mind.
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Volvo is not considering any hardware retrofits for diesel vehicles in Germany, a company spokeswoman said on Monday, denying a report by Germany's Der Spiegel magazine that said the Swedish carmaker was mulling that option.
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Part of the elegance of Peloton's approach is that the company is connecting the dots between systems which already exist, basing its product around after-market modifications of newer model trucks rather than retrofits of older ones.
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Instead, candidates need to embrace shale gas in many parts of the country, advocate for relicensing of zero-emissions nuclear plants and urge retrofits of existing polluting plants with carbon-capture technology, along with efficiency and renewables.
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Heck's company retrofits cars with outward and inward facing cameras and a layer of artificial intelligence that together work to notify drivers of any oncoming traffic, lights or potential obstacles while gathering anonymized data on driving behavior.
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New business models and strategies for encouraging adoption of energy efficiency-boosting retrofits are beginning to surface, thanks in part to the work of new forums such as the Network for Energy, Water, and Health in Affordable Buildings.
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Volkswagen doubts that hardware retrofits on older diesels are technically feasible and is only willing to foot the bill if it does not have to bear liability for any engine damage that may result, a company source said.
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RETROFITS Boeing now plans to make compulsory a light to alert pilots when sensor readings of the angle of attack do not match - meaning at least one must be wrong -, according to two officials briefed on the matter.
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German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported on Friday that a solution could involve a scheme under which carmakers would give owners of cars affected by driving bans vouchers for hardware retrofits by suppliers such as Baumot or HJS.
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Lower Saxony, home to Volkswagen, Europe's biggest carmaker, suggested vehicle owners should receive up to 2,000 euros in incentives and tax breaks to fund retrofits, the cost of which should be borne by manufacturers and the federal government.
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He's optimistic that there are multiple ways to make money, whether it's selling the sensor kits to companies like Caterpillar and John Deere for their machines, selling to contractors for retrofits or renting out the technology for projects.
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That would be a compromise between some German politicians who want BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen to pay for the cost of making older diesel vehicles cleaner and the carmakers who say hardware retrofits would be much too expensive.
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Under current rules, such major retrofits of old plants often come with a big demand: The owners must also spend hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade the air-pollution equipment to the best available technology, including scrubbers.
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To begin with, RMI runs the numbers on the costs of electrification under a variety of utility rate designs, for both new construction and retrofits, in four markets: Oakland, California; Houston, Texas; Providence, Rhode Island; and Chicago, Illinois.
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Though Trump has put up buildings ranging from nineteenth-century retrofits to late-modern skyscrapers, his personal style is a combination of 2000s bling and Louis XIV—nothing in his penthouse Trump Tower apartment is spared a metallic coating.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Most new diesel vehicles exceed the legal limit for nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions, German environmental lobby group DUH said on Friday, calling on the government to force car companies to carry out hardware retrofits of polluting cars.
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But, perhaps more importantly, these projects preserve the long-term jobs in communities that have depended on them for decades with the retrofits ensuring many more years of employment as upgraded plants emit far fewer carbon emissions than before.
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BERLIN, Nov 8 (Reuters) - A spokesman for Volkswagen on Thursday denied a media report that said the carmaker was prepared to fully cover the costs of diesel hardware retrofits, which would come in at 3,000 euros ($3,426.30) per vehicle.
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A separate index gauging investor morale in Germany rose in October despite rising pressure on its large automotive sector to cough up cash for expensive retrofits for older diesel models and concerns about the stability of Chancellor Angela Merkel's government.
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There are more than 900 Aframax tankers in the global fleet and around 500 Suezmax vessels, according to shipping experts, who estimate between half to more than three-quarters of the vessels, especially those built before 3003, would need retrofits.
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RETROFITS No direct link has been proven between the crashes, which killed a total of 346 people, but attention has focused on whether pilots had the correct information about the "angle of attack" at which the wing slices through the air.
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BERLIN, Sept 28 (Reuters) - The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks on Friday: German government and automotive industry representatives are expected to discuss whether hardware retrofits are needed to reduce pollution from older diesel vehicles.
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In any event, the future of the US CCS market is likely not purpose-built coal CCS plants, as the Kemper plant is, but retrofits on existing coal and gas plants with post-combustion capture, to cut long-term emissions.
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He told a news conference that Daimler has said it could consider hardware retrofits but would concentrate on trade-in incentives of up to 5,000 euros ($5,755.50) that encourage vehicle owners to switch their older diesel cars for newer, cleaner ones.
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A person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday that Volkswagen was prepared to support hardware retrofits, reversing its position and bowing to pressure that has mounted in the three years since it admitted to cheating diesel emissions tests.
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German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze told newspaper Tagesspiegel on Saturday she does not think software updates for diesel vehicles in Germany will be enough to solve air quality problems and that hardware retrofits are the only way to avoid driving bans.
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In the case of the Trump Tower at City Center, the real estate itself is owned by the developer, LC White Plains Residential II. The retrofits that the Trump Organization made to the Trump Tower at City Center are especially advanced.
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The 30-page paper sets out the requirements for a so-called "general operating permit", which is necessary for the motor vehicle authority KBA to approve the hardware kits - a first legal step for retrofits of diesel cars, Bild said.
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Given that, how much longer will it be before the genre naturally arrives at a Sheryl Crow figure, someone who retrofits pop with spare parts from country, folk and lite-soul and serves as a progressive hiding in plain sight?
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Marist's numbers, for reference, show overwhelming public support for a path to citizenship for the undocumented population, for an aggressive public option approach to universal health care, and for a "Green New Deal" of public investment in clean energy and efficient retrofits.
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Using a benchmark of 2,400 euros ($2,760) per car that Volkswagen has agreed to cover for diesel car retrofits, this could cost the industry up to 13.7 billion euros, excluding the 1.29 million commercial Euro 5 vehicles that are on German streets.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany on Friday cleared away legal hurdles for carmakers to upgrade exhaust emissions filtering systems on older diesel cars as a way to avoid vehicle bans, but failed to quell doubts among manufacturers and suppliers over the effectiveness of retrofits.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze has told a newspaper she does not think software updates for diesel vehicles in Germany will be enough to solve air quality problems and that hardware retrofits are the only way to avoid driving bans.
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Though this particular plant was now nearly a century old, occasional retrofits had kept it operating, with a brief pause in the mid-2010s during that period of uncertainty before the United States decided to become a "world leader" on climate change.
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The ban only affects 580 meters of Hamburg's Max-Brauer-Allee and 1.6 km of Stresemann Street but is significant because it is the first such move in Germany and because it could raise pressure on car makers to undertake costly retrofits.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government will decide in a few days whether and when hardware retrofits for diesel cars are appropriate, following a court ruling on a ban of diesel vehicles in Frankfurt, the secretary general of Germany's Christian Democrats said on Monday.
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Currently we are carrying out studies for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which manages major inland waterways, to evaluate the use of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composites for rapid and effect retrofits to mitigate underwater fatigue cracking in miter gates.
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The action closes a major chapter in the fight over the landmark regulation dubbed MATS, one of the most expensive Obama administration rules and the reason for a recent wave of closures of coal-fired power plants, which often require retrofits to comply.
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Currin coopts the kitschy appeal of midcentury pinups and retrofits it to make what purports to be a quasi-feminist statement about the female body, but like many of Currin's nude portraits, once you cash in its cheap sociology, you're left with little else.
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The non-carbon pricing policies are actually needed to expand an individual's options to avoid carbon costs by expanding access to low-carbon services such as bike lanes, public transit, and energy retrofits; and by informing consumers through policies such as home energy labelling.
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He and Schoettler have also been making related bets for years, including investing in Sphero (in their capacity as investors at Shea) and, more recently, under the Calibrate banner, funding Built Robotics, which retrofits construction equipment with the same sensor technology used in autonomous vehicles.
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BERLIN, Oct 1 (Reuters) - German carmaker Volkswagen has agreed to cover some but not all of the costs for hardware retrofits of diesel cars, Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer said on Monday, adding the German coalition still needed to decide how to plug the funding gap.
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BERLIN, April 21 (Reuters) - German Environment Minister Svenja Schulze has told a newspaper she does not think software updates for diesel vehicles in Germany will be enough to solve air quality problems and that hardware retrofits are the best way to avoid driving bans.
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BERLIN, Dec 28 (Reuters) - The following are some of the factors that may move German stocks on Friday: Germany's transport minister has cleared the way for retrofits, or hardware fixes, to older diesel cars to reduce pollution, daily Bild reported, citing a technical paper it had seen.
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"Our estimates suggest that little or no additional CO2420580-emitting infrastructure can be commissioned and that infrastructure retirements that are earlier than historical ones (or retrofits with carbon capture and storage technology) may be necessary, in order to meet the Paris Agreement climate goals," the paper said.
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"Our estimates suggest that little or no additional CO4203-emitting infrastructure can be commissioned and that infrastructure retirements that are earlier than historical ones (or retrofits with carbon capture and storage technology) may be necessary, in order to meet the Paris Agreement climate goals," the paper said.
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Rather than trying to return coal miners to the mines, this Administration should instead launch an effort to retrain workers in these areas to develop skills for renewable energy industry jobs, including solar installations, efficiency retrofits, and deployment of other clean energy resources with significant growth potential.
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In a letter to the senators, Boeing's executive vice president of government operations wrote that the safety features described by Markey would be standard in all 85033 MAX 8 jets going forward, and that airlines had been offered retrofits with the new safety features at no cost weeks ago.
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The debate over air quality and hardware retrofits has been stoked by reports of persistently high nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions in Germany's largest cities and by Volkswagen's admission in 2015 that it had rigged diesel emissions tests in the United States with the help of engine control devices.
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Owing to new regulation implemented by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to curb sulphur emissions, scrubber retrofits and removals of older fleets with a high compliance cost are expected to lead to fleet tightening, which will help increasing freight rates across sectors and ultimately boost orders, said IHS Markit.
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HOUSTON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - The promise that some oil traders and brokers saw for an expanded Panama Canal to become a new route for large tankers will take longer to realize than expected because many ships must first undergo inconvenient retrofits to transit through the new locks, shipping industry experts said.
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Although the new standards were published in advance of the canal's opening, the required retrofits come as the shipping industry is already facing financial strain, adding another wrinkle to an opening beset by cost overruns and several incidents in which ships scraped the walls of the new canal amid concerns about its design.
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" Ms. Klobuchar's campaign referred to her infrastructure plan, which calls for "sweeping legislation that invests in green infrastructure, modernizes our aging energy infrastructure so that it is secure and efficient, strengthens bioenergy capabilities, puts incentives in place to overhaul our building codes, and invests in energy efficiency retrofits and rural renewable energy development.
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Bernie will invest $180 billion over 10 years in sustainable retrofits for public housing through the Green New Deal and $70 billion in the Housing for All plan to repair, modernize and build new public housing, including making all public housing accessible and providing access to high-speed broadband for all public housing residents.
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