Definition of electrification
1 : an act or process of electrifying
2 : the state of being electrified
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Samuelsson, who acknowledged that the company had been skeptical about electrification only two years ago, said things had changed.
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The major U.S. automakers are moving forward with their own electrification strategies, albeit on a much smaller scale than Tesla and now Volvo.
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The state Democratic leadership expressed public outrage and went into overdrive to protect the electrification project.
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The electrification project will cost nearly $2 billion and replace at least some of Caltrain’s diesel locomotives with electric trains that can accelerate faster, thereby reducing travel times.
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Bill Callahan Sunnyvale Caltrain parking capacity also needs upgrade Caltrain electrification (Editorial, May 23) is long overdue.
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In the final days of the Obama administration, the Transportation Department agreed to spend more than $700 million on an electrification upgrade to the commuter CalTrain system in Northern California.
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Interest in floating plants is rising as more developing and remote communities push toward electrification, and the struggling nuclear industry tries to build smaller plants.
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This, too, was an improvised community’s electrification project, led by a man named Smith Merzeus, who, like Simeus, was someone people turned to with problems or grievances.
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