How to Use electrification in a Sentence

electrification

noun
  • The news comes amid a busy week for electrification at GM.
    David Ferris, Scientific American, 17 June 2021
  • The second step is to replace the use of gas and oil in buildings with electrification.
    George Oliver, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2023
  • As electrification has spread across the world, the amount of rest available to the earth has diminished.
    Christopher Preston, Smithsonian, 26 Nov. 2019
  • The good thing is that there’s a Moore’s Law that seems to be happening across our electrification goals.
    Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Vance’s stance on electrification happens to be at odds with those of GM.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The marque has been at the forefront of electrification with the i3 and i8 premiering the new electric age.
    Nargess Banks, Forbes, 27 May 2022
  • The city of San Diego has had electrification as part of its climate action plan since 2015.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2021
  • With the ordinance, the city will be the 52nd community in the state to adopt reach codes for electrification.
    Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2021
  • But the electrification project could run up against the basic rules of supply and demand.
    WIRED, 27 Aug. 2022
  • In Arizona, the value of electrification would be among the greatest for any state.
    Joan Meiners, The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2022
  • That electrification work will take place in a new design hub in Berlin, although the cars will still be hand-built in Molsheim.
    Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Climate activists have been pushing for electrification of the fleet for the better part of a decade.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The grants are part of the Driving PA Forward program, which funds a number of electrification grants.
    Washington Examiner, 13 Jan. 2024
  • As Ireland began the process of nationwide electrification in the 1930s, the tale of Stingy Jack started to fade.
    National Geographic, 27 Oct. 2020
  • The 69-year-old Corvette will soon succumb to electrification.
    Morgan Korn, ABC News, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The electrification of Ford’s fleet isn’t the most challenging task that the company faces.
    John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The electrification of driving isn’t slowing the growth spurt.
    Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2023
  • One of the main points of the rail electrification was to reduce diesel emissions in the San Jose to San Francisco corridor by 96%.
    Dave Cortese, The Mercury News, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Roosevelt brought electrification to the rural south and so much more.
    Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 3 Apr. 2021
  • But the apparent stall in the mass adoption of electrification has fouled this plan, and Mercedes has walked back its steps in that regard.
    Brett Berk, Robb Report, 9 Feb. 2025
  • The fleet of 14 engines has replaced diesel trains on a commuter line near the city of Hamburg, where the high costs of electrification would be too expensive.
    Sabrina Weiss, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The scale of electrification will be more massive than any project America has seen in decades.
    Alex Laskey, Fortune, 29 July 2020
  • In an ideal world, electrification would enable the rich world to scrap its most decrepit gas cars.
    David Zipper, Vox, 3 Sep. 2024
  • In the age of globalization, the market must escape the same maze of adapters that beleaguered the first wave of electrification.
    Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 2 Aug. 2020
  • The move to full electrification is set to happen quickly.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 5 Nov. 2020
  • The rest will be hybrids, as Volvo plans to offer some form of electrification in all its models.
    Wired, 16 Oct. 2019
  • Projects like expanding the Second Ave. subway line and electrification of the bus fleet will be in limbo as well.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 3 July 2024
  • The sales tax averts a shutdown, funds electrification of the train line and provides dedicated funding for the next three decades.
    Mallory Moench, SFChronicle.com, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Global electricity demand is expected to double by 2050 as the world rapidly shifts toward the electrification of traditional processes.
    Matthew Dawson, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Grids are currently expanding across Europe to allow for additional loads from cooling, electric vehicle charging, heat pumps and the electrification industry.
    April Roach, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2025

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