retrofit

The newest jet—one donated by the Qatari government—went through a rapid retrofit to meet Trump’s request for it to fly by July 4, America’s 250th birthday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

“We build new projectors every day, but film projectors, using this film, it’s not practical. So we’ve got to find them and retrofit them and rebuild them, which is what we did for ‘Odyssey.’

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026

The alternative to this is to build new bespoke plants or retrofit existing facilities with new kit, from companies like Colorado-based AMP.

From BBC ● May 4, 2026

When HW3 was introduced, Tesla also offered the ability to retrofit some older models with the then-new hardware offering.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 23, 2026

The Center has since benefitted by a forty-million-dollar retrofit, but there's still enough forest and swamp on the facility for the Border Patrol to put in tracking practice.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Bruce Sterling

On Net Zero he proposes a "Northern Way", which subsidises the transition, retrofits, cutting bills, and building exportable locally owned industry.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

There are industry divides over which bill allows more flexibility to comply with new mandates and whether airlines should be required to make potentially costly retrofits of cockpit systems.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026

The ADS-B In retrofits might not be compatible with hundreds of planes in the U.S. commercial fleet, according to Bedford, the FAA administrator.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026

These efforts don’t have to be expensive, he said, pointing to a list of low-cost retrofits from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025

Others contend that retrofits should be considered a cost of doing business, given how owners are on the hook for things like replacing leaky roofs or upgrading old electrical panels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2024

For excursions on land, Green Safaris’s lodges have retrofitted Land Rovers to run on batteries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

The expansion follows Waymo’s launch of its new vehicle dubbed the Ojai, which is larger and cheaper to produce than the retrofitted Jaguar I-Paces that the company previously relied on.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Dahlia and Mark discuss what happens when popular constitutionalism is retrofitted as originalism, and why no constitutional win, no matter how popular, is ever truly permanent.

From Slate ● Aug. 1, 2026

A vehicle was retrofitted so that Lillard could drive.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

His first floor was now being retrofitted to accommodate his wheelchair—its doorways widened, its kitchen sink lowered—part of a joint effort between a nonprofit called Rebuilding Together and the company that owned Sears and Kmart.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Longer term, he said the UK needed a more strategic approach, including collecting better data, targeted retrofitting of existing homes and learning from hotter countries through measures such as external shutters and reflective exterior paint.

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

At those levels, buyers can commission their own dream homes instead of retrofitting someone else’s fantasy.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026

In April the government approved a legal framework to allow people to convert their petrol and diesel vehicles into electric ones, known as "retrofitting".

From Barron's ● May 3, 2026

It could spend a bundle retrofitting to comply, or lose a bundle in sales.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026

After the 6.7 Northridge earthquake in 1994, seismic retrofitting became a rule for many buildings, not an option.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 2026