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...been cool. After all, what self-respecting rider would let a battery do all the work? But fuel-cell technology, which uses pollution-free hydrogen gas to generate an electric current, could ignite electric-bike sales. The first prototype, from Italian bikemaker Aprilia, stores compressed hydrogen in a 2-liter metal canister housed in the frame. With a top speed of 20 m.p.h., the bike won't win the Tour de France. But it weighs 20% less than regular electrics and travels twice as far, about 43 miles, before it needs more gas. Now that's cool...
...Mini general manager Trevor Houghton-Berry insists that not only will the Mini make money in its own right at current production levels, its miserly fuel consumption (15.3 km per liter) will also help BMW meet European 2008 emission standards by taking pressure off the company's larger, more gas-hungry models. "Taken in that context, the Mini plays an important part in the finance strategy of the group," Houghton-Berry says...
...monger, spar with each other in even more perfectly chosen accoutrements. Jarvis wears flats and a baggy sweater, Nightingale a tailored three-piece suit and elaborate facial hair. The production's selection of properties, which range from a brace of hunting pistols in the past to a humorously situated liter of Tanqueray in the present, rounds out the immense visual appeal of this Arcadia, the fact of which is quite an accomplishment for director Patrick Demers precisely because the play is so centered on words...
...wine dealers. Clark Gibson not only paid $600 for a $59 Sine Qua Non 1997 Imposter McCoy Syrah, he also drove from Chicago to pick it up. At the 20th annual Napa Valley Wine Auction for charity last month, collector Chase Bailey bid $500,000 for a single six-liter bottle of a 1992 Screaming Eagle Cabernet, the highest auction price ever paid for a bottle of wine. Under what circumstances do you imbibe a half-million-dollar bottle of wine? "I haven't the slightest idea," says Bailey. "Maybe we'll have a great party...
...bureaucrats or managers of state-owned enterprises, all of whom have chauffeurs, the car is built for a backseat passenger. Air-conditioning and radio controls face the backseat. The chassis has been strengthened to deal with China's bad road surfaces. The V6 engine has been reduced from 3.1 liters to 2.98 to get around an unwritten rule in China that only people of ministerial level are allowed to drive 3-liter cars...