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Designed for the BMW Motorrad Innovation Contest, the Halbo turns saving the planet into an extreme sport.
Conceived by designer Pierre Yohanes Lubis, the electric bike is much more planet friendly than say a petro-based vehicle. But, if the concept were to become popular it’s just unsafe enough to thin the herd.
I like old stuff. Sure new stuff is nice, and nobody wants to eat moldy old bread. But I am always impressed by the ingenuity and gusto of inventors who didn’t have the benefit of the Internet, telephones, and sometimes couldn’t even read. They just had an idea, and made it work with their own two hands. Now it wouldn’t be fair for me to accuse today’s engineers and inventors of lacking in good ideas, but too often it seems like a new idea means a complicated idea. So I am going to try and keep a weekly column on old ideas that never really took off, but to me still seem like there might be some merit to them.
Thus I present you a brief history of the steam car.
LA County Sheriffs stuck driving Crown Vics are about to be left feeling tragically un-hip. Their Board of Sups just approved a deal with BMW to lease 17 fully electric MINI Coopers.
Approved on Tuesday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department will lease the MINI Es for only $10 a month. With a market lease rate of $850, automaker BMW offered up the bargain price in exchange for deputy’s feedback.