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BMW in the News
If the BMW bicycle was to expensive, what about the skateboard?
gizmag.com
BMW StreetCarver ÔÇô hign speed, high thrill, high cost skateboard
TED: Ideas worth spreading
TED Blog,Conferences, Themes, Talks and Speakers
BMW Press: News and press releases from the official BMW sources
World of BMW News
Peace, Love and Adventure
BMW GroupPress Club:
PressClub Latin America
BMW of Brazil - resulted quarterly
The BMW of Brazil keeps its trajectory of growth in 2007. In as the trimester of the year, they had been you deliver to 534 vehicles the customers, what it the same represented an increase of 16,6% in relation the period of 2006.
Also the segment of motorcycles in Brazil suffered considerable increase in vendas in the mentioned period. They had been in the total 188 units vendidas in as the trimester of 2007, resulting in 74% of increase with regard to the same period of the last year.
In the gathered of the year, until the June month (also), the BMW of Brazil added 1009 units of vehicles and 360 motorcycles you deliver the customers. Both had represented increase, of respectively 11.2% and 63.6% with regard to the same period in 2006.
PressClub USA
BMW AND NASA CONCLUDE TEST PERIOD OF BMW HYDROGEN 7
Eight-Week-Long Test Underscores Companies' Mutual Support of Hydrogen Technologies
Cape Canaveral, FL - August 8, 2007... As NASA engineers prepare to launch the Space Shuttle Endeavour today, BMW of North America and NASA announced the successful completion of an eight-week test period of the BMW Hydrogen 7 - the first-ever hydrogen-powered luxury sedan.
The test period, which was initiated under a Space Act Agreement between NASA and BMW, underscores the organizations' shared commitment to advancing hydrogen technologies and to exploring innovative transportation concepts and alternative energy sources.
"We are very proud to have been able to offer this test period of the BMW Hydrogen 7 to NASA, an organization that truly is on the forefront of discovery and innovation and with whom we share a unique common goal: the use and ongoing research of liquid hydrogen solutions," said Karl-Heinz Ziwica, Vice President of Engineering, BMW of North America.
"It is the high energy density of liquid hydrogen that allows the space shuttle to be accelerated into space. The same concept is used to power the BMW Hydrogen 7. Using hydrogen as a fuel can potentially reduce CO2 emissions by 90 percent. The BMW Hydrogen 7 is tangible proof that hydrogen-drive vehicles are a very viable option for the future of sustainable mobility, and we're pleased that NASA was able to experience it first-hand."
During the test period, NASA personnel had full access to the fleet of BMW Hydrogen 7s, which run on a form of liquid hydrogen similar to what NASA uses in its shuttles. During their time with NASA, the vehicles - which feature a dual combustion engine capable of running on liquid hydrogen or gasoline and shifting seamlessly between the two - were conveniently refueled using the space center's liquid hydrogen fueling supply located on the space center's premises.
The BMW Hydrogen 7
Last year, BMW underscored its commitment to hydrogen-drive technologies with the debut of the BMW Hydrogen 7 - the world's first hydrogen-drive luxury performance automobile - to help stimulate demand for a viable hydrogen infrastructure in the long term. The car comes equipped with an internal combustion engine capable of running on either liquid hydrogen or gasoline and is based on the BMW 760Li. The V12 cylinder engine delivers 260 hp; the top speed of the Hydrogen 7 is 143 mph and acceleration 0-60 mph is 9.2 sec. When driving in hydrogen mode, emissions of the BMW Hydrogen 7 are virtually nothing but water vapor. Since the start of research and development in alternative fuel sources more than 25 years ago, BMW has focused on liquid hydrogen as the appropriate source of energy for the automobile. The car features a high-tech vacuum super-insulated hydrogen tank in which liquid hydrogen can be stored at the extremely low temperature of -423 ?? Fahrenheit (-253 ??Celsius) for a long period of time - the same insulating effect as a 17-meter-thick layer of Styrofoam. One hundred BMW Hydrogen 7s have been built, and 25 are used in test programs in the US. The cars have already covered more than 1.3 million miles in test programs around the globe.
BMW Sauber F1: Website
BMW Motorsport
BMW Yachtsport
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BMW Oracle Racing
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WTF is that?
Goofy tricycle thing gives new meaning to the word ÔÇ£hybridÔÇØ
bemidjipioneer.com
Carver creates wooden motorcycle
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Motorcycle sales slow
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Nortley Fartster Caf?® Racer for sale
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[url= http://www.wheels24.co.za/Wheels24/NewsPics/0,,1369-1375_2160387,00.html]wheels24.co.za[/url]
McLaren ÔÇÿkeenÔÇÖ to ditch Alonso
[url= http://www.f1complete.com/content/view/5697/617/]f1complete.com[/url]
Haug denies Alonso released from contract
[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/6936757.stm]bbc.co.uk[/url]
McLaren launch appeal over points
[url= http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_news_item.php?fes_art_id=32399]pitpass.com[/url]
Pat Symonds looks at the future of F1
[url=http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/61440]autosport.com[/url]
ButtonÔÇÖs time is up, says Mansell
[url=http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/61450]autosport.com[/url]
Fry defends ÔÇÿimpeccableÔÇÖ Button
[url= http://www.rrstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007108070072]rrstar.com[/url]
PackersÔÇÖÔÇÖ DT Jolly moving up
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[url= http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/2007/08/worlds-most-dangerous-roads-part-2.html]dcp.com[/url]
The WorldÔÇÖs Most Dangerous Roads Part 2
[size=3][b]Iron Butt Rally 2007[/b][/size]
[url=http://www.ironbuttrall.com/IBR/2007.cfm]2007 Iron Butt Rally[/url]
The 2007 Iron Butt Rally will take off on Monday, August 20, 2007
from the St. Louis, Missouri area. Once again, it will be a challenge
not only to riding skills but also the riders ability to map a
successful route in order to maximize points and solve the
time/distance equation.
Iron Butt.org:
[url= http://www.ironbutt.com/about/default.cfm]Website[/url]
[url= http://www.ironbutt.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=702&get=last]Forum[/url]
[url= http://www.saddlesore.com/]SaddleSore Website[/url]
Iron Butt Rally in the News:
Morning Reads attempt to give you ways for you to follow the event and fill in some of the background for the unfamiliar.
[size=3][b]Bike Reviews:[/b][/size]
[url=http://www.webbikeworld.com/motorcycles/kawasaki-versys/]webbikeworld.com[/url]
The Kawasaki Versys ÔÇô Living with Versys-tility
[Size=3][b]Feature:[/b][/size]
[url=http://www.bikernet.com/bikebarn/PageViewer.asp?PageID=1663]bikenet.com[/url]
The Notorious Roger Goldammer
[img]http://m1ka.smugmug.com/photos/181810531-L.jpg
Adventure Posts:
Sues Excellent Adventure
2007 Rally chair Sue Rihn-Manke is riding now what she calls "Sue's Excellent Adventure," covering 48 states in two weeks on her GS.
Blog Update
Foreign Language Blogs
Over Heard in New York | Voice of the City
Photography / Video:
dPS.com
Ignore the ÔÇÿActive spaceÔÇÖ Rule for Moving Subjects.
M.R. Traveler
The Sherpa Village gone upscale? Hmmm
gadling.com
Mobile Transformer Hotels
Technology:
engadget.com
Modded Vespa rocks touchscreen, XP and WiFi
gizmag.com
AppleÔÇÖs sleek new all in one iMac in 20 and 24 inch designs
TodayÔÇÖs RoadFood.com
Woot
Todays Woot
The Blog
xkcd A webcomic of Romance, Sarcasm, Math and Language
Bike Candy:
THE END
BMW in the News
If the BMW bicycle was to expensive, what about the skateboard?
gizmag.com
BMW StreetCarver ÔÇô hign speed, high thrill, high cost skateboard
TED: Ideas worth spreading
TED Blog,Conferences, Themes, Talks and Speakers
BMW Press: News and press releases from the official BMW sources
World of BMW News
Peace, Love and Adventure
BMW GroupPress Club:
PressClub Latin America
BMW of Brazil - resulted quarterly
The BMW of Brazil keeps its trajectory of growth in 2007. In as the trimester of the year, they had been you deliver to 534 vehicles the customers, what it the same represented an increase of 16,6% in relation the period of 2006.
Also the segment of motorcycles in Brazil suffered considerable increase in vendas in the mentioned period. They had been in the total 188 units vendidas in as the trimester of 2007, resulting in 74% of increase with regard to the same period of the last year.
In the gathered of the year, until the June month (also), the BMW of Brazil added 1009 units of vehicles and 360 motorcycles you deliver the customers. Both had represented increase, of respectively 11.2% and 63.6% with regard to the same period in 2006.
PressClub USA
BMW AND NASA CONCLUDE TEST PERIOD OF BMW HYDROGEN 7
Eight-Week-Long Test Underscores Companies' Mutual Support of Hydrogen Technologies
Cape Canaveral, FL - August 8, 2007... As NASA engineers prepare to launch the Space Shuttle Endeavour today, BMW of North America and NASA announced the successful completion of an eight-week test period of the BMW Hydrogen 7 - the first-ever hydrogen-powered luxury sedan.
The test period, which was initiated under a Space Act Agreement between NASA and BMW, underscores the organizations' shared commitment to advancing hydrogen technologies and to exploring innovative transportation concepts and alternative energy sources.
"We are very proud to have been able to offer this test period of the BMW Hydrogen 7 to NASA, an organization that truly is on the forefront of discovery and innovation and with whom we share a unique common goal: the use and ongoing research of liquid hydrogen solutions," said Karl-Heinz Ziwica, Vice President of Engineering, BMW of North America.
"It is the high energy density of liquid hydrogen that allows the space shuttle to be accelerated into space. The same concept is used to power the BMW Hydrogen 7. Using hydrogen as a fuel can potentially reduce CO2 emissions by 90 percent. The BMW Hydrogen 7 is tangible proof that hydrogen-drive vehicles are a very viable option for the future of sustainable mobility, and we're pleased that NASA was able to experience it first-hand."
During the test period, NASA personnel had full access to the fleet of BMW Hydrogen 7s, which run on a form of liquid hydrogen similar to what NASA uses in its shuttles. During their time with NASA, the vehicles - which feature a dual combustion engine capable of running on liquid hydrogen or gasoline and shifting seamlessly between the two - were conveniently refueled using the space center's liquid hydrogen fueling supply located on the space center's premises.
The BMW Hydrogen 7
Last year, BMW underscored its commitment to hydrogen-drive technologies with the debut of the BMW Hydrogen 7 - the world's first hydrogen-drive luxury performance automobile - to help stimulate demand for a viable hydrogen infrastructure in the long term. The car comes equipped with an internal combustion engine capable of running on either liquid hydrogen or gasoline and is based on the BMW 760Li. The V12 cylinder engine delivers 260 hp; the top speed of the Hydrogen 7 is 143 mph and acceleration 0-60 mph is 9.2 sec. When driving in hydrogen mode, emissions of the BMW Hydrogen 7 are virtually nothing but water vapor. Since the start of research and development in alternative fuel sources more than 25 years ago, BMW has focused on liquid hydrogen as the appropriate source of energy for the automobile. The car features a high-tech vacuum super-insulated hydrogen tank in which liquid hydrogen can be stored at the extremely low temperature of -423 ?? Fahrenheit (-253 ??Celsius) for a long period of time - the same insulating effect as a 17-meter-thick layer of Styrofoam. One hundred BMW Hydrogen 7s have been built, and 25 are used in test programs in the US. The cars have already covered more than 1.3 million miles in test programs around the globe.
BMW Sauber F1: Website
BMW Motorsport
BMW Yachtsport
BMW Golfsport
BMW Oracle Racing
BMW Sport website
News:
automobilemag.com
WTF is that?
Goofy tricycle thing gives new meaning to the word ÔÇ£hybridÔÇØ
bemidjipioneer.com
Carver creates wooden motorcycle
rapidcityjournal.com
Motorcycle sales slow
thekneeslider.com
Nortley Fartster Caf?® Racer for sale
http://m1ka.smugmug.com/photos/181810556-M.jpg[/mg]
[url= http://www.wheels24.co.za/Wheels24/NewsPics/0,,1369-1375_2160387,00.html]wheels24.co.za[/url]
McLaren ÔÇÿkeenÔÇÖ to ditch Alonso
[url= http://www.f1complete.com/content/view/5697/617/]f1complete.com[/url]
Haug denies Alonso released from contract
[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/formula_one/6936757.stm]bbc.co.uk[/url]
McLaren launch appeal over points
[url= http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_news_item.php?fes_art_id=32399]pitpass.com[/url]
Pat Symonds looks at the future of F1
[url=http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/61440]autosport.com[/url]
ButtonÔÇÖs time is up, says Mansell
[url=http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/61450]autosport.com[/url]
Fry defends ÔÇÿimpeccableÔÇÖ Button
[url= http://www.rrstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007108070072]rrstar.com[/url]
PackersÔÇÖÔÇÖ DT Jolly moving up
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[url= http://damncoolpics.blogspot.com/2007/08/worlds-most-dangerous-roads-part-2.html]dcp.com[/url]
The WorldÔÇÖs Most Dangerous Roads Part 2
[size=3][b]Iron Butt Rally 2007[/b][/size]
[url=http://www.ironbuttrall.com/IBR/2007.cfm]2007 Iron Butt Rally[/url]
The 2007 Iron Butt Rally will take off on Monday, August 20, 2007
from the St. Louis, Missouri area. Once again, it will be a challenge
not only to riding skills but also the riders ability to map a
successful route in order to maximize points and solve the
time/distance equation.
Iron Butt.org:
[url= http://www.ironbutt.com/about/default.cfm]Website[/url]
[url= http://www.ironbutt.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=702&get=last]Forum[/url]
[url= http://www.saddlesore.com/]SaddleSore Website[/url]
Iron Butt Rally in the News:
Morning Reads attempt to give you ways for you to follow the event and fill in some of the background for the unfamiliar.
[size=3][b]Bike Reviews:[/b][/size]
[url=http://www.webbikeworld.com/motorcycles/kawasaki-versys/]webbikeworld.com[/url]
The Kawasaki Versys ÔÇô Living with Versys-tility
[Size=3][b]Feature:[/b][/size]
[url=http://www.bikernet.com/bikebarn/PageViewer.asp?PageID=1663]bikenet.com[/url]
The Notorious Roger Goldammer
[img]http://m1ka.smugmug.com/photos/181810531-L.jpg
Adventure Posts:
Sues Excellent Adventure
2007 Rally chair Sue Rihn-Manke is riding now what she calls "Sue's Excellent Adventure," covering 48 states in two weeks on her GS.
Blog Update
Foreign Language Blogs
Over Heard in New York | Voice of the City
Photography / Video:
dPS.com
Ignore the ÔÇÿActive spaceÔÇÖ Rule for Moving Subjects.
M.R. Traveler
The Sherpa Village gone upscale? Hmmm
gadling.com
Mobile Transformer Hotels
Technology:
engadget.com
Modded Vespa rocks touchscreen, XP and WiFi
gizmag.com
AppleÔÇÖs sleek new all in one iMac in 20 and 24 inch designs
TodayÔÇÖs RoadFood.com
Woot
Todays Woot
The Blog
xkcd A webcomic of Romance, Sarcasm, Math and Language
Bike Candy:
THE END
