Stimulus package: Most workers to see extra $20 a week
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Washington » Sending a kid to college, purchasing a new car, buying a first home or making the one you own more energy efficient. Those are a few of the ways Americans might cut their tax bills under the economic stimulus package Congress is crafting. RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com
First the luxury electric sports car, now the battery-powered motorbike
A Californian company has unveiled the world’s fastest production electric motorbike, the Mission One.Manufactured by San Francisco-based Mission Motors, the bike is capable of 150mph - considerably quicker than the British-designed, pre-production TTX01 bike - and is on sale now to US customers, with deliveries due in 2010.The bike’s history has echoes of Tesla Motors’ Roadster, the luxury electric sports car that was conceived, designed and built in California with funding from clean technology investors including Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.Mission Motors’ founder, Forrest North, is a former Tesla employee who, in 2007, began work on converting a petrol-powered Ducati motorbike into an electric model, with the aspiration of combining the performance of petrol with zero exhaust pipe emissions.”As a motorcycle enthusiast and engineer, I knew I could combine my passion for motorcycles with my passion for innovation and create a motorcycle that truly sets a new standard i News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
