"This bike looks fast when it's sitting still, " crooned a reviewer from Cycle World magazine.

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The salesman said that the bike would run for twenty to thirty miles, depending on how fast I went, before I would need to plug its cord into the wall for eight hours or lug the batteries inside to charge.

NEWYORKER: Green Giant

Fast-forward to the recent past and every green blog worth its solar-powered servers was celebrating the bike-sharing program in Paris.

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