what will be the future bike

We're in and ready to go.
It looks like a vehicle(车辆) out of the Jetsons cross with the Flintstones.

It's very comfortable. I, I, er, tell people it's like riding in your long chair.

Running smoothly¹ like a mini-electric car fueled by pedal（踏板） power.

I pedal most of the time. The motor is er, really helpful for getting it started in, through intersection², or from a dead stop, and up hills.

It's a common tricycle in a fiber³ glass frame with a battery.

It's actually er, 48 volt⁴ battery, very large battery.

Gordon Miller⁵ commutes⁶ in the only velomobile in Iowa from Urbandale to the state capital. 21 miles round trip.

A variety of reactions like get people honking⁷, get a lot of thumbs（大拇指） up.

It can travel up to 30 miles per hour if he pedals fast.

When you use the electric motorbike itself, anybody can climb in and make it go.

Anyone?

And then your throttle（油门） is here and I'm going to put the lid down for you.

You use joy sticks to steer⁸ and handbrakes to stop.

Miller says he's saving hundreds of dollars a month in gasoline cost since it only costs about 3 cents a day to operate.

Plus it's really good exercise. I've lost about 10 pounds since I start using it.

Miller has his Sunrider shipped over from Holland and loves it so much he's now working with a Dutch Company Air Rider who makes them to try to produce velomobiles here in the US.

It would be a perfect fit with Iowa, we're in the center of the US. We can produce some, we can employ people, we can ship them out, er, and they are just remarkable⁹ vehicles I think.
With lights for nights, turns signals and the trunk in front, Miller hopes more Americans will travel in this human power green machines down the road. Cynthia Fodor, KCCI. News Channel A, I was news leader.（本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑）

1 smoothly   

adv.平滑地，顺利地，流利地，流畅地

参考例句：

• The workmen are very cooperative,so the work goes on smoothly.工人们十分合作，所以工作进展顺利。
• Just change one or two words and the sentence will read smoothly.这句话只要动一两个字就顺了。

2 intersection   

n.交集，十字路口，交叉点；[计算机] 交集

参考例句：

• There is a stop sign at an intersection.在交叉路口处有停车标志。
• Bridges are used to avoid the intersection of a railway and a highway.桥用来避免铁路和公路直接交叉。

3 fiber   

n.纤维，纤维质

参考例句：

• The basic structural unit of yarn is the fiber.纤维是纱的基本结构单元。
• The material must be free of fiber clumps.这种材料必须无纤维块。

4 volt   

n.伏特，伏

参考例句：

• You may use 100 and 110 volt appliances in your room.您可以在房间使用100及110伏特的电器。
• The common service voltage of electric power in our country is 220/380 volt.我国普通供电电压为220/380伏。

5 miller   

n.磨坊主

参考例句：

• Every miller draws water to his own mill.磨坊主都往自己磨里注水。
• The skilful miller killed millions of lions with his ski.技术娴熟的磨坊主用雪橇杀死了上百万头狮子。

6 commutes   

上下班路程( commute的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• She commutes from Oxford to London every day. 她每天上下班往返于牛津与伦敦之间。
• Barbara lives in Oxford and commutes. 芭芭拉住在牛津，通勤往来。

7 honking   

v.（使）发出雁叫似的声音，鸣（喇叭），按（喇叭）( honk的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Cars zoomed helter-skelter, honking belligerently. 大街上来往车辆穿梭不停，喇叭声刺耳。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Flocks of honking geese flew past. 雁群嗷嗷地飞过。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

8 steer   

vt.驾驶，为…操舵；引导；vi.驾驶

参考例句：

• If you push the car, I'll steer it.如果你来推车，我就来驾车。
• It's no use trying to steer the boy into a course of action that suits you.想说服这孩子按你的方式行事是徒劳的。

9 remarkable   

adj.显著的，异常的，非凡的，值得注意的

参考例句：

• She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
• These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。