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Business
Highlights from the Las Vegas electronics fair. Plus: Giselle Makarachvili, CEO of Hmlet.
Rapid succession
With its versatile new electric Motorrad scooter, BMW might just have heralded the next big thing in city runarounds.
Are we nearly there yet?
With Porsche's Taycan drawing 20,000 advance orders and the Pininfarina Battista stealing Geneva's spotlight, 2019 is the year electric cars finally shed their worthy, worthy image and become genuinely desirable.
Prickly clients
A garden of succulents near Madrid uses architecture and good design to support its plants, quietly showing them off to their full potential.
Into the blue
Blue can convey honesty, suggest authority and lift our mood, making it a branding favourite. With its popularity soaring, Monocle explores the global search for the perfect, and rarest, new shade of blue.
Road tested
The head of design for BMW Group on the best pens to carry and what gets him revved up in the mornings.
Driving forces
As cities become choked with traffic, new ways of keeping urban centres moving are being explored. Perhaps surprisingly, the car is still key, with the auto industry fighting back through car-sharing and more.
Power trip
Electric cars aren’t new to the motoring scene but they’ve always been practical rather than user-intuitive or well designed – limitations BMW has looked to tackle with its first all-electric model.
Driving test
What rolls off students’ drawing boards today could be at the Frankfurt Motor Show tomorrow. With top design schools from Germany to India, the future of automotive design is picking up speed.
