If the testing proves successful, the other 4,000 kits will be tested later, city officials said.
If market testing proves successful, the beverage, developed in a joint venture with PepsiCo, could be rolled out in the summer of 1996, Chairman Howard Schultz said at an investment conference Tuesday.
After market tests proved successful in this era of cost-consciousness, Wal-Mart is expanding its prepaid cellphone program, Straight Talk.
But Mr. Reuter, the New York City Transit president, said that the agency has begun testing the low-sulfur fuel and if the tests proved successful, the city would begin trying to persuade fuel companies to produce and sell it, for use in both the hybrids and the city's regular diesel buses.
Flight tests proved successful and the night attack capability was validated.
Initial tests proved successful, and at the 2000 San Marino Grand Prix the final report was released which concluded that the HANS should be recommended for use.
That limited test proved successful, and this now appears to be a step that can be replicated in future years.
If the test proves successful, London's bus fleet could switch to hydrogen sometime in the next decade.
But if further tests prove successful, the next step should be developing the active agent as a licensed drug to be tested in clinical patient trials.
Five of the scooters are in use now on an experimental basis and, if the test proves successful, 165 will be ordered to cover the whole city.
If those tests prove successful, the first device could be similar to handheld devices now being used in Iraq for sensing explosives.
