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...taken its lessons to heart. Witness this spate of funky, bubbly, environmentally friendly concept cars at recent trade shows. Honda's Fuya-jo, which means "all-night entertainment district," boasts a turntable-like steering wheel and mixer-like dashboard. Also shown: the Norwegian Think electric car; Nissan's Hypermini EV, which goes up to 100 miles on a single battery charge; Honda's fuel-cell prototype FCX. What would Herbie...
...Doyle] just wanted a change of atmosphere and a way of life," sophomore Ze'ev Ben-Shachar said. "He was very upset to leave...
...eighth position for the Crimson, hard-hitting sophomore Ze'ev Ben-Shachar took Lord Jeffs' junior Raza Mujtaba to school, 15-8, 15-12, 15-10. Shachar slowly whittled away at Mujtaba's concentration, and by the end of the match, the Amherst player was making a number of unforced errors...
...entrepreneur would attempt: an electric bicycle. "I spent all my life putting minivans and Jeeps in American garages," he says. "I think I have one vision left in me before I die, and it's electric." Fine, but a bicycle in the land of muscle cars? Definitely. Iacocca's EV Global Motors (as in, Electric Vehicle) plans to start distributing the Taiwan-produced E-Bike in February. His sales target for this year is an astonishing 1,000 bikes a week, a goal skeptics say is far too ambitious. "Can Iacocca go from zero to 50,000 in sales...
...Iacocca launched EV Global in late 1996. Now EVG has 10 employees, support from Taiwan's Giant bicycle (which produces the E-Bike) and backing from private Swiss and Italian financiers ("Europe is our next stop," he says). Iacocca has also invested in Energy Conversion Devices, an innovative Detroit batterymaker run by former General Motors chairman Robert Stempel, and in Unique Mobility Inc., which designs some of the world's most advanced electric motors. "We're assembling all the people who want to be part of the electric-vehicle revolution," says Iacocca. "This is how you get it started...