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Pedal to the fiberglass:
Comic News car has karmic appeal
WHEN PEOPLE see Don Kahle, publisher of the
Comic News, humming around town in his three-wheeled electric automobile, they generally have one of two reactions.
"There are people who see the Gizmo and smile and wave and give a thumbs up," Kahle said. "And then
there are dead people." more
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Somewhere between a Bike and a Buick....
There is the land of the Gizmo™.
The Gizmo is an electric, street-legal, three-wheeled, single passenger vehicle manufactured since 1998 by Neighborhood
Electric Vehicles of Eugene, Oregon. I have driven one for about 2 months and put over 600 miles on it. The following
article is based on real-world experience in Cleveland, Ohio.(continue)
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Ashlander drives conversation piece Bill
Kettler of the Medford, Oregon Mail Tribune December 2000
Electric "car: grabs attention around
town
Ashland, OR - Heads turn when Tonya Granam
drives through town.
"I know if I look up at a traffic light, somebody's going to be
looking at me," she says. "I've heard people talking at intersections,
`what the hells that?'" (continue)
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Gizmo uses a little juice, but no gas
Article from Register-Guard daily newspaper. May 31,
1997, Eugene, Or
. It's
got a perfect name and the right attitude.
After taking the Gizmo -- one of the Eugene Water & Electric
Board's new electric cars -- for a spin Friday morning, General Manager Randy Berggren's first though was; "Hey,
it's a lot of fun." Sure, he can talk about how the utility is looking to protect the environment, promote
ecologically friendly technology -- and save money to boot.
Nah. The Gizmo, those who came to its coming-out party Friday
at EWEB headquarters agreed, is just plain cool. EWEB paid just over $6,000 each for two Gizmos made by the Neighborhood
Electric Vehicle Co.(continue)
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