Electric car - a curious story and lousy end.
As actice environmentalist I reacted on an advertise for design of a new electric car in 1981. Among 47 applicants from europe I was choosen - first strange thing.

It was not a carproducer - it was a wild danish investor. Together with 1 coordinator, 1 technician, and 1 worker we got wages, an empty "secret" factory hall, 1 million kr. and 1 year to launch 1 prototype, ready for production.

An empty building in countryside in central Jutland.
We had to buy all tools and materials
Best italien compiditor testet in Turino
Imagining the smallest 3-wheeler with a Citroën CX windscreen
From 1:1 drawing body is builded with wood strips on shaped sections

20 mm PUR foam pieces is hotmelted on and carefully grinded and trimmed
Finishing with two-component filler to close the surface

 
A 5-10 mm filler on one side up to final measure (-8 mm) is visual ajusted and grinded up "shining"

 
The "perfect" side is copied for each 5 cm section by foam shape moved to opposite side, where filler strips on the body under the foam shape marks correct bodyshape guidelines for filling up.
450 kg 2-componet used
The steel chassis was mounted with the developed electric system and batteries - without body
Many mechanical and driving tests.
100 km/h obtai-ned. 3-weeler was stable, but estimated too fancy for market