UI alum hopes to outpace competitors with electric sports car
By Don Dodson
Sunday November 5, 2006
URBANA – Back when Martin Eberhard was restoring parts of a '66 Mustang in his dorm room and taking his girlfriend on a tour of junkyards around Champaign-Urbana, the writing was on the wall.
Today, that girlfriend, Carolyn Howk, is Eberhard's wife, and he's building electric sports cars that can go from 0 to 60 mph in 3.9 seconds.
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