Microvel Technologies was founded in the mid-1990s by Robert Ménard, a businessman described in the press as a "bearded Mormon preacher," and was based in the Jonquière borough of Quebec, Canada. The company developed the MX-4, a basic, stripped-down, non-polluting aluminum mini-car aimed at high-density-population countries in the developing world. Not much bigger than a golf cart, it was powered by an electric/steam-turbine system, had no air conditioning, heating or…
