o â€"ICBUISEE. __ L?m Â¥nolroars l * 1994 ALASKA & ; EUROPE CRUISE E wed., Sept. 22 g :00 p.tMh. > § Nichols® proper title with Ford is Electric Vehicle Strategy and Planning Manager in the Electric Vehicle Program Office, Car Product Development. _ He first met up with her at a conâ€" ference at Toronto‘s Skyline Hotel attended mostly by fleet buyers. He particularly remembers two typicalâ€" ly burly men who had some highly technical questions and turned to him for the answers. _ Alternative fuels research and development is her specialty. Nichols has spoken in Washington, â€" _ When Hartford referred the questions to Nichols, he said he watched her get under the hood and "talk shop" causing the men‘s mouth to literally fall open. "It was just marvelous to watch their mouths drop. She just blew them away," he laughs. "I tell young ladies in my lab courses to get in there and put the hardware together, get their handsâ€" on. Don‘t let the males make data collectors out of them," she advises, adding the best way for her to learn her trade is to rip an engine apart and put it back together again. Get comfortable with the technology, don‘t just try to study it. + â€" Ford of Canada spokesman Jim Hartford recalled that he and Nichols joined Ford at approxiâ€" mately the same time. "If you talk shop, engineering, cars, the fact that you‘re a girl or a boy doesn‘t seem to enter into it," she said. CONTACT: Nichols spent eight years as chair of the board of directors with the National Drag Boat Association and said while she may have been the odd woman out, her peers gave her much respect. Her secrets to operating so well in traditionally male circles? HEALING THE LOSS OF A LOVED ONE (How to nurture the grieving inner child) with CLARK REED She readily admits to having held the world record in quarter mile water speed in her younger days. Now she races antique cars. Her current race car is a $400,000 1954 Mercedes Benz 200 SL Gullwing. Nichols said she gave up drag boat racing in 1972. "I saw too many of my friends killed in boats." Nichols has two children â€" a boy and a girl. Her daughter is a midwife, but gives her own car a tuneâ€"up. Her son works with her husband in a technical capacity. Upon her graduation, she joined Ford Motor Company where she remains, at the company‘s Dearborn, Michigan headquarters. When she secured her job, her husâ€" band took early retirement from Rockwell where he had been a design engineer for 25 years and moved with her from L.A. to Michigan. He began his own ousiâ€" ness making parts for old cars. "CRUISE NGHT Nichols still races classic cars § program O Am tllllllt’llllll_\‘I..r’,’,’l".-.:./IItII z7 e Alternative fuels can be used for different applications The Centre for Bereavement and Loss Sept PLACE: (@ Holland America Line Cruise Holidays 635 Fourth Line R.S.V.P Gisele 338â€"2077 (Continued from page 8) Featuring Monday evenings 7 to 10 p.m. Starting Sept. 20/93 Oaklands Regional Centre Library 53 Bond Street, Oakville 925â€"2952 for registration and information )Q D.C. to the Environmental Protection Agency and is the auto industry‘s _ alternative fuels spokesperson. The cost of installing natural gas refueling stations is another drawback so Nichols said she had difficulty imagine enough natural ©1993 Compaq Computer Corporation. All rights reserved. COMPQ registered U.S. Pate wwmmmammymmw&ue‘ in certain geograpt c locations. Certain re prove beneficial if the fleet operaâ€" tor drives enough miles over the life of the vehicle, said Nichols. 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