引用第34楼funder于2009-01-01 15:13发表的 :
大行第一辆折叠车是83年出现的，我还有当时的新闻报道
看你怎么定义第一辆了，量产的第一辆？还是作坊的第一辆？
据官网说，第一辆车产生于1982年。
The Dahon story begins in 1975. At the time, Dr. David Hon, our founder, was a physicist at Hughes Aircraft Corporation, ....... his team developed would later be used on NASA space shuttles, US missile guidance systems, and laser-guided anti-aircraft guns.
Yet despite his success, Dr. Hon eventually found the work at Hughes Aircraft unfulfilling, because his energies were devoted to instruments of war, rather than for the betterment of society. Then,
in 1975 came the oil and gas crisis and the seed for Dahon was sown.One afternoon, in his third week of waiting in hour-long lines to buy gasoline for his car, Dr. Hon was struck by the magnitude of the world's dependence on oil, a non-renewable resource that would likely be depleted within the lifetime of his grandchildren..
Brain-storming for solutions to weaken the world's dependence on oil, Dr. Hon ended up going back to his primary mode of transportation in college - the bicycle. ......
Finally, in 1982, Dr. Hon introduced the first Dahon folding bicycle to worldwide acclaim. At design competitions around the world, the first Dahon folding bicycle proceeded to win award after award. Full of optimism, Dr. Hon visited major bicycle manufacturers around the world, hoping to find a company to either license his design or build the bike for him. But not surprisingly, none of big companies were interested in his revolutionary new idea.
