As the automobile companies continue to wrestle with ways to stay in business and build more relevant, energy-efficient cars, new designs for electric cars as well as an electric hybrid are on the drawing table. Ironically, electric cars are not new; they were first used 100 years ago, the preferred vehicle for both women and doctors. The ?cash-for-clunkers? legislation cleared another hurdle Tuesday, winning passage in the U.S. House of Representatives. That moves the proposed plan