I stumbled upon the website of another Tropica owner. He has a lot of info about the car, and two postage-stamp sized videos that aren't bad.

The site: http://nogas.org/zebra/

The videos. . .

http://nogas.org/zebra/movies/NBC-7.sck.iview.avi
http://nogas.org/zebra/movies/NBC-7.reporter.drive.avi

It's a strange feeling to see how much optimism there was for electric cars at that time, in July of 1997.