Aptera: Car of the Near Future

[xTheDeathSaintx]

so at full speed on the highway...ull last 1 hour....

i cant see this car being anywhere beyond the city.main question is how much juice it eats and how much for a full charge.if this is the future. then i think ill just stay back here in the past

[kursat96]

i think they should add some solar panels so it would recharge a little bit when its on the road. would be usefull for sunny countries.

[billyburners]

Did one ever think how insane this vehicle is to operate?

Lets see,I have my touch screen ,internet,voice mail and music..

I don't know where I'm going,as I'm montoring the digital displays..

I wonder who's actually driving the car,with all these other distractions going on??

[Anglichanen]

a few problems i can see. If it has a blow out on one of the front wheels at high speed it will flip over. limited range of up to 50 miles and 50 miles return max is nothing. it will be hard to judge the width of the car from inside. You naturally go inline with the body to judge width. I can see someone wacking the front wheels into other cars or curbs often which will fuck up the nice wheel covers and tracking. Would like an independent crash test on this by NCAP. an SUV bumper hit windscreen

[nnorrellim]

maybe the camera guy could make it more jittery. I wonder if its a smooth ride at all.

[MightyBobzilla]

any 1 else realise tht the 1 fact thts always a problem with battery powered electric cars???

how bloody long is tht going 2 take 2 recharge?!?!

i thought they had finally started mass producing hydrogen electric cars, isnt this a step backwards??

[ernestryles]

hydrogen cars are rare, and not mass produced. this takes 8 hrs to recharge which is a long time, but aptera is working on a 300 mpg hybrid

[ferarry13]

whats the top speed?

(no sound ...)

[m31119]

90 mph. I think its electronically limited at that speed

[Drewpleblanc]

90 mph

[doctaword]

I like the planned route but I'm not sure how those rear tired will hold out

[iurhviusdfavhi]

so If it's considered a motorcycle, then insurance is not "required" making it even cheaper. Maybe not true in all states, but in Florida motorcycle insurance is optional if i remember correctly.

[Patricio4u]

although I drive one, I'm never going to buy another car that runs on gas again!!!

maby we have a chance with Obama to change this forever. God knows Jimmy Carter Tried way back when the oil companies bent us over the first time. in the 1970's. There going to try it again this summer. you'l see, it's already starting here in Tennessee $2.25 a gal.

[shawkobezhu]

electric is the way to go

fuck the oil companies

[McConsumer]

that range meter shouldn't show a perfect circle. It should take into account lots of other thingss as well....but still pretty cool, for other people to drive.

[jrsingh93]

it looks really bumpy

[kema702]

hahah yea the streats their suck hahaha

[NatureLegalized]

this Aptera can look so freakin cool too & just think, if petro doesn't run it, and if Progressive Insurance picks for the X PRIZE Winner anything like this not running on gas, I won't cancel my policy with them! Horay!, it could be a Win-Win-Win!!!!! lol

Needless to say, I'm waiting to buy the next generation of electric vehicle, so long as I can get one in the lower affordable price range.

[carysuu]

freaking ugly....

[SailinganFD]

Each to his own, but darn it looks cool.

[ineedaletter1]

Congratulations, you have made a car that lets you feel good about saving the environment while looking like sperm.

[nicoispro71]

LOL

but seriously its cool just needs to look cooler

[JamieDeSmet1]

:O Cool

[Amtoj]

they said they will range from 25,000 to 30,000 dollars I believe, quite affordable

[ethoswithme]

the only difference is a GPS and electric motor

[ajloder10]

If this car is made affordable and easily available (lots of dealers), it could revolutionize the way people travel. It's fast enough and it's got a great range. Not to mention, the hybrid version is awesome too!

[5botball]

I think the UI of the touch screen should be made more finger friendly

[seanwagner]

yeah haha, You see how small that txt was.

[desertblbuesman]

the most beautiful functional car on the road efficiency wise, which to my eyes blows all others away. I can not wait to see it.

[MAXMEDIATV]

GREAT CONCEPT, WHACK BODY STYLE

[saxonwhittle]

†††††††††† It's the baby Jesus! ††††††††††††

[sk8grommet]

kinda looks like youd die in a fender bender and isn't this just kind of a cliche of what the future was sposed to look like 20 years ago

[playgrrrr]

doesnt look like it has the capability to transport anything worth mentioning at all. which leeds to the conclusion of: waste of time / not useful at all. great invention yes.

[BinkieMcFartnuggets]

It also doubles as a dust buster for the road.

[alexriveratr]

I want a flying car!

[Zonglars]

While i'd love the idea of an electric car that can do close to highway speeds (i can't remember what that is in mph),

i will point out that it doesn't seem to have much for a trunk.

[hobbesjobs]

Hmm...you can't exactly avoid looking like a douche in that thing, can you?

[desertblbuesman]

in this case, it is form following function, unlike most of what is on the road which is nothing more that a slow crawling transformation from the days of the boxy horse carriage, so designed for ease of the woodworking tech of the day. Efficiency not a concern. Just the an attempt at recreating the our childhood images of what is COOL. MOVEMENT! This car worked from the other side, the slipperiest shape that could be fitted to wheels. Most of what is out there is so OLD it is a joke.

[akabersi]

Looks totally unsafe. I'd like to see crash test results.

[garst1983]

I have a chicken vs. egg sort of question. Was the car designed to resemble predictions from movies or did Hollywood actually based their cars on scientific research?

[santitos2001]

At least this guys are trying to bring some innovation to the automobile industry, what are Chrysler and GM doing? asking for bailout money 'cause their crappy cars don't sell

[homertalk]

Hopefully they will never Unionize, which is what killed Government Motors

[grendal0072]

Most of the commenters should do even a little research before they make a comment. Hydrogen is not effecient and will not the future. The only reason many of you believe that Hydrogen is the future is due to advertising. You have to use electricity or some other form of energy to get the hydrogen into a form that a car can use and even then it is not very efficient. This car is not competing against the Tesla (which is a cool car but very expensive) - this car is efficient.

[cyklonb1989]

no one is going to buy this shit

[webbly]

THE CAR LOOKS LIKE A PIECE OF SHIT THO

[burqawitz]

the problem with hydrogen is it takes alot of energy to make hydrogen fuel so its not cost effective. there is alot of work to be done on the technology. also i dont see whats wrong with the design of this car. i mean its ugly but it works well

[foodaggression]

doesn't stand a change against the tesla roadster.

why change the entire design of the car if you just can take a common sports car from lotus and put in on batteries? noone is going to buy this sperm cell.

[czechwindboy]

I'd much rather drive the M3 in the background. Or was it M5?

Battery cars? Just a fad. Wait for H2 power.

[vincentcle]

great but the car looks like a sperm cell

[psychodelicdragon]

i'll take one!!

[kelseyleannemusic]

looks bumpy - but cool design and thought!

[DarthLamchop2]

Reall y cool.

[tajikistanian]

sure looks spacy, but what about crash safety? if a cadillac hits me in that then im pretty sure im not getting out or up.

[siedpe13]

i hear that its licensed as a motorcycle due to its size, so i guess you could say its safer than a motorcycle

[BeondaPale]

Looks a little like the cars in the movie "Minority Report" (pretty good movie, despite Tom Cruise) Only those cars were pretty cool, driverless and could drive sideways up buildings, to merge seamlessly with your apartment.

lol

[BeondaPale]

The noise and the way the camera can't keep still tells me that the suspension system is crap

[yourname240]

the body is absolutely ridiculous, REDESIGN!!!!

[gottalovenintendo]

wat a pile of crap it looks like somthing from the future in an 80's movie.. Ohh and what magic is this inside??? why sat-nav you say?? what is this strange space age trickery from the future.

[danierusama]

the shape is very aerodynamic, but i think that kind of shapes has been seen in prototype vehicles since late 60's, so i think that's why most people wouldn't want it ,lol.

but it is a great vehicle for one or two people that just want to move from places to places or going to the office and back home.

[1walicki]

I like it .. I want it to fly someday!

And put some solar panels on it too! :D

[TTexas2]

it has solar panels... to run the air/heat conditionoing system full time , even when parked...no more overheated interiors.

[ojmardueno]

Why do alternative energy cars have to look so weird?

They look useless, no cargo, no utility of any kind.

If you really want to change us to an alternative energy, we need to create vehicles that people would want to drive.

Or better yet, if you could, at least double the mpg that we get from our current car engines, it would help us a lot.

We need big trucks to move merchandise. It'd be great, if we could get 2 or 3 times the mpg we get now.

[RadicalUsername]

true, all of the electric cars iv'e seen so far have bad designs. the manufacturers don't seem to realize that the car has to be of more use then just to drive around in it. and in this particular case the designers must have been on drugs. the only good design iv'e seen is the tesla roadster, but its as useful as any other sports car, pretty stupid way of starting this.

[tarlachmgc]

they are wasting time with electric cars, hydrogen power is much better

[lincolnhasapikachu]

agreed they would people would save soo much more money and its wayyy more convenient

[tobyw87]

Wrong, hydrogen is an inefficient unnecessary secondary fuel source. It takes much more energy to create hydrogen then it does to create power and send it to the grid where people can access it. Hydrogen is also a lot more unstable than batteries. Hydrogen "power" is electric power except the energy is converted to power an electric motor right in the car itself. There really isn't a difference in terms of the mechanics of the car other than reduced efficiency when utilizing hydrogen.

[lincolnhasapikachu]

more efficient in the long run, with better technology i know now its pretty much just out of reach because it is very hard to get hydrogen by itself. i think that eventually it will but i still dont like electric cars just because the battery life isnt what you expect or what people tell you.

[lincolnhasapikachu]

but i do agree about how electric power, they both produce electric power, i just dont like the idea of battery powered...

[tobyw87]

You really don't understand hydrogen technology if you believe that. Hydrogen fuel cells utilize battery technology and produce just as much waste as electric cars. The only difference is hydrogen is vastly more inefficient. A lot of energy gets wasted making the hydrogen and combusting it (or whatever process that you do to extract the energy). Hydrogen is just another pointless secondary energy carrier. Why not get the electricity directly from the place that is making it?

[tobyw87]

How are you planning on making enough hydrogen to power the hundreds of millions of cars that are in the United States. The answer is invariably from power plants. We need to get power plants running that produce low CO2 emissions, and we will be a lot better off.

[eed1ot]

Solar&hydropower are developing quite nicely.

[vandal9202]

Nifty.

[yousefamar]

So it's powered on electricity?

[tobyw87]

Its powered on the blood of babies.

[yousefamar]

That's a terrible thought.

[fucksatanism]

sounds bumpy