Aptera: Car of the Near Future

Wired.com takes a ride in a futuristic electric 2 seater, the Aptera.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Aptera
• Wired
• Technology
• electric car
• futuristic

[vincentcle]

great but the car looks like a sperm cell

[eed1ot]

Solar&hydropower are developing quite nicely.

[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.

[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

[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??

[TTexas2]

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

[Drewpleblanc]

90 mph

[m31119]

90 mph. I think its electronically limited at that speed