Less than two year after the release of "Who Killed The Electric Car?", a film that marked a low point in our progress toward automobiles which run on alternative fuels, electric cars have improbably become all the rage once again.Due out near the end of this year is the concept car-looking Aptera. The brainchild of founder Steve Fambro, the car is five years in the making, and apparently worth every hour of those five years.
The Aptera is a three-wheel, two-seat marvel of engineering that, in an initial test run, got over 230 miles to the gallon! The car is also built for safety, exceeding industry standards in rollover and crash tests. It's not exactly the fleetest of cars (top speed of 85mph) nor the peppiest (0-60 in 10 sec), but then, you're not buying the auto to set land speed records, are you?
Aptera is available in two models: a plug-in electric hybrid model ($29, 900) and an all-electric model ($26, 900). Individuals and organizations can reserve an Aptera today for $500 at the website. Our Civic Hybrid lease is up the end of 2010 and if the Aptera is available for lease by then we're pretty sure we're going to spring for one.
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