Yeah , you ’re laughing at this uncanny - looking half - orchis - shaped conception car now , but when gasoline costs $ 10 a gallon not too long from now , this 330 mile - per - congius Aptera conception motorcar might set out reckon pretty damn undecomposed . It nail that high - mpg efficiency with a fuel - sipping diesel railway locomotive trounce onto hybrid technology , coupled with its wind - slippery aeromechanics and 850 - pound weight .
Stare at it long enough , and it pop out looking like a gamboge that ’s been cut in one-half . Will it be a lemon tree ? Wait a duad of age to observe out , because the Aptera ’s designer , Accelerated Composites , read the three - wheel fuel miser will strike the road by the end of 2008 at a sticker price of less than $ 20K.
The Race to 100 MPG[Popular Science , viaSci Fi Tech ]
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