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Aperta Hybrid Car

Aperta Hybrid Car

By Guy Brighton on January 19, 2006

The Aperta Hybrid Car is a concept of a near future car that achieves 330 miles per gallon.  It is a 2-seat, 3-wheel serial (bio)diesel
hybrid called the Aptera. The Aptera weighs 850 lbs and is made almost entirely of lightweight
composites (based on Accelerated Composites’ Panelized Automated
Composite Construction process). It accelerates from 0–60 mpg in 11 seconds and gets to a top speed of 95 mph. Treehugger wonders if the safety issue will scare people off:

The real problem is: Even if we can make very efficient vehicles with
radical new designs, how do we get them on the road? How do we make the
transition from our current breed of heavy metal machines to small
aerodynamic composite-materials hybrids (and fuel cells) without having
both types share the pavement?

Car Spec Sheet (pdf)
Treehugger Article
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