Saturday, February 14, 2009

SPACE AGE, BUT STREET LEGAL



Exclusive: Aptera 2e
An exclusive drive of an aerodynamically slick electric vehicle that looks to change the world, three wheels at a time.

I'm accelerating and cornering — hard — on three wheels, little wisps of tire smoke curling out of the slender front wheel pants as steering is cranked in and "throttle" applied. And no, I'm not in an early Volkswagen GTI that hikes up its inside rear tire. Rather, I've been given a drive in the Aptera 2e, a soon-to-be-produced electric vehicle whose shape is slipperier than a Teflon-coated salmon on glare ice, and whose composite construction offers both light weight and impressive structural integrity

READ MORE, http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/autos_content_landing_pages/857/exclusive-aptera-2e

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