Friday, June 6, 2008

Electric/Hybrid Motorbike/Car

Initially only available in California, this vehicle called the Aptera (meaning wingless flight in Greek) is a two and a bit seater electric or hybrid three-wheeled enclosed motorcycle.




A prototype with a parallel hybrid diesel boasted an average of 230 MPG
(1.02 Litres per 100K). But because of emissions restrictions, the
hybrid model will use a small water-cooled EFI gasoline engine with
closed loop oxygen feedback and catalytic converter.

More info at http://www.aptera.com/

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The design is fantastic, buy Aptera just announced that they will only be releasing the all electric version first and will not be producing the hybrid until 2010. I got my deposit back as I was waiting for the hybrid and cannot wait until 2010.