Stability with 3 wheelers is not a problem. There are several blistering 3 wheelers out there with admirable performance characteristics on the skid pad. All you armchair physicists need to spout less and read more.

Crash Test? I like riding motorcycles compared to which this is a very safe vehicle. At 300 mpg’s, heck, even at 120 it’s beautiful. I have read everything out there on this vehicle and I want one yesterday. Creature comforts, performance,safety, and economy that literally has me paying less to own one each month than my current gas costs alone. Imagine what that will mean next year when gas is $5/gal?
Fred

Hey all, I’m a dude on the Internet. I’m much smarterer then all of you. Oh I like to argue. And eat Cheetos.

Anyway, if you use Google like someone who is smarterer might, you’ll find out the car has not been physically crash tested in the real world yet. Its going through simulation testing to tweak, then they’ll be doing real world crash testing.

You may now un-bunch your panties.

I want to see one of these things with yellow and black marks on the sides and a test dummy, hitting a block in an offset frontal crash MINIMUM.

I STILL have yet to hear someone address my question of whether this vehicle was subjected to independent crash safety testing.
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Oh, and paint me as some dinosaur or closed-minded pseudo-intellect, that’s fine but what I’ve been reading is a bunch of dreck.
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Regarding “rolling resistance” or whatever the term was, When a 3-wheeler has to compromise for not having a 4th wheel by widening the third, GUESS WHAT… that just defeated the purpose of having only 3 wheels because of having less resistance.
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NOT having a wide tire on the back NO MATTER WHAT the center of gravity, OR other spiffy features are included in the design… DOES mean the back will HAPPILY SLIDE all over the place when compared to a 4-wheeler. LEMME CLUE YOU IN: the AVERAGE driver DOSEN’T like having the rear of their vehicle sliding. – When the ground is dry, I guess one of these things would be okay but when it rains? That’s a whole different story and it is being IGNORED because the hype in here is about as dense as Depleted Uranium.

“While a design like this dosen’t even seem compatible with having 2 wheels in the rear… c’mon. Will one of these eggheads just do all of us 4-roller addicts an apparently HUGE favor and just add one more damn wheel???????????”

Nope. If you add that 4th wheel you buy in to all the legislation written by congressmen who were convinced that lawyers should design cars. The Aptera is classified as a motorcycle, not a car. That means that a startup with some venture capital can hope to get into the game. An ordinary new model automobile costs several billion dollars to develop thanks to all the legislation. That effectively freezes competition out except for the big three and their Japanese clones.

It is that same type of rational that will leave those kinds of minds standing with their mouths open when things do change and they will. The way things look it may be happening a lot faster than many have thought. Back in the early 70’s after the first “Cracker Box” Honda was sold, it wasn’t but a couple years before many other manufactures jumped on board and look how many there are now. I am betting history is about to repeat it’s self.

Nobody is implying, that trikes will replace automobiles but there is a need to do something. Make up all the excuses you want but this is a great start.

Speaking of growing, you may be surprised to learn, in the case of the Dutch built Carver, they are already being sold at dealerships in Belgium & Luxemburg, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Carver Japan will be setting up the sales and service network for Japan, South Korea and Taiwan when first deliveries to customers start early next year.

The Carver One has received full EU type approval and is therefore road legal in all countries accepting the EU type approval certificate. In Europe, a regular car driver’s licence is required. For tax purposes, however, the Carver One is registered as a motorcycle in most European countries. At this time Carver has started an in-depth analysis of the requirements to make the vehicle ideally suited to the North American market.

I think that Aptera should seriously look into silicon nanowire technology for baqtteries; in the tests that they have done on batteries with silicon nanowires, the batteries had a tenfold increase in life. Imagine a 1200 mile life for the battery instead of 120.

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