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A San-Diego engineering company is planning to build and sell a revolutionary hybrid car that will achieve 330mpg.
Accelerated Composites has designed a two-seat passenger car that it says will achieve up to 330mpg and sell for under $20,000. The lightweight composite, hybrid car will post this fuel efficiency in normal city and highway driving and have acceleration and handling similar to that of a Honda Insight.
Called the Aptera, its optimised aerodynamics will give it an aerodynamic drag factor that will be lower than any mass-produced car in the world.
"It looks like nothing you've ever seen because it performs like nothing you've ever seen," says Accelerated Composites founder and CEO Steve Fambro. "What we've done is changed the way cars are thought of and designed. Rather than designing to a styling aesthetic, like the big auto makers do, we hew to an efficiency and safety aesthetic. When you do that, maths and physics mostly dictate the shape of the car; in this case, maths and physics look awesome."
Weight is another important factor, as the Aptera is made from lightweight composites, making it one of the lightest cars on the road. Safety is not overlooked, however: the construction is based on the driver-protection "crash box" found in Formula One race cars.
"We're very serious about this. We're going to produce and sell these cars," says Fambro. "We've got a perfectly timed, market-busting product. We have a great team of world class engineers and designers, high-powered marketing and sales experience, and a solid business plan".
