Plaid Summer Tour
Thursday, July 31, 2008

Aptera and Plaid: which is cooler?



Today we got the opportunity to visit Aptera. Haven't heard of them? You will. Imagine a vehicle that rides entirely on electricity and runs for 120 miles on one charge. Or mostly on electricity, and a little fuel - getting around 300mpg. Now imagine that this same vehicle looked HOT. You've just imagined the Aptera. The Aptera comes in your choice of either all electric, or hybrid. Gullwing doors. Zero gas. Top speed exceeds 85 mph. Design like nothing you've ever seen on the road before. Ever.

Want one? We do too. You can pre-book them now, and get the first ones off the line in November. For now, they're only shipping to California (yet ANOTHER reason to put a Plaid office on the west coast.)

Aptera welcomed Plaid with a tour of their facility, showed us their earliest prototypes, the "fishbowl" (where the brainiac stuff happens), and we even got a ride in the Typ-1 vehicle. Yeah. For real. AMAZING. Check out the photos on our tour's Flickr page, and look for some sweet footage in tomorrow's wrapup video. Thanks Reed!

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