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Aptera: Hovercraft-Chic

Filed under: Gadgets, Luxury Travel & Hotels, Luxury Cars & Autos, Wings

Aptera motors is gearing up to bring you the hovercraft you've always wanted. It's amazing, no? The way the wheels are positioned (using the same sophisticated technology that once brought you the tricycle), it appears to just glide down the road--or rather, above the road. Fascinating!

The best thing about the hovercraft (sorry, the Aptera) is its efficiency. This vehicle, though its appearance may be somewhat smoke, mirrors, and Back to the Future, gets 230 miles per gallon. That's pretty darn good, and you don't have to run it on trash or even power from the clocktower when struck by lightning.

The hybrid Aptera will begin production in 2009 and cost about $30,000. That's just around 8,500 gallons of gas!

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Tags: aptera, automobiles, back to the future, BackToTheFuture, cars, hovercraft, motors

$10 Million For A Fuel-Efficient Ride

by Laura Malesich (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Cars & Autos, Green

The X Prize Foundation is looking to reward the team that can produce the most production ready vehicle that gets one-hundred miles to the gallon a smashing prize -- $10 million! Last week at the New York Auto Show, the contest was announced and has spurred sixty teams from nine different countries to get their engines running. Applicants will continue to be accepting through mid-2008 and the chosen ones will test their new designs on the road in 2009 and 2010. Whether they are university students or well-known auto makers like Tesla and Aptera Motors, one thing is for sure -- innovation and huge prize purses will bring us a greener future on the road.

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Tags: Aptera, Progressive-Automotive-XPrize, Tesla, X Prize Foundation, XPrizeFoundation