Actions speak louder than words. Under Steve and Chris, Aptera made 8-10 prototypes and gained 40 million in funding. Under Paul Wilbur, Aptera burned through 40 million and built ONE production intent vehicle, built a foam representation of a four wheeled "Camry-like" vehicle, and lost at the X-prize. Seems pretty clear to me.

As much as Paul Wilbur would like everyone to believe that the original design somehow was to blame for this, he's wrong. This is just him trying to spin his failure. He's a liar. And he's lying in this statement. There was no Conditional Commitment Letter. Here is the article: http://gigaom.com/cleantech/aptera-did-not-receive-a-doe-150m-conditional-loan-commitment/
Aptera's failure is completely because of Paul Wilbur and his cronies and not because the design was flawed in some way.

What's so odd about 3 wheels? No one freaks out about 2 wheels, a motorcycle, but you add an extra wheel and you're impractical... It's very similar to the thinking of people who don't understand electric. It doesn't go vroom-vroom so it can't be a car.

I'd go with the Dodge Ogre. If limited to the choices above - Duster. It just doesn't look Dart-ish. Caliber and Camber are just lame. I went with Ogre because of it's brutish ugliness but what's in a name?

It's sad that Fisker and Tesla are becoming the poster children for attacks on the current administration. We need their technology and the loans were miniscule compared to those given to GM, Nissan, and Ford. There's lots of misinformation flying around. Lets hope Fisker pulls off the Nina and I'm pretty confident Tesla will be able to kill with the Model S.

The more I think about the Karma the more I'm willing to forgive its shortcomings. If you think about it as a $100K supercar that gets 30 miles electric driving then it makes sense. Because 20 MPG for a Ferrari or Lambo would sound reasonable. I'll be much more critical of the Nina's numbers. It needs to tie or beat the Volts numbers.

You're assumptions about this vehicle are erroneous. Do more research before you make such judgements.

The reality is that the current management created only ONE prototype while burning through 30 MILLION dolars. The founders successfully created 9 prototypes and was going to give out the first vehicle to a customer by January 2009. The current management put a stop to that to make the vehicle more accessable to the general public. 30 MILLION dollars and they couldn't produce even one vehicle for a customer. I think it clearly shows that management's incompetence.