Three-wheel
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One of the early electric-car hopefuls, Aptera, is back a decade later with a reconstituted version of its car and the team behind it.
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Elio to sell $100 million in stock; 3-wheeler price raised, production delayed, again (updated)
Entrepreneur Paul Elio's concept for a simple three-wheeled car that would cost only $6,800 has now been with us for eight years. During that time, he has shown the car hundreds of times to diverse groups of people, taken tens of thousands of reservations, sold stock in the company, and suggested...
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Production for Elio 3-wheeler slides to 2018; is time running out?
Elio Motors continues to drag its feet regarding the start of production for its three-wheeled, two-seat, "84-mpg" vehicle, but it may now be running out of time. The company previously said it had received 55,000 reservations for the car, representing potential sales of $300 million. Last year, it...
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Will 3-wheeled so-called 'autocycles' break out this year? We're skeptical
Several manufacturers are trying to launch new 3-wheeled vehicles, but will they succeed?
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You know cars, trucks, and motorcycles, but what's an autocycle? (It's an Elio)
To say three-wheeled vehicles are rare in the North American car market would be an understatement. Traditionally, motorcycles have two wheels, and passenger cars and light trucks have four. But Elio Motors wants to change that with its three-wheeled car, which it says will be offered for $7,300...
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Electra Meccanica Solo three-wheeled electric car unveiled
The Electra Meccanica Solo is a single-seat, three-wheeled electric car from a new Canadian company.
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Increasingly sophisticated computer modeling software has cut the number of prototypes and test cars that carmakers build. But they must still make dozens of vehicles that will never be sold, to test assembly, evaluate features, conduct durability tests, and wreck them to assess crash-safety ratings. Those vehicles, destined to be crushed at the ends of their hard lives, generally don't rate press releases. DON'T MISS: The Challenges Elio Faces For Its 3-Wheel, '84-MPG', $6,800 Car (Apr 2015) So we were bemused to get a slightly breathless announcement yesterday from startup Elio Motors...
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Morgan EV3 electric three-wheeler: eccentric British maker's official video
Morgan unveiled its production EV3 electric three-wheeler at the 2016 Geneva Motor Show.
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Elio Motors Raises $22 Million From Small Investors, Still Needs $130 Million More
As one website put it--in a piece tagged to lure Tesla Motors fans--Elio Motors is "the other automotive startup" to which those fans should presumably pay attention. But even Tesla CEO Elon Musk hasn't proposed "crowdsourcing" his product-development funds. Given that Elio now seems to have raised...
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Second All-Electric Morgan Concept Is Three-Wheeler Headed For Production
Morgan gives its 3 Wheeler an electric powertrain.
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Elio Motors Offers Shares To Public In 'Crowdfunding' Investment Quest
When Paul Elio said in April that his startup carmaker, Elio Motors, was pursuing crowdsourced funding, most journalists likely imagined sites like Kickstarter or GoFundMe. In fact, the investment opportunity is slightly more formal than that. Elio needs to raise roughly $230 million to start...
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The Challenges Paul Elio Faces To Launch A Three-Wheel, 84-MPG, $6,800 Car
Startup Elio Motors, which needs $230 million to begin production of its radical lightweight, two-seat, three-wheeled fuel-efficient vehicle, is still about $165 million short. CEO Paul Elio, speaking at last week's New York Auto Show, said it has taken more than 41,000 deposits from eager...
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Startup automaker Elio Motors put on its first-ever car-show press conference last week, taking the last slot on Thursday's media schedule at the New York Auto Show. Founder and CEO Paul Elio appeared at a simple podium in front of a bright-orange prototype Elio three-wheeled vehicle. He spoke briefly, then answered questions from the press. DON'T MISS: Elio 84-MPG Three-Wheel Prototype: Driven In Parking Lot: Video (Jun 2014) There was none of the dramatic music, special lighting effects, and other showmanship used by the major manufacturers. Elio's small booth was somewhat obscured by the...
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A Brief History Of Three-Wheeled Cars
What do the Elio, Aptera, Toyota i-Road concept and the spectacularly awful Zap Xebra have in common? They--and many more small-volume economical vehicles and concepts besides--all use one fewer wheel than the norm. Yet giving fuel-saving cars just three wheels is not a new phenomenon, stretching...
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Polaris Slingshot: Is A 173-HP, $20K '3-Wheeled Motorcycle' A Car?
Three wheeled vehicles get a lot of attention from hardcore fans of performance cars. They also get plenty of attention from hardcore fans of green vehicles--as they share many of the same desirable characteristics, like an aerodynamic teardrop shape with surprising stability, and light weight...
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Elio 84-MPG Three-Wheel Prototype: Driven In Parking Lot (Video)
It's not uncommon for small cars to get 40 mpg these days, or hybrids to hit 50 mpg. But vehicles doing more than that are conspicuous by their absence. Elio Motors claims its three-wheeled car does 84 mpg on the highway, far exceeding that of any car on sale. ALSO SEE: Why Tesla's Elon Musk Must...
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Fuel-Efficient Elio Three-Wheel Car Hits 15,000 Orders Before Production Starts
You wouldn't think a small, green, three-wheeled vehicle would be the perfect recipe for creating a buzz in the car world. But that's what Paul Elio has done with his Elio Motors firm, and though the vehicle in question is still a fair while from production reality, the company has a loyal...
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Startup Elio Motors Doesn't Get To Buy Ex-GM Plant After All
Elio Motors new home was saved from potential demolition, but the startup carmaker will not control its fate.
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Remember Elio Motors? If you're one of their 17,000 or so Facebook fans it'll be hard to forget, as the company's little green three-wheeled vehicle will be a regular fixture on your timeline. As The Detroit News reports, Elio has just released a new prototype of the tiny gasoline-powered vehicle, set to be built at an ex-GM facility in Shreveport, Louisiana. Alongside the prototype, Elio also announced the names of several suppliers on-board the project, including Altair Engineering, IAV, NEWTECH 3, Comau and more--many of which already serve dozens of other huge automakers. With a claimed...
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80-MPG Elio Three-Wheeled Car To Be Built At Former GM Truck Plant?
Startups making small, economical vehicles come and go, but one company offering a high-efficiency vehicle has big plans, buying a former General Motors assembly plant. Elio Motors is the company behind a three-wheeled car capable of 84 mpg highway, on nothing more complicated than gasoline...
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Aptera: It's Baaaaaaaaack! (We'll Believe It When We See it)
This story is now a couple of weeks old, but we haven't hurried to publish it. The gist is that the unique Aptera three-wheeled electric car is supposedly going to be reborn, and will return to the U.S. market sometime next year. A new company, Aptera USA, purchased the assets of the old Aptera...
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Screw Gas, Drive A Drill-Powered Electric Suicide Trike
We're all familiar with alternative lifestyles, but the EX electric tricycle looks like an attempt at an alternative deathstyle. Concocted in the mind of Nils Ferber and realized with the aid of a pair of Bosch drill/drivers, this is an EV for the motorist with a Rube Goldberg fetish and a death...
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Triac Electric Car - Three Wheels, 100 Miles And $25,000
With the focus naturally going towards some of the big electric car launches we've had this year or established players like Tesla Motors, it's all too easy to forget that there are a wealth of smaller companies out there producing their own, unique take on electric transport. One such company is...
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Wait A Month For Details of 2e Electric Car, Aptera Says
On Friday, Aptera held its first online Town Hall Meeting--a chat among eager followers and some of the Aptera marketing team. Their intent, according to the opening spiel, was to "reduce some of the mystery around the company and open our supporters and depositors up to some of the great things...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield