The name Aptera was chosen because the vehicle resembles a small, wingless aircraft.

之所以选用Aptera这个名字，是因为这种电动车像小型的无翼飞行器。

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They range from the exotic — a three-wheel, all-electric 2e from the tiny startup Aptera — to the thoroughly mainstream.

从奇异派(由小公司Aptera生产名为2e的3轮全电动汽车)到完全主流品牌。

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One reason for the emergence of firms such as Aptera is that designing a new vehicle has become as much an exercise in software simulation as in metal (or even carbon-fibre) bashing.

之所以Aptera这样的公司出现，就是因为新车型的设计已经很大程度上变成了计算机仿真技术的运用，而不只是依赖于金属(或者是碳纤维)。

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Another was Aptera, which hopes to produce a really wild-looking three-wheeled electric vehicle called the 2e (think of an airplane without wings).

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Aptera certainly managed to attract a fair bit of attention for itself earlier this year, when its concept car turned as many heads for its space age looks as it did for its promised 200 MPG range.

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Add VPG to the growing list of recent green car failures: Bright Automotive (electric delivery vans) , Carbon Motors (clean diesel-powered police cars), Aptera Motors (three-wheeled electric cars), Coda Automotive (inexpensive electric sedans) and, arguably the most infamous, Fisker Automotive (plug-in hybrid sports cars).

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