3-wheeled Aptera aspires to car-pool lane

CARLSBAD, Calif.

“Most people thought I was crazy,” Fambro recalls.

Some might still wonder when they see what emerged: a futuristic commuter car powered by electricity with a skin of epoxy resin, not sheet metal. And perhaps oddest, it has three wheels, not four.

The Aptera, with a range of 190 miles between charges, is intended to sell for around $30,000.