It's a plane! It's a car! It's a trike!: Taking a spin in the Aptera 2e, an electric three-wheeler that exhibits some out-of-the-box thinking - way out

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NEW YORKERS WOULD have been impressed if we'd told them that the makers of the Aptera 2e, the two-seat, three-wheeled oddity we were driving around Soho, promised the equivalent of more than 200 mpg and a 100-mile range between charges of its battery pack. But we never got that far. The mind of every single New Yorker who saw us was blown at first sight. We could have told them anything. The fact that the Aptera looks like a futuristic Piper Cub minus wings makes the name - Greek for "wingless flight" - apt. Except, we were hardly flying. More like sitting in traffic in downtown Manhattan at rush hour, in an early development mule, barely even driving. And, boy, were people digging our scene.