Aptera motors have designed a new electric car that goes 160 km on a single charge and should be ready to be sold by the end of the year. Nevertheless, they won’t get money from the US government – funds that promote electric vehicles and other high-efficiency cars in the Innovative Vehicle Act. Why not? Because this vehicle has three wheels and is therefore not considered a car – a car is a motor vehicle with four wheels and there is no exception. As said the representative of Aptera motors, Brian Bilbray, his company is the victim “of an arbitrary designation made ages ago by some bureaucrat”. However, if the company manage to prove that their vehicle is a car, they will be able to benefit from another arbitrary and absurd designation made by bureaucrats: “green car”.

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