We here at Truckeo know the truth – or at least are willing to make up a close facsimile of it. We know the real issue is the fact that the battery died on the Aptera at SEMA – and even the mighty power pack could not get it moving. With the embarrassment of the little control battery upfront needing a charge, the company is now in big trouble. Even electric cars can’t just run on pixie dust and press releases, and so it was with the Aptera. The little battery in the front would let the big battery in the back work, so the car was stuck until it could be charged up. I heard at least one Las Vegas teamster declare that he would never buy an Aptera after seeing that. Of course he was 6’7″ and 300 lbs, so he would never fit into it anyway.

Also, we think it is a little ugly without the front tire covers on, don’t you?

Battery charger supplied by Star Billet . While you are here, why not buy something nice for your truck, since you can’t have an Aptera anytime soon?

People are so frustrated that they have taken to making their own hybrid trucks. Trucks are quite useful for hauling things around, deliveries, as well as looking cool and motorized hiking. We love trucks here at Truckeo, which is a good thing since the business is selling truck accessories. If we didn’t like trucks, work wouldn’t be any fun. But back from my tangent and returning to the point of this blog post, Hybrid Trucks. Most hybrid trucks are built to use two energy sources to move the truck down the road. The most common is using gasoline engines with battery powered electric motors. Chris Lentz’s F-150 went another route because he kept the original gas engine and also equipped the F-150 with a Motorlet M-701 jet motor.

While this is an impressive bit of engineering, we are a little disappointed with a few things. First – he went for the power hybrid instead of the economy hybrid, just like Lexus did with their LS460H. Don’t get us wrong, we like power – but an extra 2700 HP will not do much for fuel economy, but it does help with passing on the freeway.

Another issue we have is the use of a standard cab truck. Two seat trucks are fine, but you will never sell any volume of vehicles if they are only two seaters. Had Chris made his hybrid truck in a crew cab format, I am sure he would be able to sell more than double the number of vehicles than he could with a regular cab. This is the same mistake that Ford made with the SVT Raptor.

Third – why not go with a Super Duty Diesel as a base vehicle. Then the truck would only need one fuel tank since Jet Fuel and Diesel are basically interchangeable, at least that is what some cracked out meth-addict truck driver told me once in a remote gas station bathroom. He may have been exaggerating since he claimed he had been awake for 56 hours and was trying to escape from the aliens. Still the ability to fill up with diesel anywhere would be preferable to driving to the airport all the time for some Jet-A. Chris claims he can run it on bio-diesel, but we think he is just saying that to score points with the hippie chicks that go for a guy who drives a hybrid.

So rather than installing a Jet Engine to try and improve fuel economy, why not try something like the S&B Cummins Air Filter and Intake combo. My friend Mic put one on his truck and told me that he got another 2 miles per gallon (no joke).

Here is the video of the F-150 Hybrid