Electric Car Kits in Our Future?

You can buy a kit to build a replica of cars like the AC Cobra or Porsche 356 Speedster. And you can buy a kit to build a 350 mph airplane. So where are the electric kit cars!!?

I recently read an article about the Aptera Motors 2e plug-in electric (pictured above). It's going to be built, as a production vehicle, in California and sold to the public in 2010. One of my first thoughts was, "This looks like a cross between a kit-car and a kit-plane! I want to build something like this!"

Can a 90 mph home-built electric car be built for less than the $35,000 price of the Aptera? For now I'm going to be watching sites like Wired's Autopia to see what happens.  I've got my fingers crossed that some brave and creative soul is working out the details. -- Mit Spanner