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RobertSmalls,
Your comment about the tandem Aptera is noted, but this is why the real Morelli paper is needed since it explains why the Aptera is shaped as it is, and once that is clear, you will see why a back seat is not so easy to fit in. Notice that the Aptera is already plenty long without a rear seat at all.
I think that that old Popular Science article really did a disservice by focusing on the car that came out of the Morelli studies, and really ignored the shape that he investigated that looked like the Aptera does now. Perhaps this is one reason why the whole industry largely ignored the thing I call the 'Morelli shape'.
So all this has led me to the view that it would be worth while to actually elevate a relatively thin, ideally shaped, body of revolution and then do the things necessary to make that work. That looks like a way to get into a whole new league for efficiency.
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