If you want to find the Wild West of street-legal vehicles, look no further than those with three wheels?and vehicles like the Electra Meccanica Solo, an all-electric three-wheeled car that was just revealed in its production specification today.
Three-wheeled cars like the Solo are a persistent trend at the fringes of the automotive landscape, and in this era of more flexible thinking about mobility they could be closer to latching on now than a decade ago. Look to the classic, century-ago retro looks of the Morgan 3 Wheeler (and its very limited-production, steampunk-sexy EV3 electric version), and the Mad Max?zany Polaris Slingshot, as proof that trikes can offer up some unparalleled elemental open-wheel-roadster thrills. And then there?s the efficiency extremist approach, seen in the highly ambitious (and now defunct) Aptera, the Corbin Sparrow (and subsequent Myers Motors), and the Elio. The Solo follows closest in the footsteps of Elio Motors in aiming for fiscally responsible commuters, although from the front it eschews the open-wheel look of the Elio in favor of a closed-fender design?and more of a conventional small-car look from the front. In back, however, it has the same tapered, teardrop shape that you?ll find in the Elio and others.

On the outside, the Solo is just 120 inches long (just over a foot longer than a Smart Fortwo), rides on an 80.5-inch wheelbase, and measures 50.5 inches high (only slightly higher than a Mazda Miata). It?s 47.5 inches wide at t...