New electric car? Aptera 2e

niel

you guys be the judge as particulars seem nonexistant and it has a deadend faq page. is that a flexible pv on the roof as i can't tell too well and i saw no mention in the text i glanced over?

news article from yahoo:
http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/autos_content_landing_pages/857/exclusive-aptera-2e

http://www.aptera.com/

n3qik

Re: New electric car? Aptera 2e

From here:
http://www.aptera.com//reservations.php

"Solar Assisted Climate Control"

Cariboocoot

Re: New electric car? Aptera 2e

"Solar assisted climate control"? You can buy that at Canadian Tire: solar powered window vent fan. *LOL* It does not appear the solar roof panel is connected to the drive batteries.

Sounds a lot like all the previous hyped automotive 'breakthroughs': they've built one or two, and you'll never see any production. Auto trade magazines rarely say a negative word about anything as they're too afraid of losing potential advertisers.

"We will provide additional details regarding battery chemistry as we get closer to production." - from Aptera's FAQs. A lot of their answers to questions are like this. The "we won't know where we are 'til we get there" sort.

The body design looks about as practical as a square wheel. No one should buy anything without knowing the final price first, and a $20,000 spread is pretty wide.

When there's a dealer lot full of these near you, go and make your evaluation then.;)

Bring back the Isetta!

Windsun

Re: New electric car? Aptera 2e

I think the only thing right now with more hype than "do it yourself" solar, (usually fake) "green", and solar cars is ShamWow.

And about as believable unless you are that $30,000,000 mouse...