The San Diego Business Journal just published a great piece on Aptera and its outlook for 2022 and beyond. Main points: Scaling up headcount -hiring 500 people in 500 days Building out its 77,000-square-foot production facility in Carlsbad Production goal of making 40 vehicles a day by 2023 Added Brian Snow, venture capital investor and managing general partner of Impala Ventures, to the company’s board of directors Would like to IPO at some point 16,000 pre-orders
There seem to be quite a few factual inaccuracies in that piece - we're waiting for confirmation from Aptera of some of the more questionable statements.
I received an email from Aptera that confirmed that Aptera still intends to launch production this year BUT they don't expect to be up to full volume production until '23-'24. Ajptera also intends to begin international (non-USA) deliveries in 2024. The message also clarified this statment from the second paragraph of the SDBJ article: "The company is wrapping up testing its Beta model and has been working on its Gamma design for the last six months. Once testing on the Gamma is done, Aptera will build its preproduction Delta model that will have most of the car’s components, like a complete interior, airbags and air conditioning." The writer seems to have conflated some facts with a sketchy knowledge of the Greek alphabet: According to Aptera they are currently building Beta prototypes and plan to have a test-fleet of 6-12 vehicles before the beta phase ends. The Gamma phase will be the "preproduction" model that will have most of the vehicle's final components and the Delta phase will be "production-ready" units for testing.
