An intriguing image!

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Kerbe

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Aptera just released this image of a rolling chassis, viewed from the middle and looking forward. The suspension and steering components are in place but (if the fact that the orange power cables are coiled and one can see straight through where the motor should be mounted) but the motor and battery modules are not. Aptera appears to be moving forward, one assembly step at a time!
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I used to work on the assembly line in Wixom, MI, building Lincolns and Thunderbirds. However, cars destined for "customers" with surnames like "Ford," weren't manufactured on the assembly line. Instead, there was a guy who would come by and take parts from our assembly-line supply to his own special room. There, he would hand-build an entire Lincoln Continental (he only built those cars, AFAIK) all by himself. I was amazed to realize there was someone who knew that much about those cars.

It's great to see Aptera finally transitioning from a single, hand-built EV to the assembly line they've been planning for so long.

Thanks to Aptera's suppliers providing larger and more complex components, there are fewer separate parts required to assemble a 2026 Aptera in Carlsbad than a 1969 Lincoln in Wixom, so Apera's modern assembly line will be much shorter. I and 50,000 reservation holders would enjoy seeing a time-lapse video showing the full process when Aptera's assembly line begins working to fill that backlog.
 
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