Aptera's designer is moving on...

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Did Elon email Mr. Hill and demand he answer the question,"What did you get done this week?"

Actually, it appears Mr. Hill has successfully shepherded the Aptera through its R&D phase and nearly into its production phase. His resume will be unique. Hopefully, his departure won't deter potential major investors.
 
Not impressed with Aptera. They have no manufacturing plant takes hundreds of millions to get to production and just isn't going to happen.

The best path for them imo is to make the aptera as a kit car, especially considering the vehicle is niche anyway
 
OneEV said:
The best path for them imo is to make the aptera as a kit car
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How many of the more than 40K people who have put down money for an Aptera can build a kit car? Are kit cars still a thing? I'll have to look in the back of Popular Mechanix.
 
OneEV said:
Not impressed with Aptera. They have no manufacturing plant takes hundreds of millions to get to production and just isn't going to happen. The best path for them imo is to make the aptera as a kit car, especially considering the vehicle is niche anyway
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Well, that's why they DON'T have a manufacturing plant: They have a final assembly facility because the vehicle components will come to them directly from suppliers. Remember, their building process was designed by Sandy Munro, an industry-leader in the field.

As to a kit car version, they'd still need to engineer the vehicle and manufacture all the parts: The only difference for consumers would be that the vehicle would have no warranty.
 
Kerbe said:
Well, that's why they DON'T have a manufacturing plant: They have a final assembly facility because the vehicle components will come to them directly from suppliers. Remember, their building process was designed by Sandy Munro, an industry-leader in the field.

As to a kit car version, they'd still need to engineer the vehicle and manufacture all the parts: The only difference for consumers would be that the vehicle would have no warranty.
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Munro? Lol. That pretty much guarantees they will fail ust as they have the past ten years
 
OneEV said:
Munro? Lol. That pretty much guarantees they will fail just as they have the past ten years
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Aptera is not the same company that crashed in 2011. The new (2019) Aptera Motors Corp. has been working hard, step-by-step, engineering the vehicle to be manufacturable, working with well-known suppliers to develop the components they will assemble. That engineering includes the software that will manage not only the vehicle, but also the vehicle's unique solar-charging capability.

All this on a shoestring budget--unlike Volkswagen, who squandered billions of euros on Cariad, their failed EV software division. Can Rivian's software save them?
 
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