Live from CES!

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Kerbe said:
Aptera will be unveiling the PI Aptera at 10AM Pacific
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After all these years, Aptera's showing essentially production vehicles!

It's a bit disappointing the driveable Aptera is missing interior parts while the Aptera with the full interior doesn't drive. There must be comatose engineers hooked up to IVs back in Carlsbad after the efforts they expended to get these vehicles ready for CES.
 
Aptera posted an image of one of Hermes' (PI-2) wheel pants open: A surprising number of people seem to assume that the front wheel covers are static parts of the vehicle's body, not realizing that they're attached to the wheels so that they turn with the steering and rise and fall with the suspension. Another assumption is that they're hollow - like wheel wells in fenders - and will pack full of snow and ice in the winter: Note how closely the inner liner conforms to the shape of the tire.
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Kerbe said:
Aptera posted an image of one of Hermes' (PI-2) wheel pants open: A surprising number of people seem to assume that the front wheel covers are static parts of the vehicle's body, not realizing that they're attached to the wheels so that they turn with the steering and rise and fall with the suspension. Another assumption is that they're hollow - like wheel wells in fenders - and will pack full of snow and ice in the winter: Note how closely the inner liner conforms to the shape of the tire.
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With those flip-up covers, the engineers gave owners the access needed to put air in the front tires. It's good Aptera says they will be adding a valve-stem door to do the same with the rear wheel.

Will there be a sensor and a main-screen read-out to let you know when the valve stem is lined up with the valve-stem access door? It was a frustrating hit-and-miss procedure on my 2000 Honda Insight with its wheel spats covering most of the rear wheels. If the Aptera doesn't include a sensor, at least the hit-and-miss procedure will be required for only one wheel, not two.
 
insightman said:
Aptera says they will be adding a valve-stem door
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As I understand it, the current plan is to have an extended stem on the rear tire - similar to those used on the inside tire of double-wheel trucks. The valve would always be near the center of the wheel so the access flap would need to be at the hub.

My wish, though, is for a removeable or openable "spat" over the entire rear tire, making it accessible without having to remove the complete rear fairing.
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