Aptera claims to be able to get 40 miles a day via solar. Most people drive less than that per day.

You should actually watch their videos and do some research before spewing your speculations. Seems like it’s going to be pretty safe to me.

Their tech isn’t just the solar, they’ve optimized the car solely for efficiency. They claim their car can get 10 mi/kwh, so with 700W of solar panels they can get up to 40 miles of charge per day with just the solar. By contrast, the solar panels that are available on the new Prius get 4 miles of charge per day.

Now that their production-intent vehicles are just starting to be built up, I’m eagerly awaiting their actual test data that hopefully verifies their claims on efficiency, range, crash safety, etc. but we’ll see 🤞 I really hope they succeed.

Lots of people here criticizing Aptera who clearly haven’t researched the company or the tech.

Holy shit that’s a real thing

What about ADHD?

Please don’t insult the rats, they’re good little critters

Is the Patagonia guy a billionaire? He seems like a good dude.

I see Yoda in the 2nd pic

Not if you just stop using Instagram

This is pretty sus.

I don’t disagree but every time I’ve seen a diesel engine on a cargo ship it was absolutely massive.

Still doesn’t really seem all that big. Some EVs have 100 KWh batteries. A container ship with the battery capacity of 500 cars doesn’t sound like much.

Wired still has some advantages. Mainly sound quality.

Spicy pillow?

Oh great! I can’t wait to not see it or hear about it again just like all those other amazing breakthroughs 😭