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"The Launch Edition Aptera doesn’t look dramatically different from the car that was first teased in 2019."

I agree.

They always need just a liiiiitle more money from "investors" and then BAM! they'll disrupt the industry. I've been hearing this about Aptera since 2009...and again when it was "reformed" in 2019. It smells like a scam in 2023.

Wasn't this car finished about four months ago? Oh, it's an article from...four months ago that was just posted. They've raised about $12MM so far, and have a matching grant from the state of California that will put them over the top once they raise another...$15MM I think.

That interior looks incredibly cheap

> The two-person Codex interior, meanwhile, is clean and minimalistic, with just two screens and a steering wheel up front

Going to go ahead and guess it fails the glovebox test. If you have to push multiple buttons to open the glovebox, it's poor design

That's copied from the article. Did you have additional commentary to add to it...?

See, I don't wear driving gloves so that's not a problem.

Everything about it is cheap. They’re using the cheapest motor tech, cheap materials, cheap suspension. The road noise is crazy.

Futuristic-looking , but impractical design.

Looks like there are too many blind spots, even with sensors. If it has a rear window, visibility by the driver will be nil and car will need an always on rear-facing camera.

Auto insurance for it could be sky high. If it’s too costly to repair, expect insurers to total the car, even for minor accidents, as I’ve read about the Tesla Y.

Another Elio-like flop? Just enough product to bate more investors.

Bate?

Too early. But I baited you into correcting me. TY. LoL

Hope it does well!

Most efficient car-like vehicle design, everything else looks pretty outdated and pretty inefficient compared to this.

Looking forward to get mine (and I won't hold my breath, I can wait until they make it to Europe).

BTW: a good source of information is "Aptera Owners Club" youtube channel.

It's literally built for aerodynamic efficiency. I don't think you know what "practical design" means. There are a lot of criticisms about the design one can make. Unpractical is not one of them.

The launch edition configuration will have full solar (including the rear hatch) and thus won't have a rear window. But it will have a rear-facing camera.

Later, there will be other configurations.

They are even using cheap carbon fiber!!1 :-P

I live and drive in the real world. In the real world, there is more to practical design than aerodynamic efficiency.

Another responder said it will have a rear-facing camera, an essential safety feature that you omitted.

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>In the real world, there is more to practical design than aerodynamic efficiency.

There literally is nothing more practical than aerodynamic efficiency when the intent of the car is to maximize driving distance per watt hour. Literally not a single thing more practical. Not one.

Edit: Lol, you threw a little pout and blocked me over this. What a thin skinned crybaby. No wonder you freak out over nonsense. They always love to throw out their little last whine before they block too. So cliché.

So, it doesn’t matter whether a car is a potential safety hazard; or, whether Insurance companies have a habit of totaling every wrecked car of this design.

lol you joke, but from my experience carbon fiber comes in two varieties: expensive and ungodly expensive lmao. The pre preg stuff that has resin already in the material is what I consider the ungodly expensive stuff, and the dry stuff that's intended for wet layup is STILL pretty expensive. Fiberglass is so good nowadays itll get you like, 90% of the way there at like 1/10 of the cost. Fiberglass parts can be every bit as strong as the carbon ones, though obviously the diff comes in the weight, which is still pretty close between the two.

Always makes me scratch my head when I'm making a part or see a part made outta carbon where the application is not weight-critical. Which happens a lot more often than I thought would be the case. Then, even funnier, is when the part is half-assed and they end up using more resin and not even gaining any weight savings from the material.

Yup looks like a 1990 "Total Recall" Taxi

I still can’t believe they advertise this as an off-road adventure rig, I always see ads for it with the comments locked because they can’t handle the criticism. This thing is going to crack at the first pot hole.

Do people store things other than their registration and insurance in the glove box?