Maybe there will be an interesting book about Aptera after it inevitably fails. More likely it would be a chapter in a book about really bad ideas.
. It’s actually a deeply interesting firm with the potential to deliver both a great grid battery and an industrial component of the future that manufactures carbonates, both key wedges in climate action. I’ve been a strategic advisor and Board observer for the firm for a couple of years, and make that clear every time I mention it. Ditto, which I haven’t written an article about as the primary subject, just mentioned in a couple of contextually appropriate pieces.
At that, they are more credible than the inventors of the oscillating wind stalk, whose previous firmReporting on a firm like Aptera is not particularly difficult in 2023. Its existence is shorter than the lifespan of the internet. It has a Wikipedia page . The history of its investments and failures is easy to find.
Other than that, the entire space is littered with failures. There’s an emergent crop of low-speed, urban, electric delivery trikes that’s fit for purpose, but Aptera is not going to be the exception to the road vehicle rule.When I looked at urban air mobility’s electric vertical landing and takeoff vehicles , I gathered outside view data on the cost to get aerospace products to market.
There is next to no demand for three-wheeled, motorized road vehicles. People think they want them, but they actually don’t. The space has most or all of the inconveniences of motorcycles with none of the advantages. People with inner-ear disorders and too much money who want motorcycles get Can-Ams or Harley-Davidson trikes., is a term that came from nuclear power plant planning and construction.
The panels will never be aligned with sunlight, completely fail to work in completely normal circumstances for vehicles people actually drive, add weight, add complexity, and add cost. How credulous do people have to be to believe that this is a useful feature? The recent announcement made it clear that Aptera left out actually useful stuff for electric road vehicles in 2023, most notably the ability to charge more quickly than a snail, but still have the inane solar panels.
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