Recently, Aptera held a live online event where the company revealed the Launch Edition version of its three-wheeled solar-powered car.
There are some really cool things about the final design, but also some downsides early adopters will face. You can see the event yourself below, or read my recap and commentary below it.Aptera starts out with a nice introduction about why it’s doing what it’s doing, and then moved on to showing footage of the latest Delta design.
Another feature Aptera revealed is that the vehicle will come with an aluminum belly pan. This is important because it won’t get destroyed should you scrape it on something, and aluminum is still a good conductor for the integrated battery cooling the belly pan will have built-in. That having been said, Aptera does share some information that makes living with L2 for now not look so bad. With the 6.6 kW onboard charger, a 240 volt station will add 57 miles per hour, and even a lowly 110 volt charging session would add 13 miles per hour. Depending on how much you want to drive in a day and what kind of highway range this vehicle gets, that might be good enough for some road trips.
As the company has discussed before , the Launch Edition vehicles will all be in the same configuration. This helps the company get production going for the first run a lot faster, and lets it gain some experience with its production methods to ramp up speeds later and offer more options. The drivetrain will also be exciting. Each of the three wheels in the launch edition will have an in-wheel hub motor, with torque vectoring enabled. This means that the computer can reduce power to one side and increase it on the other to aid in handling and traction control . These will be driven by a 42 kWh battery pack, with a “targeted range” of 400 miles per charge.At this point, the founders yield the floor to Aptera’s chief of design for more discussion of the vehicle.
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