Transport Evolved News TEN Episode 484: Aptera's IRA, Fisker's Bleak Future, Cybertrucks Seized.
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2024
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On today’s show - Aptera announces a new retirement product, Fisker’s future looks very bleak, and Two Cybertrucks are seized as they seemingly head to Russia.
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00:00 - Start
00:31 - Welcome!
01:02 - Fisker Austria files for insolvency in self-administration
02:05 - Ford Europe seems to suggest it might not become an all-electric brand there… yet
03:03 - Tesla allegedly under DoJ investigation surrounding Autopilot, Autopilot FSD claims
04:05 - The rate of growth of gasoline demand is slowed by EVs
05:08 - Tesla showcases latest Optimus Robot prototype
06:05 - Aptera announces self-directed IRA with the firm
07:24 - Carvana’s Q1 sales report shows that EVs are becoming more affordable, selling more strongly
08:26 - Order Books open in the U.S. for Elii Zero, priced from $11,990
09:21 - Tesla continues its layoffs, Elon Musk sends out a weird email, and GM snaps up interns
10:19 - Florida company places order for 20 eVTOL Lilium Jets
11:21 - Sponsored Segment:: EnergySage
12:28 - Watt EV opens up its largest MCS station to date - complete with solar!
12:48 - NIO, GAC sign new battery swapping, charging partnership
13:06 - Warehouse facility owned by Alpitronic suffers major fire while closed for renovation
13:24 - Vermont Legislature passes 100% renewable energy mandate from 2035, but state governor unlikely to sign it
13:43 - Tesla Giga Berlin closes for four days due to planned protests
13:59 - Uk children’s Hospital bans EVs from parking inside its car parks, cites
14:22 - Lucid Publishes its quarterlies
14:39 - Rivian publishes its quarterlies
14:57 - Nikola publishes its quarterlies
15:15 - Kia teases EV3 ahead of reveal later this month
15:30 - Kia teases EV6 refresh ahead of reveal later this month
15:47 - U.S. Federal Government tweaks EV tax incentive eligibility
16:05 - U.S. Federal Government announces $100 million in subsidies for small and medium suppliers of the auto industry in grants for EV supply chains
16:21 - Rivian confirms it aims to produce 155,000 R2 SUVs per year following plant expansion
16:40 - Nio Subsidiary Firefly wants to bring sub-€30,000 EV to Europe
16:57 - Geely Galaxy E5 revealed for Chinese-market
17:15 - Amazon expands its electric fleet with nearly 50 class-8 big rigs
17:35 - As Tesla swaps out entry-level Long-Range Model Y, it confirms some customs may get a range unlock of standard range variants
17:51 - Enteligentopens pre-orders for the world’s first DC to DC solar fast charging station
18:12 - Daimler Trucks unveils autonomous eCascadia with Level 4 SAE hardware
18:27 - NHTSA asks Tesla to share all of its data on Autopilot, FSD, etc.
18:46 - Republican lawmakers lie again about EVs, try to end Federal tax incentive off those lies
19:13 - UK sets a new quarterly record for EV charging installations
19:29 - Tesla begins delivering Tesla semi to new customers
19:48 - BYD’s home city of Shenzhen, China, has more EV charging stations that gas pumps
20:07 - Freewire’s future looks uncertain as it poses possibility it might close in one month
20:28 - Porsche Taycan Turbo GT becomes Formula E’s new safety car
20:44 - 2024 Chevrolet Equinox gets its official EPA ratings
21:02 - 2024 Fiat 500e gets its EPA ratings
21:18 - Lectron recalls its CCS Type 1 to NACS adapter
21:35 - Toyota announces plan to heavily invest in EVs, AI
21:54 - Stellantis plans massive ramp in H2 Vehicles, including H2 RAM pickup
22:11 - Study from Michigan shows that politicians view EV charging as low priority, costly
22:33 - Polestar 2 now available in the U.S. for less than $300 per month
22:47 - Fatal crash involving VinFast VF8 may have also been the same car involved in complaint about steering
23:11 - Sponsored Segment: Atmos Financial
24:21 - Ryvid unveils new motorcycle - the Outset
25:21 - Tesla Cybertrucks heading to Russia seized in Lithuania
26:14 - Thanks, and Goodbye! 
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Always appreciate the TE team and everything you do. I certainly don’t have time to get all this info on my own!
"Ford has a lower demand for the expensive cars they offer" is what really is happening.
Great show. Sad to see that companies are seeing "people don't want expensive cars" and saying "people don't want EVs" when there's plenty of demand for less expensive EVs (which they aren't making)
How little car and how much money are you targeting ?
How about a close to an apples to apples swap of my Subaru Crosstrek and see where that ends up? US market.
i don't understand market research at all, but it amazes me what 'people want' when a car manufacturer says so vs what the people I work with or know socially want. THey never match, but they 'have' to buy it because there aren't options they want anymore.
@@CrankyOldNerd Do they want the proverbial "faster horses" ?+
NK. Ford and GM claim nobody wants to buy sedans or compact cars, yet I saw loads of Focus, Fusion, Cruze and Malibu vehicles around when they were available.
The many Civic, Corolla, Forte, 3, Impreza/Crosstrek, Sentra, vehicles (sedans and hatchback versions) I see around also demonstrate just how false their claims are.
They simply don’t want to bother with lower-margin vehicles.
If the established brands don’t want to offer affordable and smaller EVs, I welcome brands that would, if only to give them a “kick in their collective pants” to do the same.
I learned about Aptera 2 years ago, this is the one vehicle I'm waiting for!!!
This would be the automotive equivalent of "Waiting for Godot."
Waiting and waiting and waiting
bah the skeptics gfawing. thing is the prototype is proven well see in 9 months when production starts in earnest if all the sub supplyers can keep standards up
@@charlesballiet7074 I built a custom best of show with wheel mounted fenders. Only drove it to Phoenix area car shows. About once a year I had to reweld fender brackets. Even gad a certified air craft welder and nothing stopped those welds from breaking. You’ve got to have shocks! OK forget shocks. Where is the safety tests? Where is insurance information? Where is off road tests? Where are the winter tests?
It's a bit like waiting for one of Elon Musk's promises. 2017 Full self driving is less than 12 months away. 2024 still less than 12 months away. I too would love an Aptera, but I think I'll hang onto my deposit money until they're available in the showroom
the only thing that's sad about Fisker going down the tubes is that fools didn't stop listening to Henrik Fisker 10 years ago
Thanks for the news wrap up, TE Team!
Another great show. Thanks for all of your hard work.
Seems to be more 125+cc class bikes becoming available - great news. That's a good segment for practical use like commuting and for fun
They would be much more useful if they had fast (1C+) charge options for the occasional long trip, I hope that will become more common in the future
America: Let's make the most expensive, unattractive EV's possible. Also America: No one wants EV's.
And let's increase import barriers to keep those Chinese Commie spy-mobiles out. "Murica!
#1 model Y America Europe & China but hey , yeah right tho NOBODY wants ev’s
@@sparkysho-ze7nm Ford Trucks are Number 1 in the US, as always. Y is number 5, not shabby. But why you gotta lie?
@@CaptainXJ So you do know that there’s a class difference between a Ford truck and a Tesla SUV right?
Thank you guys
*resists the urge to mutter the famous line from Dude, Where’s My Car?
@@transportevolved pray tell, what line is that?
@@teklife We are not guys, we are hot chicks...
@@transportevolved 😊👍🤗
Thanks!
Ooh, I'm glad you put in that Daimler Trucks announcement. I happened to be driving by when they were taking those pictures, and wondered what it was about.
Fun fact: when they were taking press photos for a prototype e-Truck that became the eM2 - we had a studio just behind where the photos were taken!
Thank You to Lithuania!
Great show again NGB! Slight context addition on GigaBerlin, of the 4 days shut, 2 were a weekend and 1 was a national holiday. The Friday was the only day 'lost'. When I was in Germany the folks often took the day between a national holiday and the weekend off as a 'bridge' day, with permission of course...
More affordable electric motorcycles is great!
Thank you for emphasizing that anytime one is investing, especially in a start up company, into an IRA, or any other investment type, they should get responsible financial advice with a respected planner, and preferably one with a fiduciary responsibility to their clients. I have heard so much push back against Aptera over this stating that they are encouraging people to do this when it is simply an investment offering that one can choose to look into or ignore depending on their own individual circumstances. It’s called due diligence and personal planning depending on one’s financial situation and risk tolerance.
Investing in a startup is risky no matter how you invest in it! Actually using an IRA has tax advantages where a straight investment has none! I have invested over $18,000 into Aptera over the last 5 years and I can only wish the IRA option would have been available when I invested. The is no more risk when you invest in a startup if you do it in an IRA, just a big benefit if they are successful!
Retirement accounts should be low risk,, love Aptera, but NO
@@rp9674 then that’s the right choice for you.
@@rp9674 Retirement accounts can reasonably be higher-risk . . . if your investment horizon is far away. If you're retiring in 15 years, I agree with you, but if retirement is scheduled for 40 years out, you can do well by investing in higher-risk categories.
@@gmv0553 Yeah! It’s that last part that you need to consider before you start taking your long-term savings and investing in a start up, as there are a lot less risky ways to invest that kind of money.
So what I would tell you is, whether you use a certified financial planner/fiduciary, you need to think about who you are, and what do you actually want to accomplish and can you take the risk of a loss, because if you haven’t planned for that, then you really don’t know do you?
So my advice is, if you want to gamble with your money, then go to a casino, but if that money is to build a retirement nest egg that you can count on being there when you go to retire, you will do your own due diligence to make damn sure that that money is not placed at an undo risk, as again, there are a lot of less risky ways to invest your money, particularly money that you’re counting on being there when you retire. Capeesh! Cheers 🥂
I would love to have an ev someday but it will never be a tesla or any other ev where everything is controlled by the touchscreen infotainment system. I prefer having actual buttons for controlling different things.
I agree. With actual buttons you don't have to take your eyes off the road
So are you aware of why dinosaurs are no longer roaming the earth? Buttons! Buttons! Buttons! Really! Is that the real reason you’re saying that you don’t want to own/drive a Tesla?
So have you driven a Tesla?
How would you feel about voice commands (assuming that it would work, 95% of the time)?
Not happening.
Such a good news channel, I look forward to it every week!
17:51 yay! I’ve been waiting for that to exist. When I see folks demonstrate charging their EV from portable solar it’s always seemed silly they have to convert to AC.
Well. IDK about this product, but if you've got low voltage DC and need higher voltage DC, you kinda hafta do an AC (or AC-like) intermediate step to make the requisite moving magnetic fields that transformers rely upon.
Are they doing without a full AC waveform? IDK, but I'm not aware of how it can be done without something very close to AC (ie ON/OFF, which if it doesn't go below zero, I guess that's not AC?).
@@alsavage1 good point. I think you’re right that they’d need it for the step up transformers
What I want is a way to charge my car from home batteries, directly DC to DC. I'm not home during the day to charge my car with solar that I make. I usually want my car charged up right before I leave in the morning, so I'd like a way to take battery to battery. That would be the solution I'd like. Sure losses, but when I'm not there.. it goes to the grid anyway.
@@DuncanCunningham In order to charge a battery the source has to be higher voltage than the battery. So, your storage battery has to be charged to a higher level than the EV's battery.
Problem: if the source is TOO much higher than the EV's battery, the EV is charged "too fast": too much current flows, damaging the cells. You want to control that current flow so it's not "too much". And to do that, you have to lower your source voltage. See the problem?
Your storage battery has to be regulated to not provide voltage that is too high for the EV's state of charge when you first connect, but has to be even higher voltage later in the charging process, to continue to push current.
IOW, you can't do a pure battery-to-battery charge setup at this scale, because you can't keep the voltages differential in the correct range for the entire charge cycle. Meaning that you need a DC-DC Converter, which always (AFAIK) involves a transformer, which only works with moving magnetic fields, which implies . . . AC (or ON/OFF, which is AC-like).
Ford make only one EV for the UK. The MachE. Which starts from £50k ($63k). Meanwhile they’ve killed off the petrol Fiesta & Focus (all their affordable cars) while doing nothing since 2019 about the ZEV mandate. But, yeah. People don’t want EVs… it’s not Ford’s fault. Really.
Strange, we know of three models on sale in the UK. The Mach-E, the Explorer, and the e-Transit :/
According to Google at least, the explorer EV Starts at £40000, still not very affordable, and the E transit is a commercial vehicle... I think their point still stands@@transportevolved
@@louisjov Where's my Puma EV??
@@transportevolved the explorer has just been released, but you can’t get one yet. Plus it’s a reskinned VW, so not exactly a Ford original. The e-transit isn’t much of a family friendly car and starting at £43k, it’s not a budget option. Buying an EV for under £40k in the UK is a crap shoot right now. There’s a 10-12 week wait for EX30, same for Smart 1, you can’t even get a test drive of a Smart 3. MG are the best buy right now. Next year, road tax will add an “expensive car supplement” to any car with a list price over £40k.
I’ve just replaced my MINI SE with an ex demo EX30. Ford’s were not even on my list of 17 EVs under £40k.
The engineered "EV sales slowdown" exported to UK?
Great Evolving Nikki!!! Keep progressing on the voluntary payment course! We will support you all!
Always the best EV News on the web!
Great show.
Given its attractive price point, the Eli EV sales might just defy all the odds (at first glance) in the USA. For those wishing to nip to work, the shops, or attend to other local errands, the Eli should cover most people's daily round-trip needs?
I wonder how well it was received in Europe? I don't recall mention of it here in Europe and the UK.
Ryvid is an awesome experience. I got an anthem and it is fun. The outset looks great, but I can afford the licensing of 2 electric motorcycles.
Thank you for another great show!
I’m very interested in getting solar panels on my bungalow. I want to get a home charger for my car and the same for my bike!!
Our 10kw (nameplate) solar system pretty much completely offset my 56 mi/day commute. But I pushed the solar to the grid, and charged off the grid.
There are add'l savings to be had using true solar charging of EVs, but the up-front cost is expensive, because for most people the car isn't plugged in at the solar site when the solar site is making the most (or much) energy; therefore, storage has to be purchased, and an add'l big battery in your garage (plus the support electronics) is really not cheap. The ROI doesn't pan out for most folks, which is why I just pushed my solar juice back to the grid, and bought juice from the grid to charge the EV at night.
@@alsavage1 The "car isn't plugged in at the solar site when the solar site is making the most (or much) energy" part is why I am skeptical of vehicle as home battery schemes. For some people (like the host of this show) it can work. But not for the typical 9-5 commute.
@@jamesphillips2285 I agree you are speaking about a lot of people, including myself before retirement, but more and more people work from home now. Also I dream of a time where people can charge at work on chargers plugged into solar panels found at work. Solar panels covering parking lots would shade the cars on hot days and provide a lot of energy.
That Tesla robot is super fast!🤣
AndI would suspect that anyone that already flipped their cybertruck does not care where that truck was headed.
We need more electric cars on the market. The motorcycle is a wonderful thing, but I would never return to that form of transport.
Me either, mainly to high risk of injury or death caused by other drivers errors
Thanks for the fair and free shows.
Having really too much peaking solar on the grid, actually increases cost for grid operators.
It's why if you have solar you get a higher rate and a monthly cost of atleast €15/month here.
Which is why having your own battery bank is awesome, so you can use the extra energy you produce during the day in the evening. We like LiFePo4 batteries in particular, as they are very long life, and less expensive. Battleborn is a great brand for example.
Can't speak for anyone else, but I find Stellantis' plans to produce 100,000 H2 fuelled Utes per year totally mystifying. Where on earth do they imagine their customers will fuel up? California, perhaps it could be argued, is the most alternatively powered vehicle orientated State in the USA, yet the (very few) H2 filling stations that were in existence, failed spectacularly to take off and I think I'm correct in stating that all but one have since closed down for a host of reasons.
Thanks! Love the updates.
I live in a community where many families have a golf cart. If rather an Elii! Same price and i get an enclosed vehicle!
And $12k isn't out of the question for a golf cart, so the pricing is in the ballpark, too. I doubt, however, that the 90 mi (or whatever) range is really needed in this segment.
Thanks
Lovw that outro ✊
Personally, I don’t really like using the National Grid electricity to run my home. I want all my appliances and equipment to run on zero emissions electricity.
We have National Grid here in New York. There's no oil or coal used to generate electricity, and more renewables all the time. The biggest hangup is NIMBY anti-solar people.
@@jamesvandamme7786 I’m not going to argue with you, but here in England gas is the main way to generate electricity. Our clinically insane Conservative government just won’t change anything.
@@jamesvandamme7786 too bad the governor Commo of new york forced the shutdownn of indianpoint some years ago, with revoking a license for cooling water or such.
That electricity is now done with gas plants, they even build a few new ones.
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Ah the UK national grid vs NY national grid. While I think they are the same company, it use to be Niagara Mohawk that served upstate NY. With its name from the Niagara and Mohawk rivers (which got their name from native American tribes). To the main point it had been strongly powered by hydroelectric sources well before the idea of environmentally friendly energy was a thing.
@@toddfraser3353 The UK has more potential for offshore wind in shallow coastal sea.. We have some mountaintop wind, and solar farms are popping up all over.
2:50 - Ford can change demand for BEVs easily: just get prices down to real.
If TE ever wants to have interviews, Michael Bernard (electrify everything) is brilliant on the future of energy
Canoo Stock going up..
The Ryvid electric bike sounds very interesting, hope you get a chance to have a closer look (although I know you'd be wearing more sensible gear than the rider on the promo). Would make a great replacement for my little Honda.
That's typical pricing for NEVs and quadricycles. The Citroen Ami is an outlier.
Financial advisors advise. They don’t make decisions for you. Kinda like a doctor. If they do tell you what to do they should not be advisors anymore.
Who pays for advice from an expert and then doesn't take it?
Kind of ironic that a hospital would ban EV parking due to fire risk when ICE cars are the ones filled with highly flammable liquids.
Even more that the video we used showed EVs in it… - Nikki
@@transportevolvedI think these needs a deeper dive.
Sounds like story missing a lot of details.
I think the wood external might have triggered some insurance measurements.
Like external sprinkler systems, including the parking lot side.
And that EV fires are harder to put out and therefore a higher risk to the building, according to the fire department?
Gasoline fires can be extinguished with common means - sometime just throw dirt on it, battery fires cannot be controlled
@@timothykeith1367 Gasoline vehicle fires aren't usually fought. They don't even try. Contain the scene, and let it burn out, then douse and haul away. That's the way they're handled. Takes about 20 minutes until the flames are done.
EV fires take a lot longer to "burn down" to safe enough to flood and haul the carcass away.
It's a childrens hospital and deliberately hurts their patients by allowing fossil burning vehicles on their lot.
Now i know how they earn their hundreds of thousands in salaries. By hurting children...
Another great episode! Sorry people don't understand why funds are needed and why you have to explain why. I wish I could do more to support your channel, you guys are the main way I get my EV news and would love to see more car reviews.
As someone who has an Aptera reservation and is a small Aptera investor, I doubt I will ever see anything from either. I’m not putting more money toward them until they’re actually shipping vehicles.
I still hope they can succeed, for both my wallet and my garage, but I won’t be holding my breath.
Agree, I don't see any other aero-1st designs coming, sad
Tytyty team great production
Car Park Sprinkler Systems? WTF is that? I *REALLY* like the Ryvid Anthem.
They shouldn't allow vehicles with liquid combustibles in them, especially hybrids.
I think there must be a confusion, with fire-Hose points.
Though it seems the cladding of the hospital is all wood, might be a insurance thing that they need external sprinklers.
Why doesn't Tesla make the Aptera their $ 25-30k affordable "Model 2" !? It will apparently use the proprietary Tesla connector/charging network.
If the Vermont legislature was 100% sustainable electricity, it could have a chance to come trough.
Including nuclear, new or imported electricity from states.
Maybe some CCS icw waste burning and such things, if they want to pay for the Ccs.
Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.
Would like to see you include efficiency #s for new cars, not just range. Whereas range it's still important, i know that i, at least, an interested in that consumption per mile which maps to operating cost after verifying a usable range.
I have driven my EV for about 11 months. I live in New England (NH) where my home electricity costs are relatively high. I have driven my EV over 25,000 miles. When I charge at home, my cost in electricity is about 8¢ per mile. I have had literally zero dollars in maintenance costs. I am getting close to needing new tires, likely when I get to 30k miles. Hope this helps.
My home electricity costs about 27¢ per kWhr. I have averaged 3.4 mi/kWhr with my ID.4 since I started driving. This includes driving through an entire winter. I drive about half my miles on secondary or local roads, and about half on the highway.
Partenership?
Now that’s one good thing to help me bad things from being so bad that people want everything rather than nothing at all.
Yeh! Ryvid OUTSET ⚡
Full Self Driving in two weeks , lol.
Naah, Tesla is bankwupt again in 2 weeks because Elon fired the whole Supercharger Department!
2017 less than 12 months away, 2024 less than 12 months away. What have Enron, Elizabeth Holmes and Elon Musk got in common? At least Musk can escape to Mars to avoid prosecution. Or is the Mars project a fantasy too.🤣
Hope Rivian can get to that r2 production number without any major issues
EV fiancial fallout continues to drag on.
Aptera for retirement. Ha! Wheel mounted motors. Off road testing. Cold weather testing ice and snow. Crash safety testing. Finding insurance coverage. Air conditioning. Think about these negatives and then think about your retirement mony. Think Think
The Alderhey Children's Hospital carpark EV ban: it's worth noting that the Hospital, when contacted for comment, stated that they had other EV parking in another parking area on-site. Either way, it amply demonstrates the level of misinformation and lack of adequate knowledge with fire departments, public bodies, and the general public at large about EVs, batteries of all types, and green technology in general.
Elon is a serial optimist. He constantly overstates and exaggerates capabilities and underplays/ignores any problems - unless it is related to the government, of course. This is consistent with the personality traits of an entrepreneur.
don't listen to financial advisors they know no more than anyone.
They lost my girlfriend 10k last year .
algoritmo (Algorithm in Yucatec Maya)
China has great, affordable EVs. US companies and politicians dont want us to use them.
Only 100% tariffs 🤣
👍👍😎✌️🤟
Ford experienced a lack of interest because the cheapest models offered are somewhere sround 40k and are terrible.
No one who os looking for a cheap car csn afford a car with limited function/application. We need a car to take on 4 hour trips as well as on commute.
If they wanted to figure out the problem they could start by fuggin trying...
How are they terrible?
@@Dularr This person still thinks in the same old argument that they need an EV with a 1000 mile range to get anywhere. That's why EVs are terrible.
I think it is a disgrace that Aptera is encouraging people to use their retirement accounts to invest in such a high risk venture. They know perfectly well how high risk their company is. Personally, for many reasons, I think Aptera is doomed to bankruptcy again; but, even if they are optimists they can't help realizing that the company is an extremely high risk investment. Not something remotely suitable for a retirement account.
Fisker done.
Aptera IRA? That’s… risky.
Aptera is being creative, but still seems an interesting but niche vehicle. Based on U.S. motorcycle sales each year, Aptera may ultimately sell 200K a year, maybe?
Its not risky if you dont invest more then 3% of your savings!
@davidmccarthy6061 not likely, as many people will see how wide and impractical the vehicle is for parking, use on narrow streets, and in winter conditions
No more risky then investing in Aptera without an IRA! But the IRA has tax advantages over just investing into it!
@@gmv0553 Exactly. Investing with pre-tax money. And even if the IRA's investments devalue, you can still claim the loss. It's not unattractive.
Toyota UGLY, is there new design language. Could their new ev designs be any worse? I don't think so!
Agreed, it's almost like they're building EVs that won't sell so they can continue to focus on hybrids. The ongoing promise of solid state batteries "coming soon" (for many years now) also helps justify their slow transition to EVs.
@@jamespaul2587 Coming soon. They've obviously learnt from the master of spin. Elon Musk
I'd never buy from a brand associated with Bieber.
Why not? A Biber is not even meat according to the catholic church. It's a fish. Fish is good!
Great show, as always.
Aptera hasn't sold a single vehicle. More than 90% of startups fail. The electric vehicle market is consolidating and commoditizing towards mass manufacturers, which Aptera is not. Aptera's first customer vehicle will be first gen, likely with bugs, manufacturing design mistakes, and build quality issues. There will likely be a recall if the Aptera vehicle ever actually sees the light of day and makes its way onto American roads and streets. Please don't invest any money you can't afford to lose in Aptera. This is not financial advice. I am not a financial advisor. I am, however, saying this as an Aptera investor and reservation holder myself. All the best.
It's a shame if they don't succeed. We need affordable small economical cars, not cyber monsters that can accelerate near the speed of sound. Why are manufacturers obsessed with monster vehicles with huge batteries weighing as much as a small house. Come on, Aperta is on the right track, but sadly I don't hold much hope of their success. 😥
@@duviworthing If they actually produce vehicles that deliver on their targets then there’s a better chance they will be acquired by a larger company, hopefully a tech giant like Apple or Google.
Good job :)
25:57 Todays Belarus is Russia, there is no way to deny that. They do what ever Russia wants and they have a dictator as a leader. They also have no border control between them and Russia, there are small roads over the boarder without any border control. This is heard directly from a russian citizen.
So many start-up companies either failing or on the brink of failing. Why is there this ridiculous philosophy in car building of continually adding more and more unnecessary complexity and features that are utterly pointless. Not only do they make cars too expensive to buy but also too expensive to develop and too expensive to repair. How can any EV manufacturer claim and degree of "green" credentials when they're making disposable cars that probably won't last as long as their predecessors.
I don't want an Imax screen bolted to the dashboard, insanely expensive matrix lights, when a simple LED should be more than capable of doing the job. Less is more......
Why doesn’t Elon invest the money needed by Aptera and others?
Why should Elon invest ? Tesla does not pay him. The judge has denied all his salaries.
Because he's going bankrupt?
@@duviworthing No, Elon can not go bankruot. Elon is already bankwupt.
@@wolfgangpreier9160 🤣Of course, you're right, I was being generous.
I’ve been both driving and riding electric cars and bicycles for the last four years. I shall never return to petrol or diesel because fuel for my electric car is much cheaper.
Even if EVs _aren't_ cheaper, they're necessary because . . . climate. That they *can* be cheaper to operate is really beside the point in the longer view. I'm at 70k of EV driving and love it . . . but I do keep and maintain a second ICE vehicle because I cannot do everything with the main EV, it's not capable.
@@alsavage1 I think you've answered the question as to the poor take-up of EVs. If you can only justify 1 vehicle, why would you choose an EV? Cars and vans account for around 10 percent of global CO₂ emissions. So even if every car and van went electric and all the electricity was green and the manufacture of the cars was zero. We still have 90% to sort out. It's all virtue signalling. The only answer is to reduce the world population by 90% and that's not going to happen in our lifetime. Just enjoy the rest of your life doing as little harm to others as we can.
The Tesla robot, operated by someone in an exosuit. Why not use tried and tested factory robots instead of a really inefficient humanoid one. Such a stupid idea. Robots have been successfully operating in factories since the 1970s Another genius Elon idea. Take something that already exists and make a worse version, or at least take the credit for other peoples ideas and hard work.
And when it comes to politics, I very much doubt that the Conservative Party over here in England will win an election for the next goodness knows how long!!
Let's hope you are right.
Aptera would make a great “budget” Tesla, so why not to put a ring on it, Elon?
Because Elon has empty pockets and nobody from Aptera want the attention his involvement would bring
@uaalien It would be a huge mistake for anyone to go near (make an investment) Aptera. There isn't any technology at Aperta, that Tesla doesn't already have. Aperta is likely to fail, 2 seat vehicles are a very niche product in the USA.
The Aptera scam has been running for nearly 20 years. They keep claiming they’ll crash test them like cars- but constantly remind everyone that, hey, it’s legally a motorcycle. But that three wheel design is not going to be stable on rough roads or heavy snow, especially at highway speeds. And, apart from crashing it into another Aptera, you’re not walking away from an accident.
First they wanted deposits, then non-refundable deposits, then “investments.” Now they want to take your retirement money.
I say that's a terrible idea too, but from the perspective that I don't want Musk to stink Aptera up.
If they need an angel investor that badly they could court less offensive billionaires.
Jay Leno likes their cars, he's not quite a billionaire but he could part with a cool hundred mill without breaking the bank.
@@tonespeaksI read nothing but a non-funded, pun intended, opinion in your reply.
And the next one doesn't even know old aptera is not the new aptera company.
FSD tec is moving faster than than the law ìt will be solved by the time a case comes to court
"Used EVs are becoming a far better value for money proposition". Isn't that due to the disastrously high depreciation of EVs, or am I missing something? Moral of the story is, don't buy a new EV. Let some other sucker take the hit.
The market is now maturing.
Realistic prices are now,.
And some of the 5 year old EVs have a much different structure then what seems to stand, like above 100kw charging.
V-tolls, 😴
I just can't get existed by them.
I can't even get excited about them I'm a bad idea, especially the flying car concepts
if Meg Simpson grew up she would look like you!
but i bet you have heard that before…
You know what's funnier than you trying to troll this channel? You trying to troll the channel and not even getting the name of the fictional character you're trying to body shame the host with. Get outta here.
"Used EVs are becoming a far better value for money proposition". I'm sorry, but you lost me there. In what world is a used EV a better proposition than it was two years ago? Battery replacement is in fact MORE expensive now and with the downturn in overall EV sales, scarcity is bound to keep prices artificially high. This is why the EV enthusiast community does itself no favors - if we want people to get on board with the technology we have to be honest about the tradeoffs and the cost.
Why do you want to replace your battery? Have you bought a Renault Zoe? Or a Mitsubishi MiiEV?
@Waymo 🤝 @ApteraMotors
Eficiente coches con buena tecnología de computadoras conducir = 🧀🧀...
Thanks!