The long term success of any EV in my opinion will be determined by upgradability, we need to stop thinking about disposable cars. once you have a platform (Body) being able to swap batteries , motors, controllers, and upgrade software on the fly as technology advances would be a smart and practical investment. and yes it would be much "greener" because of this.
I love the Aptera for this reason. Carbon fiber and aluminum. This vehicle will be around for a long time. Think of all the energy wasted in car plants every year changing over for new models.
That’s one thing that I’m excited about with Aptera is their commitment to making repair manuals and parts specs available online. Means 3rd party parts can be made as well.
I closely watched the Edison2 Very Light Car from the Automotive X Prize. I love super efficient vehicles and Aptera is the only one who seems to keep it alive.
Let's hope your optimism turns Aptera into THE market leader. Glad to see they are branching out with the airline pushback tugs and luggage carts and the camper covering collaboration. We need Aptera to get into further daily mechanisms of life to build their footprint, technology and impact.
When it comes to all of Aptera's components, battery, motors, and solar cells, there is a lot more that is important than just flat performance, i.e. range. Aptera is also concerned about cost, robustness, and mass production scalability. A lot of their technology wasn't around 20 years ago, and it will be vastly improved 20 years from now. I stead of going wil the most advanced components, Aptera seems to be going with what is tried and proven. The battery technology has been around since the start of Tesla, at least, and both the motors and solar cells appear to be advanced, but well established. We still need to see what is going on with Elaphe, but we can certainly talk about Maxeon. It's my impression Maxeon is ahead of the curve, getting far more than 20% efficiency. More like 24%. 35% is still a big leap forward, But Aptera also has to consider robustness. The new cells do say they are flexible, and Aptera's lamination method may make them just as durable, but there's also the question of whether panels can continue to operate when they get damaged. Since all of these technologies are new, I think they're something we'll see Aptera use in 10 or 20 years. But then, Aptera can make do with older technology because of the efficiency of the rest of the body, and its aerodynamics. The weight may even help it a bit, since other wise it might be lighter than drivers are expecting.
The best "efficiency" change aptera could make is the introduction of heavier, longer lasting and more commodity LFP or sodium batteries. Due to the amazing base design Aptera is highly efficient even with the industries battery scraps; now we need to make it cheap. I understand the benefit of a halo model to show off and amprius could definitely let them do that but for practical vehicles for the average consumer they need to find ways to get even cheaper (especially given the lack of tax credit)
The average American consumer spends more then $40,000 on a new car. I'm not sure they need to be cheaper for the average consumer. They need to be cheaper for people who are frugal and on low incomes.
No. The Amprius battery does not "pack 500 kilowatts of power in a kilogram". Learn the difference between power and energy (and scale!). It's 500 Watt-Hours per kg. Watt-Hours is a common unit for ENERGY. It "packs" 500 watt-hours (0.5 kwatt-hours) per kilogram of ENERGY.
Show us the production line or take us for a spin in the prototype. Advances in battery and solar cells are very slow which makes me a bit skeptical after watching this video.
The charge rate of the Amprius battery is not yet of any value to the EV industry because we have no chargers capable of feeding that much energy at one time. That would be enough electricity to bring Frankenstein's monster to life.
Very true. Interesting as a halo of whats possible but most people will be fine even with level 1 for Aptera home charging. We need butts in seats and that requires cheaper cars rather than show pieces.
Still a year away and that's if your being an optimist. Late 2025 early 2026 is the most likely scenario. I wish it was much much sooner however. Even the PI models being made now are being made to slowly for my liking. I struggle with being patient.
Is YAS featuring their motor or the music. When are presenters going to learn that music that puts the narration in the background is unprofessional. Just less the music out. It greatly detracts from videos!
Solar can not put more in a battery because the battery is different, Current batteries already absorb (almost) all the energy that is produced by solar...
@@johnreeves7261 If the solar delivers 700watt, 700watt is also the most possible that can be absorbed by a battery. At least according to Einstein I know this channel is called free power, but eh, that does not exist
@@shrimptopian3392 "700 watts" is a time rate of energy transfer. It's literally 700 Joules of energy transferring from the solar to the battery every second. It has little to do with the energy storage capacity of the battery. A bigger capacity battery means more ENERGY can be put into it by the solar. I'm beginning to think you have no clearer understanding of energy and power as this video's creator....
@@shrimptopian3392 If the different battery has more energy storage then they can get more ENERGY from the 700peakwatt solar system into the battery. God you're dumb and dense.....
No. Hybrid Perovskite/Silicon is NOT yet commercialized and "available for purchase". No. it won't double Aptera's solar range. Do facts matter anymore?
40 solar miles a day is already outstanding. Hybrid solar will become available, this video is about the future, then the Aptera has 60 solar miles a day.
@@koenraad4618 Fact: This video is not ALL about the future. Fact: It's not "40 miles a day" it's POSSIBLY UP TO 40 miles a day in a sunny climate. Fact: Hybrid is NOT available now. Opinion: 60 miles a day in anything but the DISTANT future is laughable.
The long term success of any EV in my opinion will be determined by upgradability, we need to stop thinking about disposable cars. once you have a platform (Body) being able to swap batteries , motors, controllers, and upgrade software on the fly as technology advances would be a smart and practical investment. and yes it would be much "greener" because of this.
I love the Aptera for this reason. Carbon fiber and aluminum. This vehicle will be around for a long time. Think of all the energy wasted in car plants every year changing over for new models.
That’s one thing that I’m excited about with Aptera is their commitment to making repair manuals and parts specs available online. Means 3rd party parts can be made as well.
I closely watched the Edison2 Very Light Car from the Automotive X Prize. I love super efficient vehicles and Aptera is the only one who seems to keep it alive.
Thanks for sharing! 😎
Sure does
Let's hope your optimism turns Aptera into THE market leader. Glad to see they are branching out with the airline pushback tugs and luggage carts and the camper covering collaboration. We need Aptera to get into further daily mechanisms of life to build their footprint, technology and impact.
I will not fall for this anymore. I won't believe ANY new battery technology claim till it's available to consumers PERIOD
I agree with you 100%
I do hope its true but I need to see it to believe it when it comes to new battery and solar tech.
When it comes to all of Aptera's components, battery, motors, and solar cells, there is a lot more that is important than just flat performance, i.e. range. Aptera is also concerned about cost, robustness, and mass production scalability. A lot of their technology wasn't around 20 years ago, and it will be vastly improved 20 years from now.
I stead of going wil the most advanced components, Aptera seems to be going with what is tried and proven. The battery technology has been around since the start of Tesla, at least, and both the motors and solar cells appear to be advanced, but well established. We still need to see what is going on with Elaphe, but we can certainly talk about Maxeon.
It's my impression Maxeon is ahead of the curve, getting far more than 20% efficiency. More like 24%. 35% is still a big leap forward, But Aptera also has to consider robustness. The new cells do say they are flexible, and Aptera's lamination method may make them just as durable, but there's also the question of whether panels can continue to operate when they get damaged.
Since all of these technologies are new, I think they're something we'll see Aptera use in 10 or 20 years. But then, Aptera can make do with older technology because of the efficiency of the rest of the body, and its aerodynamics. The weight may even help it a bit, since other wise it might be lighter than drivers are expecting.
Let’s Go Aptera!!
The best "efficiency" change aptera could make is the introduction of heavier, longer lasting and more commodity LFP or sodium batteries. Due to the amazing base design Aptera is highly efficient even with the industries battery scraps; now we need to make it cheap. I understand the benefit of a halo model to show off and amprius could definitely let them do that but for practical vehicles for the average consumer they need to find ways to get even cheaper (especially given the lack of tax credit)
The average American consumer spends more then $40,000 on a new car. I'm not sure they need to be cheaper for the average consumer.
They need to be cheaper for people who are frugal and on low incomes.
The problem with new tech, is not the science,it’s mass production ability.😊
500W not 500KW per KG. That's several orders of magnitude difference. 4:37.
We just need Amprius technology batteries to empower next EV generation
No. The Amprius battery does not "pack 500 kilowatts of power in a kilogram". Learn the difference between power and energy (and scale!). It's 500 Watt-Hours per kg. Watt-Hours is a common unit for ENERGY. It "packs" 500 watt-hours (0.5 kwatt-hours) per kilogram of ENERGY.
This guy is not a Einstein, literally
I have multiple thousands into ampx technologies.
George Davis
That company is going to make megabucks ! 😎
Show us the production line or take us for a spin in the prototype. Advances in battery and solar cells are very slow which makes me a bit skeptical after watching this video.
The charge rate of the Amprius battery is not yet of any value to the EV industry because we have no chargers capable of feeding that much energy at one time. That would be enough electricity to bring Frankenstein's monster to life.
I know I will not need that much power . 😎
Lol
Very true. Interesting as a halo of whats possible but most people will be fine even with level 1 for Aptera home charging. We need butts in seats and that requires cheaper cars rather than show pieces.
Aptera needs to dtart delivery now
Still a year away and that's if your being an optimist. Late 2025 early 2026 is the most likely scenario.
I wish it was much much sooner however. Even the PI models being made now are being made to slowly for my liking. I struggle with being patient.
Is YAS featuring their motor or the music. When are presenters going to learn that music that puts the narration in the background is unprofessional. Just less the music out. It greatly detracts from videos!
I would buy this if it qualified for tax credit
500 Wh/kg does not mean 500 Kilowatts per Kilogram.
This video's creator is really, really lacking in the technical know-how of things.....
Let’s start asking about the off-road option for the 1000 mile range
Solar can not put more in a battery because the battery is different,
Current batteries already absorb (almost) all the energy that is produced by solar...
If we're talking about ENERGY and the different battery has more capacity, solar can, most definitely, put more in.
@@johnreeves7261
If the solar delivers 700watt, 700watt is also the most possible that can be absorbed by a battery.
At least according to Einstein
I know this channel is called free power, but eh, that does not exist
@@shrimptopian3392 "700 watts" is a time rate of energy transfer. It's literally 700 Joules of energy transferring from the solar to the battery every second. It has little to do with the energy storage capacity of the battery. A bigger capacity battery means more ENERGY can be put into it by the solar. I'm beginning to think you have no clearer understanding of energy and power as this video's creator....
Whatever, mr free power stated that with a different battery they could get more from the 700peakwatt solar system, which is of course utter b**sh*t
@@shrimptopian3392 If the different battery has more energy storage then they can get more ENERGY from the 700peakwatt solar system into the battery. God you're dumb and dense.....
Vaporware plain and simple. They promised me a car in 2019 and ya'll out here talking about upgrades. Get real.
No. Hybrid Perovskite/Silicon is NOT yet commercialized and "available for purchase". No. it won't double Aptera's solar range. Do facts matter anymore?
Referral codes matter, he thinks they will give them a few free Aptera’s/!!
40 solar miles a day is already outstanding. Hybrid solar will become available, this video is about the future, then the Aptera has 60 solar miles a day.
@@koenraad4618 Fact: This video is not ALL about the future. Fact: It's not "40 miles a day" it's POSSIBLY UP TO 40 miles a day in a sunny climate. Fact: Hybrid is NOT available now. Opinion: 60 miles a day in anything but the DISTANT future is laughable.
Aptera is a bad joke. Meanwhile, dozens of huge Chinese companies are churning out EV's by the 100k and are 10 years ahead in technology.
Beer Stein already has a Chinese EV, "so ahead in time", I probably purchase an Aptera. Do you work for the wallstreet J btw, mr. Stein?