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Sono Motors F-1
- stefan_ 5y agoThe vaporware lives on.
- djanogo 5y agoSeems more like "Stock Photo Motors", can't believe we are in a economy where company's like this can IPO.
- wffurr 5y agoThe solar panels seem like a gimmick. Way less power than a rooftop installation. It might make some sense for an occasional car user like me. Most of the time my Bolt sits in the driveway, charged, waiting to be used. But for a commuter or daily user, it seems silly. You'll be unplugged away from the house most of the day and grid-charging overnight. Maybe you get a bit of extra power in the battery from the panels, but I'd rather have a cheaper vehicle that didn't have them. There's some other weird stuff in their Wikipedia entry, like a moss (!) based air filtration system. It also seems bold to have a public offering when they've never even shipped a vehicle to a customer. Is this a real thing? What's the story here?
- quequeque 5y agoFrom their website, the moss is not living and should be replaced at the same time as the air filtration system. https://sonomotors.com/en/faq/innovations/ https://sonomotors.com/en/faq/innovations/
- mangecoeur 5y ago> It also seems bold to have a public offering when they've never even shipped a vehicle to a customer. Rivian did the same thing and everyone seems to be creaming themselves over it.
- wffurr 5y agoI think there's a bunch of real-life Rivians out there driving around, aren't there? Anyway, "someone else did it", doesn't seem like a ringing endorsement...
- stefan_ 5y agoI guess the Rivian at least has some theoretical appeal? Like, here the plan is to build a shitbox that isn't competitive on the market even 2 years ago.
- erik_seaberg 5y agoThey cited apartments as a target market; no garage means no charging. Unfortunately they’re talking about 112 km per week, which just doesn’t seem like a solution.
- Rebelgecko 5y agoMaybe it's regional, but where I live most apartment-dwellers have covered parking (so presumably much less than 112km/week of sun)
- mikestew 5y agoThe solar panel roof bullshit again? I should make this a keyboard macro, as often as some vaporware EV car company says they're going to put a solar panel on the roof (rather than something useful, like a moonroof). Assume an equivalent to a 200W panel on top (though I'd consider it fortunate if someone could pull off even 100W). Five hours in direct sunlight in optimal conditions will give you a kilowatt hour (kWh). That will carry our '11 Nissan Leaf four (yes, the number 4) whole miles...after five hours in the sun. If you live near the equator, and within a couple miles of your workplace, then a Sonos vehicle might be for you! If you live in the Pacific Northwest and don't live next door to work, can I interest you in a lightly used 2011 Nissan Leaf? Sonos seems to have even gone all-in on the solar thing. "Solar instead of paint", "powered by the sun", which just says to me, "don't look really hard at the details of our offering. Look! Solar panels!"
- olyjohn 5y agoThe sun only puts out something like 1500w per square meter onto the surface of the Earth in perfect conditions. Unless we figure out how to generate more solar power than hits the panels, they'll never work on an average car, even in perfect conditions.
- lgleason 5y agoRelated :) https://www.theonion.com/species-of-blue-green-algae-announces-ipo-1819565387 https://www.theonion.com/species-of-blue-green-algae-announc...
- slownews45 5y agoWow. Zero revenue. $50M per year run rate on loses And already IPO ready. haha.