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Are people still falling for Aptera's nonsense?

• DivingForGold 2mo ago
  I have been watching this product for at least 10 years. Think I will wait till the first 1,000 roll off the lines before I get interested in plunking down money. I want them to succeed, but too many outfits like this one went broke early.
  • archonis 2mo ago
    The product concept really does need to exist in this world. I just don't think the folks who have taken 50k preorders over the last 20 years and have yet to fulfill one are going succeed.
    • DennisP 2mo ago
      That overstates it a bit. The original Aptera attempted a gasoline-powered vehicle, and went bankrupt in 2011. The current Aptera is a new company founded in 2019, so there's an eight-year gap where the company didn't exist. In the middle of that gap someone else bought the IP and did nothing with it, but they were different folks.
      • dnautics 2mo ago
        there was an electric variant proposed, i think, but no solar panels.
  • MisterStone 2mo ago
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