I live in CA and I’m diabetic. If it gets to the point where I get denied medical insurance because I have a preexisting condition then I might have to bail.

The song they linked was from 1966, so you realize it’s not actually about you, right?

Stop that.

Pretty much what I expected/assumed.

Aptera claims to be able to get 40 miles a day via solar. Most people drive less than that per day.

You should actually watch their videos and do some research before spewing your speculations. Seems like it’s going to be pretty safe to me.

Their tech isn’t just the solar, they’ve optimized the car solely for efficiency. They claim their car can get 10 mi/kwh, so with 700W of solar panels they can get up to 40 miles of charge per day with just the solar. By contrast, the solar panels that are available on the new Prius get 4 miles of charge per day.

Now that their production-intent vehicles are just starting to be built up, I’m eagerly awaiting their actual test data that hopefully verifies their claims on efficiency, range, crash safety, etc. but we’ll see 🤞 I really hope they succeed.

Lots of people here criticizing Aptera who clearly haven’t researched the company or the tech.

They had these in a game I used to play, I wanna say Sim City 2000? It was called a microwave power plant and I think occasionally the beam coming to Earth would miss the power plant and start a fire, but my memory’s a bit fuzzy.

Holy shit that’s a real thing

I miss my LG Alias 2

I wish I was more disciplined/focused.

Ohhh ok thanks, well TIL still

TIL Jamiroquai is a white dude band with a white dude as the singer

Nobody wants Russia* to have nuclear weapons.

Lmao

Please don’t insult the rats, they’re good little critters

Doesn’t sound so bad to me

Secret drone unit that I just found out about on youtube

I do spend a lot of time edging.