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Fan Art for Aptera Sedan, Crossover, Truck, Van, Etc
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I created a rough design for a small aerodynamic vehicle (2 seat, 4 wheel, narrower “European” version if you will) based on some of the solar racers. Thoughts?
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This reply was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by Peter Jorgensen.
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If they add a 4th wheel they don’t need to narrow for europe (standards atleast). For europe if they eliminate the center console and pull the wheel pods ~1 inch each they can be under 2m with the current three wheel design (alternatively a narrower center console and worse aerodynamics with 2.5 inch closer wheels). Given smaller market the pack physical layouts would need to be mounted differently and be smaller (perhaps no 1000 mile). They obviously would want to reuse as much of the current vehicle as possible.
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Yeah – this is a totally different design based on the solar racer design (Which is actually super skinny and tall but looks better in that side picture).
Also, it might be worth building a 1+2 seating layout with a center driver position for some of these ideas.
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I would expect the european version to be as close as possible and using as many of the same parts as possible. While these designs are interesting I would expect then to make as subtle of changes that they can.
Your designs are definitely a potential direction for things in future vehicles although I’m not sure how effectively suspension can operate in such a design. Solar racers don’t care about real world suspension or turning radius.
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True – A lot of this sort of thing would be dependent on movable wheel covers (Like used in the Ecomodding community) to get the wheel articulation needed. It will be interesting to see what develops in the future.
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How about an APTERA Riff on the Nissan Deltawing Design? Single-Seater
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A sedan design! The offroad/crossover and Sedan share the same body – the only difference is wheel size and lift. There are also two versions – A “Wagon” with a tall tail and a “sedan” with a thin tail. All are 4 door 4/5 seat with a generous trunk.
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The Offroad Spec Wagon
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A van design – Shared body and suspension with the truck. Can come from the same mold with the same doors, shell, wheel fairings, etc.
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The Offroad Spec Van and Truck – Shared suspension and body shape between truck and van. The truck has an accordian style rear solar cover on the bed – just like the EdisonFuture truck.
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A standard truck design – Shared shape, suspension, etc with the van. Showcasing a solar bed cover like the EdisonFuture.
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A general overview of some various truck and van configurations including trailers.
Cybertruck for scale.
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A small bus platform – Useful for long range delivery vehicles, RVs (Showing foldout solar hatches) and even small RV trailers.
The trailer uses the same body, doors, etc as the bus and other platforms to reduce the number of molds needed. -
A massive earthroamer. This is the midsized bus platform with bigger tires, more clearance, and a chunky spare strapped to the back. Foldout solar hatches could be included also.
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Just add the rocket launchers and …….
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I thought I read that the air is too dirty behind the front wheels to support this design for the back wheels at anything close to the efficiency of the current design
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What do y’all think of the GAC space concept?
https://www.motor1.com/news/596216/gac-space-concept-hydrogen-van/
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Any possibility of making a sedan design that uses wheels on struts for the front, as the original does, and possibly back?
Edit: a fun modification to your larger designs would be a retractable rear diffuser like the Mercedes EQXX concept
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This reply was modified 3 weeks, 3 days ago by Matt Gleason.
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Wheels on struts – as in external pod wheels in pants like on the Aptera?
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I doubt it. To be more practical as a family vehicle they will likely use more standard designs queues (probably a “hot hatch”). Really good aero wheels could help. I expect a design akin to the old Mercedes-Benz bionic (box fish inspired) to maximize drag coefficient without major waste of space. 88inches wide is a controversial limitation of the current design (catfish inspired).
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Don’t know why they would do that. One of their biggest issues with the current design is width.