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A significant upward price adjustment would put me into the market for other EV’s.

Yoke steering: meh, but does it have to look like a cartoon face?

Wrap: when it goes bad, on goes some Imron so no problem

Resistance heat: I live in FL so no issue. Pet peave for everyone discussing heat pumps… A/C units are, in fact, heat pumps just not reversible cycle heat pumps…should be little difference in weight.

Tesla charge port: Maybe an issue if they dont have a software handshake with Tesla. There are JC to Tesla ac charging adapters so I dont need a Tesla home charger and with that adapter lots of destination L2 chargers are opened up, but it is the realistic use of Tesla fast charge network that has no specifics yet.

Rear camera: please dont put display up where the mirror always goes. I will not have hatch solar (trivial difference in the real world given the best case solar charge and because I will never leave the car out in the sun all day in Florida on a tegular basis). I want a proper mirror for that spot for use with a unobstructed hatch.

No radio head unit: easily rectified in a number of ways so no problem.

No Android Auto: Now THAT is an issue but not a deal breaker.

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“braking efficiency is a non-factor with respect to weight”. Interesting statement given that dividing the vehicle’s weight by the total brake effort, and then multiply the number by 100 to gets one the brake efficiency percentage. In a panic stop, with tire size (and swept area of brakes) being equal, extra weight matters, physics is still in play and it matters at an alarming rate as vehicle speed increases.

With respect to regenerative braking, the motors are the same across weights of battery packs, ergo the energy conversion rate of those motors at maximum remains constant across the battery weight options. So heavier cars, with unchanged motors will regenerative brake differently than lighter cars at the motor’s maximum conversion rate. The bleed-off is finite.

I agree that awd will regeneratively brake differently from FWD (another energy conversion unit , more contact surface). I have no interest in the added cost of AWD though.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by  Edward Odenkirchen.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by  Edward Odenkirchen.

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I opted for 400 miles.

I am in Florida and my house is solar powered with a daily surplus most days. Retired, my daily trips are dhort few and many are run on my electric bike. Winter range is not a consideration, a/c might be an issue but I will wait and see what the power draw looks like in production examples.

I wont be leaving my car out in the driveway all day. Too hot, too much UV damage here in FL. Consequently, solar body panels mean little to me as I already have a solar power source for charging and, worst case, I put a couple or three more panels up and dwarf the car’s supposed solar collection.

As a consequence, it is the efficiency of the Aptera that appeals. So lighter weight is more appealing. Ergo a smaller battery pack is more appealing. Ballancing that, I occasionally might use the Aptera for a modest road trip (something I am gonna have to reevaluate as data on ride quality comes out). I need enough range to get me to a level 2 destination charger for a 300 mile one way leg on an overnight stay. 400 is the sweet spot for me, especially if those are first in the queue😉.

This focus on range always seems silly to me unless you are taking a very large number of long trips. I can’t see lugging around more weight, reducing efficiency, increasing component wear and tear, reducing braking efficiency etc. on every short haul trip fir the promise of a once month or less long road trip.

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What price freedom? No more gas station stops. No more oil changes. Awake every morning to a “full tank” with a simple wall socket charger. Free miles whenever I park outside. Lightness of heart as my local trips are powered by the sun. No more worry about scheduling local errands carefully to pack as much as I can into one gas-burning trip. Cleaner air, cleaner garage.

As I get older, the noise, drama and wrenching associated with operating and maintaining an ICE vehicle is rapidly losing appeal. Aptera frees me to devote my time to other interests.

Can you factor those into a simple cost spreadsheet?