jesse-spears
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It will be directly replacing my 2018 Nissan Leaf, which was my daily commuter pre-pandemic (I only leave the house once or twice a week these days).
But it will also be taking over road trip duties when it’s just my wife and I (currently we drive her 2014 Prius, which we’ll likely be replacing with a 2022 Prius).
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Wheel, preferably roundish (the rounded rectangle is probably acceptable, but I’ve never driven with a non-round wheel before).
I do NOT want drive by wire. Having driven cars that cut power while driving*, if they had used drive by wire, I would have wrecked them.
* I’ve had this happen in 3 different cars over my lifetime. One was a bad fuel system (happened when turning sometimes, but it was my first car and it was better than not having a car ;). The other 2 were cars that had electrical problems (one off problems, but they lost power while driving).
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3rd seat option, preferably in the center right behind the current seats.
V2G would be a nice to have option, if it could be done cheaply (there are options now for ChaDemo, but they are way too expensive).
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I owned a 2001 Honda Insight with the 5 speed manual transmission. It was an awesome car to drive, and the mileage was still far above any other gas burning car we’ve ever owned. I made a road trip through the Rockies that was over 72 MPG, and lifetime I think I had something around 68 MPG. It was also fun to drive (very “tossable” due to the lightweight and basically 50/50 weight distribution. It wasn’t fast though, with 0-60 times up in the 10.5 second range, but it was super quick off the line and 0-30 speed was quite fast (because you could hit 30 at redline in first gear :). My dad gave it the nickname of “silver bullet” (which I might reuse for my Luna Aptera).
We’ve also owned several Priuses (Prii?): A first gen, a second gen, and we still own a third gen from 2014. Not exciting, but decent mileage and very dependable. The 2014 is a very nice road trip car, with the full tech package and “Dynamic Cruise Control” (Level 1 autonomous driving).
And I’ve been driving Nissan Leafs since 2011 (leased a 2011, then leased a 2014, and currently own a 2018). I love the E-Pedal in the 2018, and the “ProPilot” is pretty good (Level 2 autonomous). These are great city cars, good for commuting and driving in the metro area (the 2018 has about 145 miles range after 3 years, although I’ve put less than 1000 miles on it since the start of the pandemic, so it might not be typical).
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Will the Aptera require the Comma hardware on top of what’s built into the Aptera?
That is, is this an add on, or is this what “Safety Pilot” is actually using?