llewellyn-evans
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Aptera in one word : Revolution
1. Drive without damaging the planet.
2. Sexy
3. Affordable
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The Aptera has to be saleable to the largest number of people.
Most people want reliability, economy, off the mark acceleration and a reasonably high top speed. The current setup seems to have an excellent balance. Plenty of acceleration 0-60mph in 3.5 seconds. Plenty of speed if you don’t want to lose your drivers license. Unparalleled fuel economy.
The car is right how it is.
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Electromagnetic shock absorbers. Turn all that lovely energy lost in shock absorbers back into battery power. Back in 2015 they were 65% efficient. According to the article they were generating between 100W and 400W on normal roads (more on rough roads). If you drove for 1000Km, it could give you around one days worth of solar …. 60Km…… more on rough roads. Is that worth while?????
https://www.eenewseurope.com/news/shock-absorber-harvests-energy-cars-suspension.
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Training mode – where only 50% power is available to learner drivers or …. to stop your mechanic hooning in your Aptera.
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Storage mode. Do you mean like a master switch on the battery?
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Turning off regen in an Aptera will be a totally different experience to any other EV because the drag coefficient is so low. She is going to keep going much faster than any PA (Pre-Aptera) EV. Down hill with no regen will be like being on a street luge.
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Panels that curve in one direction are not a problem. I think he mentioned the curve being a compound curve ….. can’t just bend a flat cell into a compound curve without big strain. Hence the comment in the video about delamination and longevity. Perhaps smaller cells with a simple curve and cast the compound curve into the encapsulent to achieve the correct surface shape. Could help in some future Aptera product, after everything is up and running. Just spitballing.
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Pushing a compound curve into a cell may affect the band gap energy.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/sony-creates-curved-cmos-sensors-that-mimic-the-eye
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That means it can impact efficiency of the solar panel.
Could somebody who is a bigger nerd than me please post something? I can hear crickets.
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Yes. Sexy.
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It is a MASSIVE 3d printer. Look how far the bed goes beyond the curtain. I also notice some big prints behind the curtain …. wonder what they are.
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I don’t have a garage and there is no trees in front of my house. We get lots of sun almost all day because we are on the top of a hill.
Having solar panels on the car makes perfect sense for some situations ….. and not for others.
