According to the company Aptera, 48,000 motorists have already ordered the three-wheeled electric car that most resembles a small glider. However, production has been postponed several times.
You have probably never heard of Aptera. Still, the company behind it, which is simply called Aptera, claims that 48,000 drivers have already pre-ordered their car.
This is what InsideEVs writes.
That is, a small, three-wheeled electric car that most of all resembles a glider. The crazy thing is that the car does not exist as anything other than some computer drawings and a concept.
At least not yet. Production has also been postponed several times since Aptera first presented the concept to the world under the name Typ-1 in 2007.
On the other hand, Aptera maintains that the electric car will be able to cover 1,600 kilometers on a charge when it first comes on the market. Right now, the goal is to start production in 2025.
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The consumption is, says Aptera, about half of a Tesla Model 3, which is already among the most energy-efficient electric cars on the market at all.
Since the small car brand, which is headquartered in California but wants the battery packs built in Slovenia of all places, it reported 'tremendous interest' in the SEV.
In August of the same year, the management at Aptera said that the car was almost finished. And that the plan was a series production at the end of the year. It just never happened. Nothing happened in 2023 either, and now it looks like the project will be at a standstill for the whole of 2024 as well.
This, although the small car brand claims that 48,000 motorists have already pre-ordered their copies. That should be enough to bring in Aptera 12 billion Danish kroner. Still, the management claims that they need just over DKK 410 million to get production started at all.
However, several of InsideEVs' readers have noticed that something about the project is more mysterious than good. Some even believe that the whole thing 'stinks far away'.
– I wish them all the best, but the Aptera project stinks far from Fisker Inc., writes a reader.
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