Ingress and egress ... an idea

@spacepilot All amazing fkying machines. many different brands and models jetted me around the world for fifty years!

Time to do my transport in a clean quiet Aptera

@Len Yep, an all electric car like a Tesla or Leaf only go part way. You still have to generate the electricity with possible pollution or other environmental effects and about 1/3 the energy cost of gasoline, or spend thousands on a solar roof/power wall. Our house is not well aligned for solar and has trees shading roof part of the day. Conventional Electrics will also put a strain on the inefficient electrical grid.

My Aptera will have the solar panels and battery on board, and will drive almost entirely for free off the sun except for road trips. Even there using only a fraction of the energy cost of a more conventional electric car. If we get vehicle to grid we could do our normal driving AND be a net energy contributor as well. I could dump most of my battery into the grid, drive 50 miles & 2000’ vertical down to the airport, arrive almost empty, and when I get back a week or 2 later my Aptera will be almost fully charged and ready to drive the 50 miles back up the hill home, with excess left over to sell back to the grid. What a deal.

@spacepilot We don't know how all this vehicle to grid interaction will sort out but one can imagine a venture in a city like New York where an apartment developer targets new grads for his 50 unit building that includes the cars as part of what you're renting.

We all know that most cars just sit there and do nothing 95 percent of the time. This is the time that the Aptera turns into solar energy and as in your scenario, is dumped and sold to the grid after a week of sitting.

Of course the grid's use of batteries in cars is more for electric load leveling but the problem for most apartment dwellers in cities is parking and power access.

So, say our 50-unit building only has parking (with grid connections) for 25 vehicles which are generally available for use on a first-come basis for tenants. Most of the time most of the vehicles will be there sitting, and if they're Aptera's, soaking up energy from the sun meaning that the landlord is selling power, not only from a rooftop array, but the vehicles in the parking lot.

The apartment owner could also have a mix of EVs including, say a couple of Cybertrucks, two or three Model 3's, and possibly other brands of EV with grid connect capability.

Heck, the generation of juice from two-way grid-connected EVs would waiting for dealer sale on a new car lot would probably pay the floor-plan interest providing at least on reason in favor of EVs for dealers. (They hate them now because they don't require the maintenance of an ICE vehicle.)

A more realistic opportunity might be enhanced parking lots that are wired bi-directionally for EVs with the contract stipulation that the lot owner can use and benefit from the top fifteen percent of electric storage of the cars parked in the lot.

While speculating on the future in this manner is pure speculation, the over-riding fact is that we invent the future by imagining the future. Oh there is so much opportunity.

Good for you!

You deserve an Aptera! Like me😉 I am not much younger and..... Who knows... I hope I am around to buy a future Aptera Model too!

I have an early reservation number, if I get mine in 2022 maybe I can report back on this for you. Not with myself but some other senior+!

I hope to do a cross country and we have 95 and 103 yr old parents back there... maybe they would like a ride?! But I think I will have to do some regional long trips first with my Aptera before that long 2500 mi trek!

My old 2006 Honda Civic Si was lower than the Aptera and I did “kind of” drop into that sporty seat, which was like a race car. I did not like the sides of that sport seat, as they where high and my legs use to rub hard against it as I fell hard into place, But once in place.... Man... that hugged me!