Right now one of the big issues in expanding a future three-wheeled Aptera is the geometry of the rear suspension. It hangs off the back of the passenger compartment and is sprung like the rear-wheel of a motorcycle. Extending the cabin of the monocoque composite would imply a corresponding increase in the wheelbase and length of the car.
This video from Elaphe offers a geometry change that could improve the capacity of the passenger cabin without a great increase in the length of the wheelbase (if any).
Yes, and you get three-wheel steering out of this as well.
We all probably don't know (but maybe suspect) the torque-vectored wheels on the front eliminate undesirable characteristics like torque-steer on front-drive cars.
Oh, and if the rear wheel on the Aptera were just mounted like just one of the corners in the above video, you would presumably be able to locate it further behind the passenger cabin and could extend that cabin almost to the front of the rear tire. And, if you added steering (like above) you could offer what, an 8-foot turning circle as the inside front wheel would just spin as the outboard tire and rear wheel turn the Aptera 180 degrees.
This rear-suspension design may have some issues, but if it worked, it might allow the addition of an additional row of seats within the basic iconic design. It is just an idea that might have relevance down the road.
Now that the seat is lowered an inch, which I'm happy they did, I'm hopefull that I can easily put it back up an inch. Just because.
I have always thought there would be no torque-steer with hub motors, even without torque-vectoring.
So I just googled it & apparently torque-steer is caused by unequal-length half-shafts.
Aptera doesn't even HAVE half-shafts! So no torque-steer unless they use torque-vectoring to add it so the average driver feels more comfortable. Hopefully that would only be a user-selected option.
I think aerodynamics are driving the rise of the belly towards the back of the car.