Miles Added per Charge Hour

If I were traveling I wouldn't want to use L1 or L2 at someone's home unless it was a dire emergency - because it would take HOURS to gain enough charge to continue my journey. I would recommend using some form of route planner to help plan your stops - who knows, Aptera might even build one into their system in the same way that Tesla does theirs! If you're able to charge during an overnight stay you'd simply plan from your starting point to the overnight location and let the planner know how much charge you'd like to have left when you arrive: It will tell you where you'd need to stop to charge and how long each charge should take. Then, the next morning, you'd plan the next leg of your journey with a full charge.

And, yes, it will be the same issue with an Aptera: If you return home with hot batteries and a hot car and pull into your insulated garage the Aptera will radiate heat until stasis is achieved. As I mentioned above, the majority of Li battery chemistries currently in use charge best when the pack temperature is in the mid to upper 70s - but, once charged, the pack would prefer a cooler resting temperature. Both processes - charging and discharging - generate heat.

Depending upon how you plan to get from AZ to NJ there are routes that feature DC charging opportunities but other routes that do not. You're guaranteed coverage if you take the southern route across the Gulf Coast into FL and then head north on 95 or if you head north across TX, AR and then across TN and into NC to take 95. If, however, you try to take 81 through the Smokies (TN, VA, WVa, DE and PA) charging opportunities are few and far between. Only five of the seventeen service plazas on the PA Turnpike offer some form of EV charging via the notoriously unreliable Blink network.

@Kerbe Thanks!

I hope the Aptera battery cooling will help. Doubt the on board solar powered interior ventilation will help there...

I will have to compare to the ICE heat generation and use simple passive measures like opening both of the cross ventilation of the garage windows and the forthcoming

SolaTube installation. But only using after first parking under a nearby mesquite tree to pre cool. At 4200 ‘, we get nice breezes many days.

https://www.solatube.com/home-ventilation-solutions

I am glad my home PV Solar inverter’s heat is outside the garage.

I have wireless thermometers, so... I will place in the engine area and start paying attention to what I have now, monitoring in the late afternoon, before the summer really leaves out! That’s easy

On the other end....It never gets really cold here in winter. If so... short lived.

@Kerbe I'm very much looking forward to when they have locked down the specs and can just tell us what these specs all are. For my long trip purposes, the "100 miles in 10 minutes" works for me. I'll want to stop after about 2 hours of driving to take a short break.. Even at 75 mph, I'll need only 150 miles, or 15 minutes of fast charging time.

@Harry Parker Amen to that, brother! The problem I have is that there is no charging infrastructure between me and most of the places I need to go (unless I'm driving a Tesla). For example, the closest CCS charger between me and Atlanta is 450 miles away - in Atlanta. And when I head to the northeastern states it's by way of Chattanooga - again, 450 miles away and the only CCS location between here and there is IN Chattanooga. So with the 60 kWh Aptera I'd need to spend some serious time charging at those locations. From Chattanooga north there's CCS available pretty much every 200 miles or so... And, if Aptera suffers the same 20% winter range drop as other EVs, I'd still have 480 miles of range with which to play!

Seeing this map, some have "helpfully" pointed-out that I could drive south and take the route across the gulf coast to get to Atlanta but, sadly, that would add an additional 300 miles to the trip.

@Kerbe Wow! You do appear to live in a fast charging desert. The long range Aptera would really make a difference to you. Rural areas across the US still need a lot more fast (non-Tesla) charging infrastructure.

Question: How did you make that map? I use plugshare.com, but I don't see a way to filter for >50kW chargers.

Of course, if Aptera could strike a deal with Tesla to use their Superchargers, that would solve your problem. I've suggested that in a message to Aptera, but got no indication that that was in the plans.

The only good news I can offer is that down south where you live, you won't see a 20% loss in the winter. That's mostly due to cabin heating when it is below freezing outside. Not sure Aptera will offer seat or steering wheel heaters, but if that's an option, that will greatly reduce the need for cabin heating.

However, when going long distances, a practical high speed charging distance is probably from something like 10% to 80% or 70% of full range to keep the charging speed high. For the long range Aptera, that's 700 miles for mid-trip chargers.