Aptera RANGE recalculated + free CALCULATOR download

@scgcon Great idea! I would say "You could enter the min (winter) number of miles shown for your area in the chart BELOW the map at TECH | Aptera_Motors"

I live in Los Angeles and I have run a spread sheet where I enter my real life daily miles in a column. This way I can get a better picture of how Aptera would work for me.

- I started with 500 miles charge (for a 1k mile range Aptera)

- I have driven a total of 913.1 miles from July 1 to Jul 26 2021 (today I drove 205 miles)

- I do not add any home charging miles - As per my spreadsheet, I have driven an average of 35.1 miles per day.

- With a daily solar charge of 25 miles, I still have 236.9 miles left for the rest of the month

I suggest everyone create a spreadsheet to track your daily miles to see some possibilities. You can also use Google Maps that tracks your daily miles for you. Enter a lower than 40 solar miles number daily to reflect an average.

These averaged over the year numbers are apt to be a bit misleading for a lot of folks unfamiliar with the typical huge variability of solar gain from day to day. Even in relatively solar-poor regions, you may go for weeks on end picking up way more PV miles than you expect during the summer. Then during the short, gray days of low sun angle during the winter you may get next to zero for days or weeks. It ought to all balance out over the year, but a year is a long time when you may be having to charge off the grid as if you had no PV on the vehicle at all, a couple times a week for several weeks in there.