As a guy who has built a three wheeled solar car with middle schoolers in 1988 that was the DOE best educational project in the U.S. in 1988 and displayed for 6 weeks at the Smithsonian, I think your company and Tesla would have a great fit due to the innovation factor. I hope you make it into mass production. Jonathan Cole
Yes, I agree. I like the right to repair. Hope they have good service manuals available and a great parts department.
Hopefully they can find other funding. I'm on board with the right-to-repair philosophy of the Aptera. Tesla's walled-garden is so offputting that I won't buy one of their cars even though I think they have the technologically superior product in the industry.
Having founded numerous companies, the hardest thing is to be under capitalized, because any glitch in the economic conditions can cause an otherwise great company to fail. Between 1900 and now there have been over 4000 car manufacturers. Many of them had great ideas and innovations. Unfortunately when a great innovative company goes bust, their best ideas are lost. It is necessary to have a strategy that allows the company to survive. If the innovators are too egotistical to figure out alliances and partnerships then there only hope is luck to survive the reality of an ever changing product ecosystem. One of my companies involved collector car restorations and I can say with certainty that most innovative companies usually lost the race even though their products were superior to other companies of their time.
Hope Chris and Steve have taken EM's words to heart when he said that making one of something is easy, but making a million of them is hard.
Bad idea. Steve and Chris would do best to keep full control of the company. When you lose the visionaries, you lose the vision (and the product).
Using Tesla’s charging infrastructure though, would be a wonderful thing.
Not the best idea. Partnership maybe for charging, but its better to have companies other then Tesla innovating in the space. Monopolies are also not always a good idea.
I think it would be like Chrysler buying AMC and having AMC disappearing. I fear the Aptera would never happen and Tesla would just buy them for their technology.
Actually, I heard that Tesla is not big on three wheelers. Sandy Munro, a big Tesla promoter is. The Aptera with solar cells and a 1000 mile battery would hardly ever need to be plugged in for charging.
I had this idea, but stricly(strictement) for business! (Kind of joke). Your best way is to grow up with economical partners. One question remains: What about the jump to a real industrial production? One thing is: je vous applaudis! A second:
Abtera available in France : dd/mm/yy
Salut,
The Frog
I don't think I'd want that to happen.