I just read a theory about why Elon made the offer of opening up the Supercharger network to other makers. The Biden administration wants to spend $15B on charging infrastructure. As long as the Supercharger network is a private network Tesla won't get a penny of that money but if they serve other brands they would qualify. Adding CCS plugs, credit card readers, screens would completely destroy the Supercharger experience not to mention that adding load in the places where demand is already extremely high, I'm looking at you California, would be most unwelcome to Tesla owners. However if Tesla licenses their connector and charging software to Aptera and gives them access to the Supercharger network they've satisfied the requirement that they aren't exclusive. Aptera can't produce enough vehicles to put a strain on the Supercharger network, if they build 10,000 in their first year of production they'll be doing great. Aptera, unlike the legacy auto makers, want's to use the Tesla connector, it would be a huge win for them. Even if there is a substantial license fee the benefit of getting access to the only network that has nationwide coverage would increase their appeal immensely. But if this theory is correct there might not be a big license fee, the money will come out of the taxpayers pocket not Aptera's.
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If you had a 150kw dc fast charge, theoretically the Aptera could charge a 100kw battery to full in 40 minutes and a 40 kw battery in just over 15 minutes. (FYI, I know the transfer of power slows as one exceeds 80 percent of soc.)
The point is when you consider the range provided - 1000 miles - is impossible in a fossil fuel car unless it is a mighty high mpg model with an enormous tank of none exist.
A 400 mile theoretical transfer of power on an Aptera in roughly 15-20 minutes (using the 1000 mi battery because of the rapid 30 -70 percent SOC level that 400 miles represents) is literally as fast a transfer of power as gasoline. I think that has the oil industry spooked so they publish articles like this one that suggest that there won't be enough batteries and the sky is falling.
Well, the sky is falling on ICE cars and I see that article exaggerating the potential of a battery shortage. Frankly, you don't encounter shortages of a commodity like battery storage in a market where the cost of a battery pack continues to decline year over year to the point it will soon be below $100/kwh.
More importantly though, because of right to repair and the flexibility that Aptera offers for alteration, for all we know it will be the first vehicle in which solid state batteries or even the solid inert hydrogen fuel cell system that is activated by a laser appear. .