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Aptera completes low-speed drive in its first production-intent solar electric vehicle (electrek.co)
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[–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It will not be cheap. It's going to be the price of an EV + the price of custom shaped solar + the price of R&D + the price of being a niche product and not having the efficiency of scale. It'll be a novelty without any doubt.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Everything takes r and d. Also, it's not "custom solar panels" anymore if you're ordering 10,000 of them. The article stated that supposedly they have a ton of pre orders of sorts. Custom means a one off, or even a few dozen of something. Not thousands.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Everything requires R&D, but doing more things requires more R&D. It's not just an EV, which requires it's own R&D.

    Custom means it has one purpose, not that it's a one-off. No one else will be using the same panels they will be, so they don't benefit from the scale of mass-produced panels (and 10,000 is not a large number even if that's the number they have pre-ordered).

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