Sure you can put down $500 for a reservation (when the sire is working correctly) but that still won’t get you a car you can drive or even a promise of when you will. So continue to hold out and hope they actually make it to market OR go with another manufacturer? I’ve been waiting over 2 years just to hear when they will be selling on the east coast and so far ZIPPO.

I used to own a Prius and I’m seriously giving them another look but I’d rather buy an Aptera. Patience is a good thing, but too much of it goes NOWHERE.
Bob in Fairfax, Va

Aptera may have the best business plan in the world, but that won’t change the fact that battery technology has a long way to go. You can only push the car as far as you have energy to do it with. You don’t even need a “mild” or “somewhat working level” understanding of electric motors to figure this out: all you need is a knowledge of physics!

If I’m proven wrong, and someone suddenly comes out with a breakthrough in batteries that makes it unnecessary to have a narrow cockpit with no room for luggage or passengers, fine, but after hearing of one “breakthrough” after another for the last 30 years, one becomes a bit skeptical.

Ask yourself one question: if the Aptera were gasoline powered, and therefore much lighter, wouldn’t it get awesome mileage? But most people would say, “yeah, but it’s not a real car.” So I’m waiting for the day when a practical EV can compete in overall cost, room, and features with a “dinosaur” with an ICE. I’m afraid it will be a long time.

Oh, and btw, just a quick message to the editor of this article:

You’re obviously not an EV enthusiast. Lemme guess: You like the Tesla Roadster over the Aptera 2e? Here’s a wake-up call: The Roadster costs more than 100,000 clams, and for that price, you don’t even OWN the batteries (which are inferior to Apteras, btw) you LEASE them. But you get to drive fast and trash the planet. woopie! As for there NOT being much appeal for a ‘cessna’ car, have you even READ the forums, or subscribed to Aptera’s newsletter?

If you had, you’d already know that the Aptera 2e has more safety features than a formula 1 racecar. And since it’s built out of composites, it’s MUCH stronger than your precious Tesla Roadster. There are also HUGE rumors that Aptera’s 2e model is a shoe-in to win the Automotive X prize.

Sooo… what you’re saying, as an educated writer, is that although the Aptera 2e combines affordability with high efficiency and superior design, you don’t think it’ll sell because you think it should look like most other box-type cars that waste half their energy pushing air out of the way, am I right? Wow. You should be fired to make way for more innovative, forward thinking minds.

GREAT job, Aptera! Keep up the good work!