This.

Amazon doesn't deliver to most rural addresses - they just ship it via USPS. Amazon simply cannot replace USPS with their existing infrastructure. Heck, I'm not exactly "rural" and most of my Amazon deliveries come by USPS or UPS, not by Amazon delivery vehicles.

And I fight for the users.

Disclaimer: I am an "EV enthusiast". I currently own another electric trike, an Arcimoto FUV. I also own a Rivian R1T electric pickup and a Ford Mach-E.

I've had a deposit in for an Aptera for years, and I'm one of the "small investors" who has stock in them.

At this point, I'm assuming that my deposit and my investment won't ever produce anything for me.

I hope they succeed, even if I wasn't an investor and deposit-holder. The idea may be kind of silly, and absolutely not for everyone (neither are motorcycles.) But they're always begging for more money to actually start production, and always failing to raise as much as they say they need.

At this point, I imagine the first few dozen vehicles will be delivered to the "high value investors", but that true large-scale production won't happen.

On the technical front - yes, the solar panels are largely a gimmick. Maybe if you always park outside in somewhere terminally sunny like SoCal, Arizona, or Florida, it might make it so that you never have to plug it in; but in most areas, it will make a small dent on your charging needs. The big "selling point" is the extreme efficiency. There are a few ways to measure EV efficiency. The EPA uses "Miles Per Gallon equivalent" or MPGe to rate EVs. By their measure, the most efficient vehicle is the Lucid Air Pure, at 146 MPGe. My Rivian is rated at 73 MPGe.

Most EVs measure efficiency in either "miles per kWh" (one gallon of gasoline contains 33.7 kWh of energy, so an easy conversion is to take this number and multiply by 33.7 to get the "MPGe") or "Watt-hours per mile" (inverted, so a lower number is better, this is similar to what many metric countries use for gas vehicles - liters per 100 km where a lower number is better.) That Lucid Air Pure gets about 4.3 miles per kWh of energy, or about 230 Wh/mi.

Aptera claims 10 miles/kWh / 100 Wh/mi. That is more than double the efficiency of the most efficient "full size" vehicle. My Arcimoto FUV, a similar "two seater three wheel EV" gets about 5 mi/kWh in mixed city/non-interstate-highway driving. The Arcimoto is great for city driving, and while it is absolutely capable of highway driving, it isn't very aerodynamic so its efficiency drops like a brick on the freeway. The Aptera _IS_ aerodynamic, so should be much more efficient on the highway.

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You know what people will remember about this company in a decade?

Their name.

Uh McAfee the person hasn't had anything to do with McAfee the company in a couple decades.

I mean, if this isn't the most McAfee thing ever, I don't know what is.

Half are "HOW PETTY! THIS IS WHY WE LEFT!"

The other half are "Makes total sense, we didn't want to be a part of them."

Well, that didn't age well.

Obviously he isn't getting thrown out of office (unless they hold ANOTHER impeachment, since he was just acquitted in this one.)

At this point, I'd vote for a ham sandwich if it was the option with (D) after the name in November...

"Flying cars" really depends on your definition. We'll never have Back to the Future or Blade Runner style "primary ground vehicles that can also fly". The currently-under-development "readable aircraft" I'm 90% sure will actually start deliveries this decade, though. And small self-flying air taxis are probably inevitable, too; although I'd say "this decade" is a stretch.

"Self driving cars will be everywhere" also depends on your definition of both "self driving" and "everywhere." Limited self driving are ALREADY all over the place. But if you mean 100% level 5 autonomy no human driver required in any circumstances - no. I give it a decent shot that there will be full production vehicles with "just shy of" it by the end of the decade, but they won't be even half of all new cars made in 2029, much less "everywhere/most cars on the road." But that last 1% of self-driving will be a ridiculously tough nut to crack.

Facebook, Google, Amazon each broken up - zero chance of all three being broken up by government entities. I'd say 50/50 that one of them breaks up due to market forces, and about 1-in-3 that *one* of them is broken up by a governmental order. And about 1-in-10 that one of them completely goes under (or is bought out by a different company.)

Human on Mars - The most definitive of the statements, either a human lands on Mars by the end of the decade or not. I'm certain that a human will land on Mars "soonish", but by the end of the decade is pretty much the close cutoff. Much as SpaceX/Boeing's Commercial Crew is *JUST* missing out on the 2010s decade, it's very reasonable that human Mars landing will slip to *JUST* in to the 2030s. But I could also very reasonably see it happening this decade. Possibly even mid-decade (2024-2026.)

Then there was the absolutely ridiculous, not at all meant to be taken seriously Cowboy Neal option.

Agree.

Apple makes a ton of money on selling you devices, and taking a cut of media purchases you make from those devices.

They don't need to make money making *YOU* the product to advertisers. So they can have that as a differentiation point.

I use cases for either utility (wallet cases, cases with a "kickstand" for setting on the table watching videos,) or style. I gave up on "protective" cases long ago.

I switch cases either when I need the utility, or when the mood suits me. None of my cases (other than a battery case, and I don't even have one for my current phone) cost over $15. So I have multiple. For my current phone, I have five cases. A leather, a wood (just the backplate, the "mounting" part of the case is rubber/plastic,) two different style of wallet cases (one that closes over the screen and holds more cards, one that just holds a couple cards behind the phone,) and a clear-with-kickstand case.

Right now, I have the wood-back case on it. It's been on it for two days. I'll probably switch to one of the wallet cases tomorrow. (Yes, I also have three cheap wallets - I try to keep a minimal wallet at all times; I swap between one small wallet and using a wallet phone case, with the "extra" cards in a separate wallet just to hold those that I only carry when I'm pretty sure I'll need one of the extra cards.)

The scam calls are all spoofed and untraceable anyway. These companies have zero accountability as it is, what will upping the fine do?

Been a season ticket holder for a long time. At first it was books of paper tickets, as expected.

Then they moved to a "Season Ticket Holder card" for season ticket holders, still individual printed tickets otherwise. Yeah, you could buy them via the website and get PDFs for single tickets. The STH card had a single barcode. Obviously if you copied that barcode, you could get in all season. I "leased out" one of my season tickets to someone else, gave them the card, but kept a photocopy of the bar code. Any games they couldn't attend, I could bring a friend.

Last year, they moved to "electronic ticketing" for season tickets. Yes, you could choose to email yourself a PDF of the ticket to print out (there was no mechanism to print them from the desktop website nor the mobile app,) but they pushed hard to use your phone only. The "neutral site" championship game last year was here, and our team made it to it. Annoyingly, they had no special tickets for it. If you wanted physical tickets, you had to email PDFs then print those.

So I made my own special tickets. Photoshopped up what I thought they should look like, making sure to include all the relevant details from the real PDFs, including printing the three paragraphs of disclaimers on the back. Printed them on thick stock glossy "brochure paper", had no problems in the stadium with them.

I spent the next day making fun of it online and in person.

When I got home, I brought it up to my (not-nerd, farm-girl) wife. She said "Oh, yeah, it seems great, I put down a deposit!" /me facepalmed.