You don't seem to realize that this car has the lowest drag coefficient of a land vehicle. Your side mirrors are as bad as this whole car. They began working on this decades go using a GAS engine, it was not an EV!

It's so great that SOLAR can drive it 45 miles per day but that was not the purpose of making the most efficient car ever. You can have smaller batteries which means they charge faster and it costs less to charge it; a side benefit is bugs don't go splat so it doesn't need as much cleaning. The solar marketing gimmick actually has real results even if they are are minor - but for people like me, it'll save me from plugging it in most the year! I go days at a time without driving and when I do it is not 45 miles; I won't need perfect days of sunlight when I only go out a few times per week.

NOTE: This car does 100 Miles/kWh so you are not getting 5 miles per hour at level 1. I get that on my Leaf which is rarely 5 Miles/kWh (4.5 winter, 4.9 summer) and I do that annoying other drivers who are not paying enough for gas with the wasteful way they drive. I used to hypermile and almost doubled my gas savings.

I ordered a NO solar model of the car but they dropped that option. I asked. we asked. They said it cost them too much to set that up and actually saves me little money over the non-solar covering. Their work on hardened curved PV panels resulted with them inventing and patenting solar tech which will be used in other places (they only have 1 customer for those so far.) Yes they are not the best PV but they are better than other curved panels I've seen over the decades and they are being sold and they won't easily break.

I'd rather pay for more PV on my roof; and if I saved $300 on the car without PV I'd still get it on the car just because it's a cheap upgrade. Lithium batteries do not wear out if you keep them above 60% charge. Worth it. For $1000 extra, I think I'd skip it for house PV which is what their estimated add-on cost was initially. If you have micro-inverters etc. you don't get hit as bad with shading. Me, I wish I could go 1000V and have an inverter which could do a wide voltage range because I think that would handle shading far better. but 600V seems to be peak and everything is geared for lower; and oddly microinverters are more reliable... so I have those.

They reclassified a DIFFERENT group called "Asperger's Disorder" as being the top end of Autism because a few outward traits are shared. Mostly, I think it is because of funding and maybe some politics. The same year they did this (or maybe 2 years) a big study showed proof there is no genetic correlation for Autism and yet it showed there was one for Aspergers. No causal proof except that when you have 0 correlation that is proof it's not the cause. This was the strongest evidence the two are not the same thing with varying degrees. There is nothing you can do to an Apsy to set them into an autistic fit or get their brain scan to go goofy like that.

Asperger's is a DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER in that they grow up in a different order. Their intellectual development comes way sooner than their emotional / social abilities/intelligence. So the child will think at an adult level but emotionally, socially, etc. they move slower and are behind for their age. Around 30 they will be normal except the previous life experience which can't be undone just like growing up in another culture or having unique experiences can't be undone. The perspective is valuable and arguably BETTER than the norm. Having an intellectual lead their emotional impulses and development is arguably far better for the best outcomes in the end (like 30 years; but should be 25 years if we handle things better.)

Treatment for Autism is mitigation and adaptation, it is not developmental. They don't need sheltering from their problem like autistic they need growth they are fully capable of while the Autistic can't grow their way out anymore than a blind person can; they must learn to cope. Fundamentally different. It's not optimal if not possibly harmful to lump the two together. There is actual discussion about it being a mistake and splitting the two apart again; which is great. Science will autocorrect in the long term and the funding and study is there now because of the mistake which I was in support of about 20 years ago even though I was sure it was a mistake and said so ever since.

Tesla was given a massive US government bail out and subsidies.
Aptera was forbidden because Joe Manchin (oil/coal guy) fought hard to ban 2-3 wheel EVs and compromised watered down US modernization efforts. Aptera couldn't get ANY help that GM and Tesla received so they went bankrupt. It took all this time to come back again and then the Pandemic... Now it's going to be another depression hopefully not before they can get a foothold and enough guts to move to a successful country before they go under again.

The car DC fast charges faster than anybody in the USA. You don't need the solar.

The CEO said that offering a solar free car wasn't worth it because the cost savings are negligible and it pays for itself right away. You have to pay to cover the car in SOMETHING and the solar isn't a lot more money; plus it actively does something... which is enough to make a difference.

If it did nothing, it would be a useful marketing gimmick... like we don't spend more money on rear spoilers and other BS to sell cars..

The car is mostly positioned over the front wheels; and is pulled by the front wheels. The little bit the back gets can act like a ski. I plan to find out how it handles a frozen lake this winter (when I should have one.)

ALSO something to note is there are long term studies on batteries and the old style decade old batteries will last forever if you keep them around 60-80%. Obviously 20-80% still applies but you get more than double life 40-80 and probably infinite 60-80. The 20-80 is likely going to prove to outlast the cars before it dies if you can handle having 60-70% capacity before the body rusts apart (likely impossible with Aptera) or you get in an accident.

Charging the battery to keep it from ever going below 20% makes it worth it.

Already done.
They created a classification called "autocycle" specifically for this new type of car. Even Canada has it.

In Trump's America this will be overturned. They just have to shop around to the right crooks and eventually they'll win; luckily it takes time and also it is hard to predict how corrupt a judge will be... Unless they start out clearly corrupt from the beginning and since that is becoming an accepted norm, that time will come. It may take another attempt and after the 3rd trump term; not that he is required, he merely accelerated and demonstrated how incompetent and corrupt America has become, the rest will continue to spiral all on it's own... unless enough good people stand up and it's not been enough so far; I'm sure it will not be enough to counter Russia's influence. Actually Russia can stop because I think it's been pushed beyond the point of return and without a major remediation there is no coming back.

I remember guys who couldn't handle school but getting an educational sex bot probably was the ONLY thing that could have taught them! Seriously, we should have prescriptions for these bots! You ever see an oversexed teenager with perfect grades? (if you think so, then you're misinterpreting over-sexed.)

I'm serious; some kids are simply not ready -- some need major therapy full time not education. If you want a good generic solution with massive success... you take all 12 year old children and replace their year of education with pure therapy work. The vast majority of problems that have the biggest impacts on the most people come from the puberty transition age. Hell, targeted hormone therapy around those years could level off a lot of issues around that span of time as well as align the timing. We do all this sort of biologically management with animals already. Ok, there I blew your minds with some ideas to ponder... though you probably just want to keep thinking about the teacher blow-bots.

Yeah! they don't need to learn ANY math because calculators will do all that for them later!
Seriously, this is the 1980s over again. Do the calculators do it all for you? never happened. Teachers won and we still learned some math despite the calculators; which were limited in their usage, they even had a protest of math teachers at the capital over the problem. A compromise was found. back then.

People are stupid, ignorant, and lack creativity and motivation... already (in USA but it's coming to you.) So now AI is going to compound all of that and make it worse. Idiotocracy is only not going to happen because it's going to get too stupid to even make it as far as the movie optimistically predicted.

I assumed the comment meant that young males need that extra blood sloshing around in their brains moved somewhere else...

They are NOT bad... what measurement matters? They usually make a huge amount of money and get customers even if they lose money they still got more customers/sales than the quality film you put up against it. Marketing gets a majority of the credit in my opinion. A large portion goes to the masses and their popular taste... Yes, it's a formulaic pattern, which is bland and predictable but it also polishes up turds so they are barely tolerable for us; the outliers, while the masses eat it up like it's junk food. If you are not eating polished turds all the time, you do not get sick of it... and maybe you have less experience with actual nourishment so you don't know how shit it is.

As my local democrat officials, and a 3rd party official said to me in person over the years of talking about the matter say: their messaging does not get out to people no matter how good or poor it might be; that is, unless it's a massive screw up. They will give coverage if they crash and it'll help burn them afterwords.

Oh, and I knew a former news director for a major city's local news show... and his job was picking typical news topics from the news feed and sending the couple staff out to follow up if needed. He was yelled at for doing his actual job; because it was supposed to be news about local VIPs and nothing negative about their paying advertisers! You weren't allowed to MAKE news unless it was huge or somebody out of favor (often Dem or 3rd party.) Always had to put an effort for the "other side" for even idiotic ... like UFO nut vs professor or religious idiot vs evolutionary biologist etc. The journalism degree was useless because it conflicted with the job. Also, do not do anything to upset people while they ate diner watching the news. This is why they don't have shouting matches with pundits like cable news fills up time with - they don't shop for outrage bait either. It's bland and even controversies are made bland and the anchor talks of death with a gleam in her eyes.

American cults have significant indirect impacts on the world and we produce the most and house the most of them. Some get exported even. Some do a little good like helping Tom Cruze make some entertaining movies.

But right now, the worst cult is driving up global oil prices.

1. Blockbuster films help fund other films and a lot of people like them enough to have them make money or crash and burn a ton of cash... They shouldn't succeed simply because they have a 30% marketing budget which is ridiculous because of the film's pile of money.

Yes, it makes bland stuff to appeal to the lowest common denominator and they don't have to run their business on massive bets; perhaps if people were not such gullible consumers?? FX doesn't draw people in as much...
Also, those expensive films pay a lot of people to make them although a ton of money is not going to the FX people. The bankable movie stars get too much for their brand. That is on the public... The big unspoken cost is the business managers who take massive profits while probably encouraging the hate on the stars they resent having to pay high wages to. They are also trying to replace every writer, artist, and actor with AI so they can keep all the money for themselves. Think it's bad now? Wait until they have zero push back from their interference which is the biggest reason films suck today. The formula committee and exec producer created shit that ruined everything is going to have a suck up AI following orders... not sneaking around the system to add memorable scenes to Forest Gump disobeying the bean counter's "artistic" vision.

2. Cable TV is not great and they make you buy channels you don't watch (or hate or are actively destroying the USA.) but the cable model with ads funded tons of TV shows that were good and had niche markets. Now the whole business model is shot, TV shows of the past are not possible; just some on broadcast TV or the HBO model (also might die.) Youtube shows make no money and have to beg for donations just to fund a tiny staff without stability or capacity to produce much. So now you have tons of choice and is it really cheaper?? I know people who pay as much or more now than before and they don't rave about quality improvement - plus they admit to watching a lot of old content from before "modernization."

The real problem: People are overly entertained. We are amusing ourselves to death. You shouldn't see so many videos that everything is a rehash. That said, if you pick the best of every plot or genre, we don't need any more new content if you consumed it in moderation. One thing I've noticed in decades in education is that we have far fewer people with actual hobbies. Pure consumption is not a hobby. Get a hobby and you won't have time to see all this content slop... and it was slop before AI started learning the patterns that was turning it into slop already.

Do they retain all their training data? can they store all that? - i thought they were using all the internet and massive piracy?

The web is being polluted with slop so.... I would think China could get around all copy-protection and have an advantage in data collection outside of the slop invested parts of the web. If the USA AI corps were not violating the law, they'd be trying to scrape from China's bots who don't have their legal limitations... Is the old web even that valuable to mine in the 1st place? From what I've read these AI are pretty amazing when reduced to a relatively small domain data set; like all journals and books on 1 topic. Have you not tried to research something in depth on the web and found it to be severely lacking compared to books and journals?? Even online lectures are just highlights from textbooks... Well, when you look to the book... I've spent years reading on the web on a topic for entertainment then tried a book only to find it had everything I learned all in 1 concise place that would have taken a fraction of the time and effort... and without all the filtering and correcting of know-it-all blowhard slop and that was before we automated windbags with AI.

Tech makes things worse. It's like a drug. Opioid... It has targeted controlled good use cases but outside of that it's bad stuff. Everybody's answer to the problems it creates is to get more tech...at at least suffer until the next update/version... People were already getting more stupid, especially in the USA now we have AI and already we have studies showing it does just that... If you think things are stupid now...

With a 15% drop in PhDs ,science going down hill , and CS people leaving or souring on the evil of the corps here... I think these tech bros are quite self inflated as to their importance and how close they are to the end game. They are not going to get their huge break-thru monopoly they are racing towards like mad which looks more like a cover for a Ponzi scheme hoping to become a real business before it collapses. 80% of the effort is for the last 20%. They are probably not even at the last 20% and even then, their "AGI" could take centuries to get the last 5% of it (if you can even measure it well enough know when you are at 95%... or even at 80% progress. Assuming, you know what 100% even is!)

Boomers blame everybody else; it's the American way (for generations anyway.)

There is no point in arguing with a boomer; a minority of them were ok and somehow still can't admit their generation really should be called the ME generation. Not that us gen-X are a lot better...(but we are better.)
Starting with the boomers we should call the following century "the century of the self." like the documentary by the same name. I suggest you watch it. 4 part mini series.

It's going to end with Trump who represents the peak of selfishness; a fitting end of that century... a bit early but the clear transition will noticed by 2040 with it beginning slowly this year already. So not a fully century. Rome didn't fall in a day, it took like 350 years with plenty of debate as to which things and turning points etc. So they took longer than the USA existed. Some people ...like a third won't even know the USA collapsed out of denial; it'll have to fall at Germany extremes and even then, they might have had a hard time accepting failure if they didn't have most of those cultists die off -- fighting to the death, literally.

Anyhow, the broader picture is in the docu-series. Plus you do realize political control of that generation has been going on almost since they could vote...